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what's up guys Kevin here with tech pesantren dinner bringing you a review of Warhammer Space Marine for the Xbox 360 ps3 and pc now for those you who aren't familiar with the Warhammer universe it's actually been around for quite some time I was hearing a little chatter when the game first came out that it was being some sort of Gears of War ripoff because it involved bulky men with chainsaws war has actually been around since about the late 80s this concept is not anything new as far as the particular game and plot goes you play as a Space Marine which is basically the biggest kind of badass possible in the universe you were literally a walking tank of destruction that just kills everything in your path and that's exactly what the game is about now at first glance a lot of people think this game is an over the troll refute er in fact it's actually much more of a hybrid with action games I think some of the over-the-shoulder shooting elements of games like Gears or resident evil and then add in more melee elements of games like say God aboard Devil May Cry well you do have ranged weapons and a good write of them you get stuff like you know assault rifles a stalker bolter which is basically like an auto semi-auto sniper melts a gun which acts like a shotgun but with high heat that just vaporizes everything in your path you usually use these weapons more to thin out enemy numbers because the vast majority of enemies are melee oriented so it'll happen a lot of times is you just get a ton of people rushing you you take out as many as you can as they're closing the distance and then you just go to town then with melee weapons like a chainsaw sword or a giant hammer in fact the game is so focused on the idea of handling auto combat in melee that the health regen model itself actually focuses on this what happens is you have both a shield meter and a health meter the shield meter regenerates like it does in a lot of games these days where you stay out of combat long enough to come back your health on the other hand can only be recovered by using executions on enemies which can all be done in melee so you actually can regenerate your health faster by staying in the middle of the fray rather than trying to back out and stay in a safe position in other words the whole game tries to really employ emphasize the fact of you are awesome kill everything in melee and just be the biggest badass you can be the campaign really is the shining point of the game it focuses a lot on just having waves and waves of enemies against you while going through a very linear storyline I was great about twos the storyline doesn't just rush you into the warhammer setting and actually does a really good job of kind of slowly introducing you into different concepts and explaining things along the way so you're not just like I've never played Warhammer what the hell is going on they actually got a pretty good length action games go it takes around 20 to 25 hours maybe that's not a normal difficulty it's pretty easy for the most part with a few hiccups every now and then mostly due to either really large groups of enemies larger than normal or maybe because you just come L prepared for instance not having a sniper rifle on you when there's a ton of snipers in this particular stage or area you do have AI teammates they're not complete idiots it's not like they're in your way or anything but they also don't do a ton to help you out they'll occasionally shoot down some enemies they might do some mail executions but in general the game definitely places emphasis on you being the lead awesome factor of the team and taking care of the massive majority of enemies now there is an online multi-player mode focused on competitive team-based matches there are two different match types available C's ground which works like king of the hill where you're just holding locations as long as you can or annihilation which works like good old-fashioned deathmatch where it's just kill as many opponents as you can the game allows you to choose from three different class types which you can customize by leveling up there's tactical which just uses largest variety of weapons plays like the standard Space Marine in the main game there's also a heavy which uses large exploding weapons or rapid fire between guns and you just are really slow they can take a lot of damage and assault which makes use of melee weapons combined with a jet pack giving you a lot of maneuverability but not a lot of options of long range it's pretty fun to be honest I feel like the gameplay style of Warhammer 40k is a lot more appropriate for the more horde style kind of step you see in the campaign as far as team deathmatch goes it's fun but there are better multiplayer experiences in my opinion if you enjoy it great it gives you a lot of content for leveling up and customizing your character and kind of getting into it in the long haul but I just feel like there are better online multiplayer matches so be honest I was a little disappointed the game didn't feature some kind of horde mode or some way of handling kind of like a cooperative taking on large groups of enemies because that really is what made the campaign so fun was feeling how powerful you are against lots and lots of people and yet in online multiplayer it's you against other guys of the same type rather than just large massive hordes of weak enemies to take out so overall Warhammer 40k Space Marine is a really fun distraction of a game the single-player campaign is a ton of fun you feel really powerful even when the game is easy at times you don't feel tired of it because you're just too busy being so awesome and just taking down hordes of enemies and getting just power overwhelming as for the multiplayer like I said it's not the best it's enjoyable if you like it good for you if not you can skip over it and for those of you who are accusing it of being just a ripoff of Gears get over it it started in the 80s just because they made a video game now doesn't mean they're often ripping it off in fact it's not even the same kind of gameplay style compared to Gears 3 which just came out very very different that's our review of Warhammer Space Marine for the Xbox 360 ps3 and pc stay tuned later I'm going to give you guys my review of Dead Island finally surf with the leg guys and about this Friday or Saturday we'll have my review up for Gears 3 so check that out till next time I'm Kevin for TLD thanks for watching you