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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 review
After a rip-roaring first impression, the long-awaited sequel quickly runs out of steam.
Warhammer 40,000: SPACE MARINE 2
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 review
After a rip-roaring first impression, the long-awaited sequel quickly runs out of steam.
TBF I did consider this, in that it would get very samey and I suspect that is why they made a short campaign. I suspect a sharp discount on this game before xmas.
Also: Reminder that PCGAMER gave SW Outlaws 75%.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 review
After a rip-roaring first impression, the long-awaited sequel quickly runs out of steam.
Performance looks a little rough. Hopefully can tune it for a near 100fps on my 7800xt.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 performance analysis—Blurry upscaling, mushy graphics, and so-so frame rates
There's no ray tracing whatsoever, so you can't blame the middling performance on that.
They scored it lower than Star Wars Outlaws? Quite a lot lower, but then it is PC Gamer, who are a VERY pale shadow of what they used to be.PC Gamer don't like it:
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 review
After a rip-roaring first impression, the long-awaited sequel quickly runs out of steam.
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I think it depends how much they keep up with the content, Left 4 Dead, Vermintide 2, Remnant 2 , Helldivers 2 etc, were all games that would get samey, but all were superb titles, especially Vermintide 1 and 2 which was immense fun in co-op with all the added content over time. Space Marine 2 seems a lot like those in that its post release content/schedule is going to be as important , if not more so, as its release content.
Yeah but as you know, I wouldn't be playing co-op so only the SP pve content has any value for me. Which is why I'll wait until it's cheap.
Agreed, they said about the new star wars game "Star Wars Outlaws is the most Star Wars a Star Wars game has been"
TBF, they've done a good job with WarZ (IMO).
Oh yes, absolutely, if you have nobody to play it with then its going to have rather limited appeal, granted.
I used to love them, decades ago. PC Gamer and PC Zone were my go-to's, but one is essentially fallen to history and the other is about as much use for reviews now as 7GN is
I recall one of the writers was exceptional, Kieron Gillen. He is now a comic book author I believe.
I loved PC Gamer in the '90s
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Campaign is short, hopefully the mp gives most of the play time. Used to love playing horde mode on GOW2 and hopefully this scratches that itch.
I still don't get people saying the campaign is short or too short. 8-10 hours for a single player story mode used to be normal and fine.
I've not got time these days for 25+ hour games. Even 10 hours usually takes me a while to get through with not having loads of time for gaming.
I've not got time these days for 25+ hour games. Even 10 hours usually takes me a while to get through with not having loads of time for gaming.
I guess it varies from player to player, it seems that many are reporting that the campaign length is closer to 6 hours than 8-10 hours. I wouldnt say that 6-10 hours is "too" short per se, but for me it is at least "short". If its 6 hours then its entirely possible that when I start playing this evening I might well end up finishing the campaign before I go to bed tonight and for me, to complete a campaign in 1 day would be short. Even if I dont complete the campaign tonight, at 6-10 hours, I would certainly complete it by the end of the night tomorrow night.
However the flip to that, is that I have played many games where the campaign has been 8-10 hours but a good enough campaign that its been a good 8-10 hours, so a quality 8-10 hours is better than a meh 20+ hours.....though of course a quality 20+ hours would still be better than a quality 8-10 hours
Ultimately though, the draw of this game for me isnt the campaign anyway but the co-op, what the content there is like and how well/quickly it is added to, is the primary factor for me
If the campaign is 6-8hrs then I'll be happy, if the endgame operations or whatever allows me to dip in and out and just have a blast for 30-40mins whenever I want then that's also good enough for me. Can't see my playing the PvP, I do a little PvP on Destiny 2 but that's mostly because you're forced that route to get upgrades.