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Embody the superhuman skill and brutality of a Space Marine. Unleash deadly abilities and devastating weaponry to obliterate the relentless Tyranid swarms. Defend the Imperium in spectacular third-person action in solo or multiplayer modes.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is a warhammer 40k, action and third-person shooter game
developed by Saber Interactive
and published by Focus Entertainment.
Released on September 09th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 17 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Czech, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian and Thai.
It has received 162,585 reviews of which 134,739 were positive and 27,846 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (1903 min)/11 64-bit
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X / Intel Core i5-8600K
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 6 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 580 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 75 GB available space
- Additional Notes: SSD required. 30 FPS in 1920x1080 with "Low" preset.
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Space Marine 2 is a very good game that falls short of being truly great. Story / Campaign. A solid solo or coop experience, a little short (six hours a think) looks good and is very (modern) Warhammer 40k - However the meat of the game isn't here.... PvP Tacked on mode, quick bit of fun but some weird balancing (and no team balancing) taints the experience. PvE - Operations / Siege / Strategems This is the meat of the game, two factions Tyranids & Chaos: Tyranids 9/10 - Look great and feel fantastic to fight, melee or ranged. Literally only objections are: -Zoanthropes who have a buggy eye beam attack which can double hit you and hit you through walls. -Spore mines, have an incredible tendency to just nuke you from nowhere at certain times. Feels quite cheap. Chaos 7/10 - Chaos is just nowhere near as fun to fight. No blood and guts feedback, endless ranged poking. Chaos marines standing there shooting you while you hit them in the face. I would say 80% of my runs are Tyranid missions. Chaos has gotten better to fight over the game's lifetime. Mechanics Dodge / Parry & Gunstrike - I really like the implementation of this in Space Marine, it's not too hardcore but leaves plenty of room for skill expression. You need a mix of the two to survive and thrive. A criticism is that roll spamming is too effective and teaches new players bad habits. Gunstrikes (where you get a "critical" pistol attack animation after a dodge or parry) are fantastic. Health system & Contested HP - When you take health damage you have a small window to do damage to regain it. This is to promote Doom-esque aggressive play. Sadly it feels like the developers are determined to make this mechanic frustrating for players. So many things prevent you from regaining contested HP unless you have certain perks for your characters. It's deeply frustrating to land a powerful melee attack and watch your contested HP barley regain. This forces players into picking certain perks & (ranged) weapons that can actually get you your contested HP back."Healing" is really quite rare, especially on higher difficulties. I actually like this implementation and just wish contested HP was a little better. Executes & Armour - Your other defensive tools, certain actions give you execution I-frames and also restore Armour. These animations looks incredible and are great fun. This combines for a fantastic ranged & melee experience. Getting better at the game and working up the difficulties feels great. Look & Sound This game has phenomenal sound design, Only criticism is that the warning sound for "you need to dodge this attack" or "you need to parry this attack" are too similar. Overall the sounds of combat are just incredible the parry noise, the gunstrike noise, the noises each enemy makes. Wow. The game looks incredible, especially the marines themselves. The free camera while you're performing an execution lets you really admire how good the games looks in motion. 10/10. Customisation One of the big draws to this game was the cosmetic customisation of your character/classes in PVE. Yes, you might need to buy some DLC to get juicy parts, but overall it has been a joy to build up my own roster of Space Marines. Now we come to the main flaws in the game: Key criticism 1 - Matchmaking, the "hub" & loading screens The "actually getting into a game" experience is really, really poor in Space Marine 2. The "hub" where you change your character and matchmake takes forever to load in and out of and this game does A LOT of loading in and out. >Load the game > Wait to main menu to load, press enter, wait for it to load >Press continue, wait to load >Get to hub, matchmake >Load into a lobby >Wait for everyone to get to the load area >Load mission (Skippable cutscene) >Load screen >Intro cutscene This is if you don't have people AFK in the hub, host migrations etc. It really is very painful and impacts the experience. The game is littered with these little UX annoyances (All cutscenes require all three players to skip them and you have to hold down the enter key for x4 times as long as necessary to skip). For me this is an objective and fundamental flaw of this game. It wastes your time and is painful. Key criticism 2 - Bugs & janky mechanics I've said above that when you are in the flow of the combat loop the game feels incredible. The flip side are the things that break this loop. On higher difficulties mistakes are severely punished, which is good, but certain mechanics are see you lose massive chunks of your HP or flatout die