We Tried Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 and It’s Exactly What You’d Think: BRUTAL

What we can tell you is that it is absolutely spectacular, graphically, that what we had seen in the trailers and that you can see below in our gameplay is totally real. It all looks huge, and the number of Tyranids, the equivalent of the Zerg in Warhammer 40K, is worth noting. It is difficult for me to describe a game that puts so much on the screen with this ordered chaos of enemies, allies and enormous scenery. But I must also say that, since I have the first Space Marine relatively recently, this one is very similar to the previous one. In other words, if you are looking for this spectacular action experience without differentiating RPG elements or the pretension of being GOTY, welcome. Saber Interactive created a perfect AAA, knowing that it did not have the budget for it. It simply knew how to push the right buttons.

The combat is great, but it can get repetitive after a while.

The core of this action design is combat and how it works. The weapons feel heavy, damaging and powerful, as they should be in an Ultramarine.only the classic Bolter and its explosive ammunition are enough for us, but the magic begins with the use of the Chain Sword or one of the melee weapons. We will have the ability to do combos, executions and even critical hits with the pistol, but also to block, parry and dodgegenerating a very fun combat dynamic, which in our case, did not tire us at all, in fact, we asked for more.

But how it plans to keep players with the already announced online levels or climb in Operations mode, both alone and in cooperation, gives us uncertainty. Probably, we have not seen everything, and precisely In Operations mode we can choose between 6 different soldier subclasses, all with their own special moveswhich makes them complementary: Strategist, Assault, Vanguard, Bastion, Sniper and Heavy.

We will access these operations through the HUB in the form of a base, where we can go to the Armory, select a mission and take off in our ship to the next phase that we choose. This space can be shared by the players with whom we are in cooperation, being almost like a kind of private lobby. Each of these missions, of which we have counted 6, but there are probably more, will last approximately between 30 and 40 minutes, something quite acceptable, especially since the possibility of getting killed and having to start over will be there.

An important detail is that They recommend finishing the campaign early, as these Operations missions complete it.. In fact, during the campaign itself, it happens that another of the squads helps us destroy an essential part, which will allow Titus and his companions to continue their mission. A brutal idea to keep players hooked on Operations once the campaign is over.

And at this moment we take the opportunity to comment marine life and the armor systembecause it is precisely in Operations mode that we have sweated the most to complete them, with very tough waves even at the lowest level. The upper bar is life and this can only be recovered with stimulants, but the armor, which is represented by the three lower bars, will recover by itself if we do not receive damage for a long time … or with an execution, which will instantly fill us with a Complete. Precisely, these executions will emit scattered damage once finished, eliminating other smaller enemies around us.

Because to encourage us, it will be necessary the ability to modify our Navy with a wide selection of items, completely free and unlockablesince we do not know at the moment that the game will include microtransactions, beyond the unannounced future content. As we advance in level, we will obtain the possibility of improving the different classes with skills independently, so we will benefit from focusing on one of them, to unlock it as quickly as possible.