What’s quick, candy, dumb as a sack of Imperial servo-hammers and free for the subsequent 48 hours? Relic’s Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, that’s what. For the subsequent two days you may grab this neat little third-person shoot n’ slasher completely free via Humble, and preserve it ceaselessly, though they do ask that you just join their publication in alternate for the products.
Despite Alec’s faintly damning praise, Space Marine might be the perfect non-strategic Warhammer 40,000 game round. When all you’ve received is a big stompy swimsuit of energy armour, a sword that can also be a chainsaw and a bloody nice gun, each downside begins to appear to be a Space Ork. Either that, or there’s simply hundreds of the inexperienced gits to smack. Go on, then.
Originally launched in 2011, Space Marine has aged effectively, because of its chunky, maximalist techno-gothic aesthetic. It additionally helps that it’s a stable little shooter paired with a Dynasty Warriors-ish melee fight engine. You’ll be stabbing, kicking and punching Orks simply as typically as you’re plugging them within the face with outsized space-bullets. It’s not a very lengthy or troublesome game, however that’s most likely for the perfect. It has a restricted bag of tips, and their amusement worth ought to final about so long as the single-player marketing campaign.
While the Steam store page for Space Marine might checklist an unlimited heap of DLC, be at liberty to disregard it. It’s all for the multiplayer aspect of the game, which sadly by no means received a lot love when Space Marine was first launched. While this giveaway may give participant numbers a short enhance, I’d advocate saving your cash until you’re a real grimdark die-hard. Just benefit from the trip. It’s loud, silly and it’s persistently pleasurable.
You can grab your free Space Marine here on Humble. The keys will self-destruct on September 15th at 10am Pacific until activated, so no hoarding them as digital stocking-stuffers.
