W40k: Space Marine, aka GoW

[sea]

Meh, I lost interest in this game when trailers started coming out and they made clear they had pretty much stripped out the majority of RPG elements in favour of turning it into Gears of Warhammer. It'll probably be a decent game but I've had enough of shooters to last a lifetime.

 

[Awor Szurkrarz]

Tell me more about guardswomen.

IG has mixed gender but guardswomen figures aren't sold outside special characters.

 

[Dire Roach]

That purity seal is written in English instead of Latin. Hella gay.

 

[Paperclip]

Apparently space marines aren't taught proper firearms handling.

 

[Ulminati]

Why's it always about spess mehrens. I don't know much about the 40K lore but compared to the other armies they look lame as hell.

Space marines ARE 40k, they're basically GW's call of duty that keeps the company afloat.

There was a time when that little 10man box of tactical marines accounted for 50% of all their revenue.

This. Many moons ago, when I was a young and impressionable teenager, I played 40K.

I had a nice Ulthwé army and some tyranids, but when I took them to my friendly local gaming store to find opponents, there was an 80% chance of whoever I played against fielding some form of Speez Mahreen army. There's something about them that appeals immensely to the 13-16 year old mind, and those make up the biggest segment of players.

Also, for the same reason that pretty much every Modern or WW2 FPS features Kwanzanian soldiers because the Kwa find them easier to identify with, it's harder to sell a game to non-40K-geeks if what you're playing is recognizably (super)human. Fire Warrior tried to hook the weeaboos with their faggy animu-armor, but was a flop. Personally, I'd love to see an x-com-style TBS game where the player controlled a small group of imperial guardsmen (complete with a commisar to shoot grunts to restore morale). Sadly that isn't likely to happen, since 40K=speez Mahreens in the eyes of THQ.

That said, this looks like it might be a moderately entertaining buttonmasher. Depending on reviews, I may get the special offer versio nof this from Privateer Cove.

 

[Destroid]

Apparently space marines aren't taught proper firearms handling.

They also don't appear to be accurate size, unless that is a gigantic woman.

 

[Ulminati]

They also don't appear to be accurate size, unless that is a gigantic woman.

Must be a kasrkin

 

[ComradeCommissar]

Apparently space marines aren't taught proper firearms handling.

They also don't appear to be accurate size, unless that is a gigantic woman.

She'd have to be near 6.5 feet/2 meters to be around their (Minimum?) general height, so yeah, either pretty big or someone just didn't look into their SM stuff.

 

[AlaCarcuss]

http://www.vg247.com/2011/05/25/new-developer-diary-and-screens-released-for-wh40k-space-marine/

That is one big, mean muthafuckin mech.

 

[Darth Roxor]

She'd have to be near 6.5 feet/2 meters to be around their (Minimum?) general height, so yeah, either pretty big or someone just didn't look into their SM stuff.

High heels

 

[oscar]

That is one big, mean muthafuckin mech.

And that's one of the small ones

Wait until you see the walking cathedrals.

 

[Hamster]

Is it just me, or this game, like all others made since WH40k 3rd edition, just fails to capture the visual style properly?

 

[Destroid]

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

This game will suck because they didn't bring back Commi-motherfucking-ssar HOLT!

God damn! I wish the gaming companies who makes Warhammer games would show that guy some love, he was AWESOME in Dark Omen, and he was AWESOME in Final Liberation.

FFS! Instead of him, we'll probably get some kwazian turd who can't into acting. Fuck Kwazia.

 

[anus_pounder]

Commissar Holt.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

 

[larpingdude18]

http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/25/how-m ... rs-of-war/

 

[ComradeCommissar]

How many times can a brain-dead writer spout bullshit to appease masses of retards and slowly kill me inside?

Spoiler

Too damn many times.

Start with the over-sized armor and bodybuilder physiques of the marines.
Retarded, not even worth bothering with, totally must be a ripoff of Queers of War, fuckin pencil-neck SM rippin off teh Gearz.

