Review: Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine (Steam)

In Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine you are Captain Titus, a Space Marine of the Ultramarines chapter and a seasoned veteran of countless battles.

Pros:

• Really good high detailed graphics.
• 9078mb download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Steam cards.
• Controller support.
• 3rd person shooter gameplay.
• Graphics-aspect ratio, resolution, shadows, visual FX detail, post-processing, v-sync, ambient occlusion, and gamma.
• You play as an  Ultramarines captain and are aided by Blood Angels and face off against Orkz, Chaos, and chaos space marines.
• Collectible audio logs.
• Controller settings-on/off, 3 button layouts, 2 stick layouts, aim assist on/off, invert axis, and sensitivity sliders.
• Online-Vs/exterminatus/private/customizer/leaderboards/challenges.
• The campaign has five acts.
• Level select. Can choose an act, level then checkpoint.
• Can replay levels.
• 3 difficulties-easy, normal and hard.
• The Space marines and enemies are highly detailed.
• Takes a lot of inspiration from Gears of War. And a little of Halo what with the way the shield works and the noise it makes.
• Strong voice acting talent.
• The really good story accompanying the cinema level cutscenes.
• Weapons-you unlock them over time and get alternatives for each slot (four total).
• Toys-you get to use a jetpack and can do ground slam moves, or get a huge Warhammer (pun) and can do amazing levels of damage but lose the ability to use guns.
• Finishers-stun enemies and press a button to do an execution move which heals you but is also done in the pure slow-mo badass set piece. Each weapon does different executions.
• Quick weapon select with the d-pad.
• Pick up ammo and grenades from boxes.
• Aim down sights has a cool feature whereby when scoped on an enemy you see a skull icon, this is dab handy when your sight is compromised.
• Boss encounters.
• Impressive enemy numbers on the screen, a lot of set pieces play out like a Left 4 Dead set piece with the screen filling with enemies.
• Some environmental destruction.
• Very satisfying and fun end of game boss fight.
• The shooting just feels really meaty and punchy, from shotguns to snipers every gun is fun to use.
• For a lot of the game, you have AI partners with you.
• Mounted guns that can be ripped off.
• Great locations.
• Brutal melee combos.
• So much fun to play.

Cons:

• No cover system.
• Few instances where the button prompt wouldn’t come up.
• Had it where my gun wouldn’t fire at the start of select levels.
• You can still get hit and even die when doing the execution kill.
• Difficulty spikes with huge mobs appearing out of nowhere.
• A lot of grey, black, and brown colored environments.
• Can only get health from execution kills.
• Ammo can get quite sparse later on especially with shotguns.
• Only one grenade type.
• The last act minus the boss fight is just a case of the game throwing everything at you over and over.
• Levels can feel the same with a lot of empty corridors and obvious encounter rooms.
• No FOV slider, it can feel very close at times.
• The camera can go crazy in tight spaces.
• Bad checkpoint ING and restart points.