Warhammer 40000 Space Marine 2 Review (Steam)

Warhammer 40000 Space Marine 2 Review, Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes. Hold at bay the horrors of the galaxy in epic battles on far-flung planets with your deadly abilities, and devastating weaponry, and uncover dark secrets to drive back the everlasting night and prove your ultimate loyalty to humanity.

Warhammer 40000 Space Marine 2 Review Pros:

• Awesome highly detailed graphics.
• 64.6GB Download size.
• Steam achievements.
• Full controller support.
• Graphics settings – video adapter, target display, display mode, resolution, render resolution, upscaling resolution, dynamic resolution fps target, v-sync, brightness slider, motion blur intensity, and fps limit.
• It can be played with a mouse and keyboard.
• Quality settings – quality preset, texture filtering, texture resolution, shadows, shadows, ambient occlusion, reflections, volumetric, effects, details, and cloth simulation.
• An Officially licensed product.
• Accessibility options – controls set to toggle or hold, automatic attention focus, subtitles size, subtitles background, and subtitles speaker visibility, offscreen markers, Colourblind support, and mono sound output.
• Third-person action shooter gameplay.
• Can be connected to the PROS website for rewards.
• Uses Epic Games Store and you can link your account.
• Tutorial pop-ups as you play complete with a short video clip.
• String voicework.
• The location is big enough that you can explore and find secrets.
• Collectible voice logs can be found.
• Your load-out consists of two weapons and a grenade. You can fund and swap out weapons at will and also choose your loadout before starting a level.
• Ammo pickups are scattered around the world.
• The locations are jaw-droppingly detailed and vast.
• Blood will coat you and your armor as the blood splashes all over the place.
• The amount of Xenos on screen is really impressive, they climb on top of each other to scale walls, and they attack in huge numbers.
• In your central hub, you can get missions, talk with characters, and adjust your loadout.
• Powerful soundtrack.
• Helmet can be set to on or off.
• 2 to 3 Co-op multiplayer support.
• Full friend’s list integration.
• Operations are generally missions that use multiple squads, you can replay the mission from the operations board and play from the other squads’ perspective.
• Eternal War mode is the online PvP game mode – it has three game types – seize ground, capture and controls, and annihilation.
• The Armouring Hall is where you can choose your layout and appearance in between missions.
• You are free to run around the hub independently.
• Really cool cinematic when you leave the hangar.
• When waiting for the mission to load your team is sat in the ship with the mission shown on the back wall.
• If you’ve played the World War Z game before then the Xenos move and act like the zombies did in that game.
• In Single Player, you have two Ai party members, and you can give basic commands to them.
• The combo list for moves is on the pause screen.
• Guardian relics can be found and these allow you to resurrect yourself after going down.
• Tyranids can cause toxin gas to disperse and when it does the screen goes green and you attack and move slowly.
• Build up your ultimate move as it were where you go temporarily stronger and able to take more damage.
• Jet packs allow you to jump higher, and air dash. You can also do ground-pound attacks and shoot whilst hovering.
• Drop pods can be found that contain guns and melee weapons for you.
• You can ping locations leaving an arrow, and an icon, and it shows up in the chat window.
• Health-wise you have shields and a health bar, pick up stim packs for healing and shields come back after time.
• Pressing your Hud button will show your current objective, the mission marker, and any info on your party members.
• You do not need to have played the first game to understand what’s going on.
• A lot of very good memorable set pieces including a cool one where it’s all dark and you can only see the enemy as you shoot.
• Boss encounters.
• The story is a good one with a good final twist.
• I finished the game on easy in about 9 and a half hours.
• You can go down and be revived by teammates both real and Ai.
• Missions are replayable.
• Chaos enters the game (you see it in the trailers) and they can cause you to be exposed to corruption which makes you see things that aren’t there.
• Six classes to play as in the other modes – Tactical, Assault, Vanguard, Bulwark, Sniper, and Heavy. Each has a unique ability and initial load out.
• Customizable armor from buying the color set of a particular chapter LIKE BLOOD Angels or DARK angels, to an individual painting of armor, logos, etc.
• Each class has its own perk tree comprising of core, team, gear, and signature abilities and upgrades.
• Unlock and equip armor sets.
• Earn exp for each weapon you use to unlock masteries and skins. If a weapon can be used on multiple classes then progress carries over.
• Three load-out slots for each class.
• I didn’t realize until near the end that any green box with the Imperium logo on it can be broken for a chance of ammo and or grenades dropping.
• Different grenade types from frag to shock to bombs with a detonator.
• Operations change the difficulty choice to threat levels – minimal, average, substantial, and ruthless.
• New levels in operations as you are doing diffraction orders.
• In operations, you get an armor boost pick-up to temporarily increase your armor amount.
• Characters do callouts.
• Operations are a lot more intense and varied than the campaign.
• At the end of an operation you get exp based on objectives, and what kills and types of kills you did.
• The game ramps right up once you finish the campaign.
• Ammo and loot are shared between everyone.
• High and low levels can play together.
• Perks unlocked from the tree have to be equipped which allows for more control over your character build.
• Unlock and equip new helmets.
• You can do trials where you get a load of bonus rewards and unlocks for mastering your class.
• When matchmaking you can still roam the hub (battle barge) and do things like edit your load out and edit your character.

Warhammer 40000 Space Marine 2 Review Cons:

• Long initial load time.
• Uses and has to install parts of the Epic Games store service for multiplayer.
• The controller can be a pain to set up and you need to disable the steam input on the controller for it to work, remember that big picture mode and normal steam is a seperate instance so changing it in one will not make it work in the other.
• Loading resources at the start can be long.
• Does a lot of black screen transitions.
• The AI is very basic, they don’t ever do executions, they like to just storm ahead and don’t offer much support.
• I didn’t like the final fight as it was very dragged out.
• Levels do feel very long with obvious filler.
• The second half of the campaign is very tired and doesn’t have the urgency and fear of the first half. The story dies down a lot as does the sequences.
• The game has a habit of changing your weapons to fit the cutscenes and then leaving you with the new weapons.
• You cannot edit or create your own space marine face or change the gender.
• Operations won’t allow you to set the room as private or have AI only for solo play.
• Cannot pause the game in operations and PvP.
• The AI you get in operations are random and they are always Ultramarines.
• You have to play as an Ultramarine amd as a Dark Angel this is not right.
• You don’t get any notification that players have joined or left your game.
• Operations allow anyone so you can have a load of high and low players together which can be good and bad.
• Had a few games where teammates knew what they were doing and just ran off.
• I can see a lot of chargeable DLCs it is all cosmetic but there is a lot and it sucks if it’s for your favorite chapter.
• The saving and editing of characters is not straightforward, it always seems that you cannot quickly add a set or design to other classes.
• I had to set up my character for each of the modes.

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Warhammer 40000 Space Marine 2:

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Developer: Saber Interactive

Publisher: Home – Focus Entertainment

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