in an instant. -Zoan eye beams are deeply frustrating and countless time have nuked me through a wall or other substantial cover, regularly do "double damage" which will oneshot you at higher difficulties. -Spore mines are an utter nightmare, you can get rid of a hundred of these but then one will just pop near you are goodbye to a massive chunk of your HP. -"grab" mechanic; certain enemies can grab you from an ambush attack. Often this is avoided but occasionally one will pop up while you're in an animation etc. Once grabbed there is a QTE which after 200 hours I still dont understand and occassionall will just see me die despite doing the inputs. Essentially unless helped you just lose your HP. Feels awful for the player. -Chaos terminator minigun & krak missiles. Overwhelming ranged attacks with limited counters. Although this is typically only a major issue of higher difficulties when you fight large groups. The above is a bit of a moan but it is so so frustrating to fight your way through a massive horde, come out without a scratch, feeling incredible. Next fight a spore mine nukes you from behind. Conclusion If you like Warhammer 40k & Spacemarines this is a wonderful game. If you want a solo or coop PVE experience that requires a bit of skill but isn't too hardcore this game is a fantastic fit. Yes, there are frustrating aspects which stop me from labelling this a truly great game but the core experience is so so good. The last brother standing cleaving through a horde of Tyranids, dodging, parrying, respositioning & weaving between execution animations while your dead brothers cheer you on. Wow....
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This review was written during the release of the Horde update, around 30th of June after I had some experience with it. I've written this review of each part of the game. == Campaign == Short and to the point. Continues a few hundred years after the first game. You have two enemy factions and both are devastating and different enough. The story is you visiting the mothership, talking and taking in some lore parts and then going on missions that seemingly are impossible. Intertwined with the campaign are the co-op missions that an away-team does. You can do these missions too online with others and earn experience in the various classes. But about that later. The main campaign has very little freedom in terms of what weapons you carry or what ability you have. You're tied to Titus the entire run. That's fine and the campaign serves it's purpose and has a good ending. You have a few collectibles along the way but nothing else. A linear shooting experience that ends and leaves you to go explore the other aspects of the game: co-op and player versus player. == Co-op Mode == Mainly consists of 9 or so missions with difficulties going up from super easy to damn near impossible dice roll games. I would say the last 3 difficulties are the real normal, hard and impossible and everything before that most would avoid. The playerbase is rather small, even with cross platform, that all the limiting factors can sometimes mean you can't even find players at certain hours of the day. Even with quickplay and choosing Ruthless which I believe is the most common played difficulty mode because it's not too hard and gives the best rewards. Leveling in this mode takes forever since there's a prestige mode that goes up 4 times for each class and there are nearly 10 classes in the game. I've forgotten exactly how many, but they boil down to two categories: melee focused or ranged focused. Melee focused come with some defenses, but mainly the Bulwark class feels the best designed for later difficulties. As you get higher and higher you will challenge higher difficulties but don't be surprised that you'll never get a full combo off after a certain threashold and the game will boil down to counters, gun strikes and parries online combined with ranged combat. I've only managed to max prestige 2 classes in nearly 100 hours of game time and this is me repeating ruthless over and over again, doing whatever missions others are doing. The difficulties beyond that like Lethal are a dice roll if the mission will even be successful as the damage sustained seems to go up 4x times. == Horde mode === Newly released this comes with only two difficulties: normal and hard. Normal being insane beyond stages 15 with just the sheer number of enemies that flood your screen and hard being the absolute insane mode where only prestige 4 max'd out and optimized builds can survive. The resources you get don't feel meaningful because it's just health and ammo you have to invest it into and the others don't seem to make much of a difference. A dreadnaught is at best a distraction and gets stuck on map geometry and the other troops get tramped in seconds. I've yet to see anyone buy the buffs because of how expensive they are and they only last 5 minutes. Doesn't help that a single run rewards you with almost nothing. Same things as before and some recolors of pre-existing skins. Your average run can take up an hour of non-stop near-wipe moments only to get a single red skin of a weapon you might not even use. The experience is meaningless for those doing hard mode because they are max rank anyway and currency loses meaning quickly too, not to mention upgrade chips. In short: Horde mode does add some new challenge but it rewards you with LESS than what the campaign reruns would and doesn't allow you to be low level. If you try to level using the horde mode you're going to have a really bad time. == PvP Mode == I've only tried a few games and I can't give a review of this mode. The arenas seemed small and since it's entirely separate from the PvE campaign you