This is a good game. Mechanics are button masher, but its meant to be a power trip kinda game. Music is meh. Fun for what it is, which is being a big space marine cutting down aliens and heretics.

I want so desperately to recommend it.

But that price.

I know I bought this on sale, because I would have balked at that price otherwise.

The game was made in 2011. TotalBiscuit (RIP) reviewed it in a "WTF Is" video. Sega didn't even originally publish it. Sega owns the game because they bought the rights (And Relic) at a liquidation sale. To make it worse, the game is also broken. It crashes on launch. In the community discussion there is a post where they mention downloading a dll, then putting it in the game folder. This fixed the issue. For the price, it shouldn't be a thing. I am between wanting to blame the publisher for being greedy, or send some emails asking if someone at Sega fat fingered in a $60.

If the price were, like, $20 at most, I'd recommend Warhammer fans pick it up, in anticipation of the sequel coming soon.

For $60? I recommend saving your money until the sequel comes out, then buy that. Or buying Doom Eternal. Or buying a used Xbox 360 and Gears of War 3. Former is the evolution on this style of game, and the latter is where Space Marine borrowed from.

(If they have updated the price since this review, its a tenuous recommend)

Plays pretty similar to Gears of War, except instead of playing a big burly muscle man you are a big burly muscle man in a metal blue berry suit and there is no cover shooting mechanic. Also the game doesn't have Gears of Wars reload mechanic, but it does copy the shield mechanic from Halo where if you stay out of getting shot the shield will recharge. The game isn't very hard, my first play through was on the hardest difficulty and it wasn't much of a challenge. The game is more of a power fantasy I guess if you want to play as a giant blue berry killing orcs violently. I don't remember what I payed for this on sale, but SteamDB says the lowest it went for is 7.49 USD and for that price it's definitely worth it. The way the player character moves around and how he dodge rolls feels very similar to Gears of War.

Also there is a multiplayer scene for this game which I haven't checked out, but I would imagine its very small. But there is a discord for it probably where people gather to play online matches, regardless I recommend this game for its single player campaign.

I can't wait for the sequel to this to come out.

Leaving a short overview.

For one, considering you're a space marine, you aren't able to withstand many attacks. You die way too easily. Even with the shield upgrade you get later on.

The game gets repetitive too. Only toward the end do they try to change things up, and that gets annoying in its own way, with a certain enemy who can singe you in probably 10 seconds.

The environments are amazing, though closed off, and empty in areas you can explore. The story and characters are nothing to write home about, and got/were pretty dumb. Captain titus is just very bland and is just a generic "good guy", which doesn't really work in (what i'm constantly told, but don't see in most GW 40k media) a dark fantasy universe.

The major highlight of the game was the sound design. The chunky sounding guns and fight sfx raised my testosterone while playing by a few NG. The gunplay was fun at times too.

Those few positives don't outweigh the negatives for me, and now that the price has been increased to SIXTY DOLLARS, I cannot give this a recommendation.