The guns are huge and they feature a chainsaw blade that can be used to slice enemies in half, execution style, similar to the “chainsaw bayonet” of the Gears soldiers.
Because chainsaw weapons nevar existed before teh Gearz guise.

The guns shoot in a similar fashion and the Space Marines wield a big giant hammer that resembles the blasting hammers not from Gears of War but from Microsoft’s other sci-fi franchise, Halo.
Fuck you, don't even have to say anything, but how dare we want actual weapons from the universe to be present!?

The blood spatters are also quite similar
I mean gah bros, I shot that guy and like, he fuckin bled! Just like in Gearz!

When I asked the THQ folks about this, they immediately pointed out that this game was set in the Warhammer universe, which has its own rich and original lore.
lulz bullshitz rite guise?

Of course, since the THQ guys had a handy explanation of the difference so readily available, it seemed like they knew they were going to get asked that question.
At least they knew what kind of retard they'd likely be hearing lots from, gotta give them a hand for being prepared.

ABOUT TEH AUTHOR: Dean Takahashi is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked.

Get the fuck outta here.

 

[poocolator]

http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/25/how-many-ways-can-thqs-space-marine-game-rip-off-gears-of-war/

Sure, I understand this kind of homage happens all the time in video games.

Oh, man.

What an excellent troll.

 

[sgc_meltdown]

The blood spatters are also quite similar. The guns shoot in a similar fashion and the Space Marines wield a big giant hammer that resembles the blasting hammers not from Gears of War but from Microsoft’s other sci-fi franchise, Halo.

When I asked the THQ folks about this, they immediately pointed out that this game was set in the Warhammer universe, which has its own rich and original lore. In fact, this universe predates the existence of Gears of War, so you might argue that Gears of War copies Warhammer 40,000.

. The THQ folks also pointed out that their melee system, which includes the chainsaw weapon, works a lot better than Gears of War’s does. Gee, I hope so. If you copy someone else’s game, you don’t want to copy the bad parts.

In my own copycatting of Captain Renault’s famous quote from Casablanca, I have to say, “I’m shocked, shocked, to find that copycatting is going on here!”

 

[GarfunkeL]

Tell me more about guardswomen.

IG has mixed gender but guardswomen figures aren't sold outside special characters.

Wut? Since when? The only human women I remember from WH40k lore were either Bolter Bitches or working for Inquisition directly. Don't remember IG having women at all. Though I stopped following GW's stuff closely since the introduction of 3rd edition - if that was the one where squats got killed off?

 

[Overweight Manatee]

Apparently space marines aren't taught proper firearms handling.

For space marines proper firearm handling is having your firearm in your hand at all times

http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/25/how-many-ways-can-thqs-space-marine-game-rip-off-gears-of-war/

 

[racofer]

That gameplay video looks very similar to another recent "game" from you know who.

 

[Destroid]

Tell me more about guardswomen.

IG has mixed gender but guardswomen figures aren't sold outside special characters.

Wut? Since when? The only human women I remember from WH40k lore were either Bolter Bitches or working for Inquisition directly. Don't remember IG having women at all. Though I stopped following GW's stuff closely since the introduction of 3rd edition - if that was the one where squats got killed off?

By my recollection it varies by which planet the guardsmen are from. Some have mixed units, others separate the women, others are only men. I don't recall off the top of my head if the Cadians are an equal opportunity armed force, but being the 'vanilla' guardsmen I imagine they would be. They really did go generic for this game, Ultramarines and Cadian Shock Troops, how dull.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Tell me more about guardswomen.

IG has mixed gender but guardswomen figures aren't sold outside special characters.

Wut? Since when? The only human women I remember from WH40k lore were either Bolter Bitches or working for Inquisition directly. Don't remember IG having women at all. Though I stopped following GW's stuff closely since the introduction of 3rd edition - if that was the one where squats got killed off?

Gamesday 1998.

Basically there's few women because GW sculptors are terrible at them, "females" and "heroic scale" make for grotesque ogre-like women.

 

[Destroid]