Summary
Play it if you are a 40K fanboy.
Review
In some Warhammer 40K games the space marines are the wimpiest unit around. In Space Marine you get to see how badass they really are. The campaign has you single-handedly saving platoons of regular military from the relentless orks.
The campaign story is pretty good, although I admit I'm only moderately into the lore. The voice acting is also good. Visually, the game holds up despite it's age. However the game isn't perfect and two flaws come to mind.
The first flaw is the complicated melee system. Some players will appreciate this and it's certainly fun to slaughter orks with a chainsword, but I found it clunky. Certain moves are required to pull of combos and special attacks. I kept having to pause the game to remember how to do an area attack vs. a power attack. And why is the power-attack a kick when you are holding a friggin' chainsword?
The second flaw is the difficulty of boss fights. Again, some people will probably love this feature. Personally, I find it frustrating. You try shooting it but it's immune. You try to slice it up, nope. You try your power attack, it takes a sliver of health. Really, I have to hit it 300 times with a power attack while dodging missiles and claws? No, wait, there is a tank over there I can drive. Oh, but it destroys the tank if I don't sneak into it. I'm not a fan of fights where you have to make 20 mistakes to learn the pattern to kill the boss. It's why I don't play a lot of platform games these days.
Eventually I quite playing because I got stuck on a boss. I probably should have read the spoilers but the plot wasn't quite compelling me. The game was awesome at first but once I got over being a badass it didn't hold my attention.
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