Is it harder to upgrade a game to HD when the main character doesn't have limbs? Only Ubisoft game creator Michel Ancel can answer that one, since his signature creation—fresh off the awesome Rayman Origins—gets a shinier PS3 re-release this week. Other notable happenings inlcude a whole passel of Final Fantasy games…
Until recently I was under the impression that Warhammer 40,000 was a tabletop war game played mainly by bookish and bearded nerds in comic shops and out-of-the-way conference rooms at sci-fi / fantasy conventions.
Relic Entertainment has proven time and time again with its Dawn of War real-time strategy franchise that it has a deep respect for Warhammer: 40.000. Does that respect extend to the third-person shooter?
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is an action shooter with weight. And that weight doesn't come from just the screen-shaking heft of the marines you play, it also comes from the deep history of the nearly 25-year-old franchise
While its big, burly characters make it look like it wants to be Gears of War, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine's core tenant is distinctly un-Gears-like: Cover is for the weak.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is a big, bone crunching action game
Earlier today, a post on the official forum for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine said that cooperative multiplayer for the game would not be available at launchand would be added into the game 30 days after launch "give or take." The post has since been removed, but publisher THQ has yet to confirm any plans or…
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine is still a big, thunderous shoot 'em up mixed with Ork-eviscerating action. Not much has changed here: Space Marine is booming, bloody violence in the most unpleasant of alien environments.
THQ's third-person shooter Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine would be pretty boring if you were only fighting the Ork forces. Developer Relic Entertainment mixing things up by introducing the forces of Chaos, the original mixer-uppers.
THQ today detailed their release plans for a half-dozen games, including Red Faction Armageddon which is now planned for a May 2011 release day.
The Warhammer 40,000 universe's descriptive tagline—"In the grim darkness of the far future, there is only war"—does not sound like a cheery fantasy in which many of us would like to find ourselves.
The PC will still be alive and thriving in the year 40,000, it seems. THQ is adding Windows-based PCs to the list of platforms it will support for the upcoming Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, due in "early 2011."
