In the Emperor's Name!

A game that I have had my eye on for a long time now is Space Marine. While I loved the Dawn of War series (I mean the first ones because the second one sucked...) I found they lacked that visceral edge that Space Marine appears to have.

I haven't had the chance to play the full game yet so I can only base this off of playing the demo.
You start the game with a basic set of weapons, Bolt Pistol and Chainsword (which are awesome by the way) and you are pretty much thrown into the story, and more importantly into the hordes of enemies.

The first time you fire your Bolt Pistol, you feel like You are ACTUALLY FIRING your Bolt Pistol. The sound is absolute perfection, there are plenty of war games that have the sound of a gun and that's great they sound like guns. This sounds like a Bolt Pistol, a fictional futuristic weapon that fires a uranium slug.
Yea... That's how good they made it sound...

The combat in general is really good as it throws you, a somewhat indestructible Space Marine, against Hordes of weaker Orks. This lets you throw yourself into the fights and really get into the action, rather than the duck and cover combat that seems to have become the standard for most shooters...

The game is pretty much linear as far as I can tell, with a few side paths that may contain ammo or collectables.

The voice acting is very good. The graphics while not amazing are quite detailed and the blood and gore while fighting makes up for any lacking graphics...

Overall it is a quite enjoyable hack and slash/third person shooter game and it is even more enjoyable for someone really interested in 40k. However I don't know if it is worth the asking price right now I would say to definately play the demo if you have any interest in it and then decide for yourself if it is worth the investment.

I will cut you...

So I started playing Assassin's Creed today. I finished the first level and then began on the first leve- wait what? So it seems the game designers forgot to make anything after the first level so they just re-skinned everything instead. The main downside of the game is just the repetition and every now and again some very stupid AI.

I would say the story is fairly good, not amazing but good, but that is not why you would play the game. The story, to me at least, was just slowing down my actual enjoyment by taking me out of the fun world I got immersed in.

However once you get past the horrendous repetition and annoying cut-scenes, you step into a fantastic world of stealth kills, extortion, free-running and amazing scenery. When you stand atop the highest building you can find and just look out across the scenery you feel like you are actually there.

I found the combat system to be really enjoyable, you can strike and riposte and it flows quite nicely. However this is where the bad AI can sometimes kick in. You can find yourself up against five enemies, all of whom stand back politely while you kill them one at a time...

Other than this Assassin's Creed is a really enjoyable game, not one you would play for extended periods of time however but one that you can waste a couple of hours on and not feel cheated.