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Waste of Time
posted by pswilliams986 (ROCKY POINT, NC) Jun 12, 2012
Member since Oct 2011
1 out of 2 gamers (50%) found this review helpful
There are so many great games this generation that middle of the road games like this aren't even worth the time it takes to play them. It's a decent game, but just decent. I feel that there's a new standard for quality in games since none of the one's I've played this generation are truly awful but many of them, like this, are average. It may be that game developers are learning to keep their games from becoming completely abysmal. Younger gamers will probably see games like the "bad games" while those of us who grew up with the games like Superman 64 will think of it as decent. My point: There is a new standard for quality and games like this just aren't worth playing even if we think of them as decent games. There are so many games in the third-person action genre that do a better job of it than Space Marine.
Graphics:
They're standard but it's the levels that really killed it for me. Every room of a level looks almost exactly the same as the last. And to top it off the levels are extremely generic looking. In close-quarter fights the camera tends to jump into first-person view for a few seconds accidentally.
Gameplay:
The only unique part about this game is that it tries to mix a hack n slash game like God of War with a third-person shooter like Gears of War. It fails at both and only manages to be a novelty for the attempt. The hack n slash parts are dulled by a lack of combos, you're basically just doing the same attacks over and over. And there's no cover system so the shooting aspect feels a little tacked on. The character feels clunky and slow which almost makes me think the developers intended him to feel like a tank. There are some good parts to the gameplay too; the brutal kills are actually pretty cool and there will be an entire army of enemies to fight in some portions of the game.
Story:
Generic and boring. The characters never say anything interesting and the enemies say the same things over and over. "Humans to kill!" Boring.
Graphics:
They're standard but it's the levels that really killed it for me. Every room of a level looks almost exactly the same as the last. And to top it off the levels are extremely generic looking. In close-quarter fights the camera tends to jump into first-person view for a few seconds accidentally.
Gameplay:
The only unique part about this game is that it tries to mix a hack n slash game like God of War with a third-person shooter like Gears of War. It fails at both and only manages to be a novelty for the attempt. The hack n slash parts are dulled by a lack of combos, you're basically just doing the same attacks over and over. And there's no cover system so the shooting aspect feels a little tacked on. The character feels clunky and slow which almost makes me think the developers intended him to feel like a tank. There are some good parts to the gameplay too; the brutal kills are actually pretty cool and there will be an entire army of enemies to fight in some portions of the game.
Story:
Generic and boring. The characters never say anything interesting and the enemies say the same things over and over. "Humans to kill!" Boring.
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