pretty much have to start from level 1. I'm guessing it takes hundreds of hours to get anywhere meaningful and the PvP doesn't seem to have any real depth I don't see how this appeals to people. The same classes are there and there are many players playing it it seems but expect just a lot of non-communicating Russian players if you're from the EU trying the PvP mode out. It's a nice extension to the game and perhaps something to jump into once you're done with the base game and PvE, but I saw no real depth in it. You see someone? Shoot. Oh he has a better gun? You lose. Rinse and repeat 10-20 lives. == DLC == It's all cosmetic and it's kind of the bad greedy cosmetic type. Very expensive class-exclusive armor pieces that I wouldn't recommend buying unless you get them on a massive sale. That's about it. Even colors are locked behind DLC etc. and it's what it is. Not a fan. Not buying it unless they go down to 2€ / 2$ a piece or all together in a bundle for 10€. Just not worth my money as they add nothing to the gameplay. == Conclusion == The campaign and PvE of this game has had me entertained. The various guns and their perks combined with various classes together give enough wiggle room that you want to try a different build one more time. The armor rewards are also fancy and there's a lot to customize. It's a shame there is massive oversight in certain parts of the game, like no way to test builds in an arena and no damage numbers to see the effect of your perks. You just have no idea if one perk is better than another without locking them in and going through a 5 minute loading screen (waiting on console bros) and 20-30 minute mission just to test them out. Melee combat can also be very clunky at times. The game is 100% designed console first. Your character lunges at random enemies on PC unless you hold your WASD keys in the direction you want to go. Gun strikes and parries are also a must to learn and require skill. However especially in the horde mode with 10 big mobs on you a simple dodge will force you into a gunstrike and the animation for it twists your POV, blocking a possible other attack coming. I would even say that most deaths for veteran players come from this stupid camera angle twisting that you can't disable. You get locked into a gun strike and an enemy hits you from behind or behind your character and next thing you know you're stunlocked to death. Oh and there's plenty of dying from full health too from a surprise attack and sometimes the sound and effect that's supposed to warn you of a pending attack just forgets to trigger. So in short you get blinded by dumb camera, stunlocked by excess mobs and locked in a strike animation you didn't want to do. This can cause endless frustration for those trying to get better in the game and higher ranks. == Recommendation == The game is stunning, has a good story and enough leveling and stuff to keep you entertained at least 40-50 hours. 100 if you like to complete things and love the lore and universe. There's plenty here to collect and immerse yourself in and frankly Warhammer 40k has had some good games recently and Space Marine 2 is the "console friendly" game that even PC gamers can enjoy for a while. Neutral recommendation.
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My character doesn't shout "Rock and Stone" when I click the right thumbstick on my controller, but otherwise a beautiful game. Maybe could use more levels for multiplayer
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The Emperor has provided us with everything we wanted, brothers. Enjoyable story campaign with great visuals, even better PVE operations & fun PVP - very rarely you'll get to experience the whole package in a single game in today's time. And it's executed quite brilliantly as well. I just wish they could make the gameplay of the campaign as varied & customizable as the Operations mode. Ops are just thousands times more fun. They had the system implemented already, but didn't do it for the campaign. At least, community mods have this covered. And glad to see the devs supporting mods officially as well. Also, we need FOV slider badly. Ultrawide 21:9 support is at least serviceable, but 32:9 support is a complete whack. Edit: FOV slider has been added on Patch 6! Hallelujah!
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I never played the first Space Marine or any Warhammer game, but that doesn’t stop you from enjoying this one. Chainsword go brrr, Bolter go boom. The Tyranids? They never stood a chance and they never learn. For the Emperor! In His name, we bring righteous fury. Only in death does duty end. Faith is my shield, wrath is my sword.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is currently priced at 59.99€ on Steam.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 received 134,739 positive votes out of a total of 162,585 achieving a rating of 8.20.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 was developed by Saber Interactive and published by Focus Entertainment.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is not playable on MacOS.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is not playable on Linux.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There are 17 DLCs available for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. Explore additional content available for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 on Steam.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
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Saber Interactive
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Focus Entertainment
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09 Sep 2024
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