True Space Marine console reveal

Its not been a month and the footageI dug up of Space Marine from THQ has become relevant again.

They have ‘officially’ launched the game for all to see what it is they are doing and to get an idea of how it looks.

I’m not going to write too much about what you can see for yourself, but I will give you links to the various previews and video from the event:

- Video footage(be sure to watch the HD version!)
- IGN 360 first look
- EG preview

All good stuff!  The main things to note are that is is now being developed by Relic, the folks who gave us Dawn of War and is no longer in the hands of THQ Australia.  This can only be a good thing as Relic have a fantastic history with DoW/II and the 40k setting.  The game will contain RPG ‘elements’ such as a possible leveling system as well as gear or skill upgrades.  Multi-player of some kind is being looked into, be it co-op or vs or both, and may give you the chance to lead a squad of mates against the Ork horde.  It is console only. 

Yes, that last point is not something I’m that keen on but I think I understand why.  You could play God of War on PC, but it just wouldn’t be the same.  You can get hold of your mates for some Halo action or even Gears of War on PC, but why would you?  The consoles offer a much better platform to launch on for a number of good reasons, mainly being that this kind of game suits them nicely.  I’m sure the ugly head of piracy and quality control came into it too… not to mention the effort of having to port it across.

I hope we get more news about this over the coming months and see a release for this year.  Its going to be a great game I feel and can’t wait.  In fact I’ll go dust the 360 off and see if its still running now… cya!

Warhammer 40k: Space Marine 360 trailer

So after digging around the interwebs I discovered this little gem.  It seems to be a review in Spanish of a new title being developed by THQ’s Australian studio.

My first thoughts after watching the movie was Gears of War.  This was swiftly followed by ‘nice’.  The game looks pretty good even with the poor quaility of the vid and assuming this is quite an early version of the game gives me a great deal of hope that when released this will be a really great shooter.

Something to note is that this is under the wing of THQ, who are also the publishers of the 40k Online game.  This release will set a bench mark for quality.  I know they are being developed by different studios but Games Workshop will expect a certain degreee of polish to anything being released these days and if Space Marine is as good as I/we hope then you would expect that 40k Online would also be as good, if not better.

Forgetting Games Workshop for a moment and just looking to the fans I would expect that 40k Online will look as good as Space Marine could.  If SM ends up looking like Gears’ then I’d be well chuffed, and rather look forward to the idea of that level of awesome in an mmo world.

Any thoughts?