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Review date: 11 October, 2011. Review by: Martyn Clayden Fancy playing as a steroid-enhanced muscle mountain of a hardass soldier that makes Arnie look like a wimp and use some state-of-the-art firepower to take on hordes of monstrous aliens? Well, ma...

Great attention to detail in characters and settings...

Repetitive killing in the middle stages of the game.

A bit like the hero Titus that you play, Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine is simple, straight forward and uncompromising - just load up your weapons, wade into a sea of Orks and destroy all comers as bloodily as possible...
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The Warhammer series has been around for decades, but this latest iteration fails to continue the proud tradition in any meaningful way...

Captures the scale of the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Visceral melee combat is immediately engaging. A huge suite of character customisation options in multiplayer.

Combat quickly becomes repetitive and can even prove frustrating. Predictable characterisation. Linear plot and linear level design.
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In the 41st Century, the only thing standing between the Imperium of Man and the approaching Xeno threat are the Space Marines, genetically enhanced superhuman warriors that form the heart of the Warhammer 40,000 (40K) universe. As Ultramarine Captain...

Action-packed single-player and varied multiplayer make for a polished and fun action game...
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The greatest strength of Space Marine is that it does such a great job of bringing the Warhammer 40,000 universe to life. Like Games Workshop’s dark future RPG and wargames, it presents a brutal, dystopian and ludicrously violent sci-fi world, in which...

Good mix of big guns and brutal melee combat, Superb rendition of the Warhammer 40,000 universe...

Action grows repetitive with too little variation, Stretches of dull scenery and uninspiring set-pieces...

There’s little truly original about Space Marine, and pacing and repetition hold it back, but it’s hard to deny the appeal of smashing orks to bloody chunks as an armoured walking tank. Add one - heck, two - to the score if you’re a fan...
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Videogames owe Games Workshop more than they're ever likely to admit - the archetype of the power-armoured sci-fi man-mountain has at least some of its origins in decades-old tabletop game Warhammer 40,000 (aka 40K). It's taken an awfully long time, bu...

Space Marine lays some excellent ground work for a Warhammer 40,000 shooter and offers some of gaming's most spectacular fights. It's too thin on the content to feel like the definitive 40K action game, however...
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Set within the Warhammer Universe, this game is a third person action title combining elements of melee fighting and shooting in what ultimately felt like a very uninspiring game that had so much potential and unfortunately really did little for me to...
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Take two staple ingredients of fantasy and science fiction, namely orks and space respectively, mix in a ten foot super soldier named Titus and some bone-crushing, brutally satisfying combat with both melee weapons and guns, and you have Warhammer 40 0...
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