In retrospect, I probably should have got a better screenshot of one sexy graphical bug. But yeah, this picture sums up most of my thoughts about the game, so far it looks good, except for a few details.
So I got the demo today. I figured i'd wait for a few days after it officially came out, because GW seems to dislike the UK and thought they'd make it difficult for us to download it. Although I heard rumours that was Games fault, because they got upset that everyone loved Steam and forced Relic/GW to restrict access.
It's always hard to know what Relic are going to do with 40k games, when Retribution came out they made the came much more like Company of Heroes (a plus) but then decided to only make enough campaign missions for one race and forced all the campaigns to effectively be the same, with different models and voice actors.
But Space Marine feels fun, in the way that most hack 'n' slash games tend to be. Ranged weapons, perhaps because the demo only had a bolter/bolt pistol, felt insanely underpowered, I guess to make the melee feel even more impressive when one Chainsword stroke rips in half an Ork who's exact clone took 15 bolt rounds to the face.Maybe they'll deal with that when you can access more weapons. Jump Packs are as fun as they look, although getting the hang of it is difficult at first, mostly due to bugs and the fact the game froze randomly for 20 seconds whenever it felt like it was flowing too well.
But bugs are to be expected in a demo, and honestly it looks like a fun game. If the issues, most of which i'd say stem from it only being a demo, are ironed out it should be fun. It's just a shame it takes an extra 3 days to release a game in the UK compared to the USA.
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