![]() ![]() If you don't already own Space Marine, the Anniversary Edition is on sale on Steam for $20/£14/€15 until September 30. We also scored it 82% in our 2011 review. The Space Marines were around before the imperial cult, so most space marines don't worship the emperor, just think of him as the best person ever. I suspect the number of Chapters embracing full divinity is a smallish minority, but their numbers have probably grown as the End Times approach. ![]() It nails the fantasy of being a space marine." Given the fact that many, if not most, Marine recruits in 40k hail from worlds where the Ecclesiarchy is dominant, a slow drift toward Emperor Worship over 10,000 years makes sense. Each fight reminds you this is what you're genetically engineered to do, and early on there's a quiet moment where you enter an Imperial Guard base and wounded soldiers several feet shorter than you look up in awe. "You regain health by killing bad guys up close, charging forward with your chainsword or slamming down out of the sky thanks to the best jetpack ever. Despite its age and inherent silliness, Space Marine is a very good shooter-it holds the number-three spot on our ranking of every Warhammer 40K game ever-and not just because the setting is so violently over the top: The story is a little simplistic, but it eschews the cover-based shooter trends of the time and instead all but forces players to wade into the fray like the killing machines they're supposed to be. ![]()
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