If you enjoyed this article or any more of our content, please consider our Patreon. If you missed out the first time around, the anniversary edition of the first game is now available on Steam, or via the old fashioned means of PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360. But it’s enough, at least in my eyes, to whet that appetite for more Space Marine action. Details have been kept close to Focus Entertainment’s chest, offering little more than what was shown the other day. We don’t want repeats of Horizon Forbidden West’s shenanigans. For an eye-watering £229.99 on Focus’ site, it had better come with an actual disk in that box. The set comes with the 8″ statue, a 64-page making of book, a decorative box to house it all and a steelbook copy of the game on chosen format. Featuring a rather large centrepiece in statue form, it shows our favourite lieutenant doing what he does best against a Tyranid unlucky enough to be caught. There’s A Collector’s Editionįor you lovers of physical media (myself included), there’s a downright swanky looking collector’s edition coming. It may be ported one day, but nowadays we have to accept that those older generational ports will begin to be phased out as games develop for the better. No listings for PS4, Xbox One or even the Nintendo Switch. The caveat appears to be that so far, it’s only listed for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S|X and, of course, PC. Yes, we shouldn’t take early footage as sacrosanct, but I have faith in Saber delivering (in keeping with the Space Marine religion theme). Granted, I thought the first one looked good, so it could only have gone upwards from there. I’m just going to come right out and say it: Space Marine 2 looks beautiful. Well, he’s had a whole game prior and years of intense, superhuman training to get good at that kind of thing. The trailer shows the lieutenant getting stuck right into the fray, cleaving aliens and landing headshots as if it were nothing. Space Marine 2 looks to retain that gameplay. It blended the two seamlessly, being able to get into the thick of it with a chainsword before switching to a Bolter on the fly. Whilst most third/person shooters treat melee combat as a secondary attack, Space Marine was different. Echoing old school Space Hulk sentiments, will there be a secondary antagonist this time around, or something bigger at play? With Saber’s skill at World War Z, it’ll be interesting to see hordes of Tyranids on screen at once. A hive-like creature, Tyranids attack in swarms and colonise planets en masse. This time around, it’s the Warhammer universe’s take on the Alien franchise’s… err, alien. However, it became apparent that this was the string-pulling of the aforementioned Nemeroth, a diversion for them to attempt to harness the Warp energy. The first game pulled a switcheroo on us, initially throwing an Ork invasion as the primary goal for the Ultramarines. Sadly, Mark Strong isn’t returning to the role, and Titus’ ordeal sees him busted down to the rank of lieutenant. The end of the first game sees Titus under custody of an Inquisitor, to determine if Titus is corrupted or something worse.įortunately for him, and us, the trailer marks his return, presumably cleared of any wrongdoing in the Inquisition’s eyes. An Ultramarine of the 2nd Chapter, Titus and his two comrades led the charge against the Ork invasion of the Forge World Graia.ĭespite beating the Chaos Lord Nemeroth, the driving force behind the invasion, Titus is “betrayed” as such by his Battle Brother Leandros for displaying an immunity to the Warp (the driving power behind Chaos). It passed many by, but to those devout enough, it was a blast.ĭevelopment duties have been handed to Saber Interactive (World War Z, Crysis remasters, SnowRunner) and published by Focus Entertainment ( A Plague Tale series, Evil West), it’s safe to say it’s in good hands.īut what is going on in Space Marine 2? Does it pick up where we were left hanging, or is it an entirely new chapter in the Space Marine Codex? Let’s have a look at what we know so far, and beware spoilers for the first game: Captain Titus ReturnsĬaptain Titus, originally voiced by actor Mark Strong (of Rock’n’Rolla fame), was the protagonist in the first game. Captain Titus’ debut didn’t break sales records, nor land insanely high critical review scores. The news that the 2011 action-shooter Space Marine was getting a sequel was the biggest surprise of The Game Awards 2021, to say the least.
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