Warhammer 40,000 Space Marines
This review is for the Public Interest and is the opinion of C.Ison only. No liability is accepted no actions inferred.
by C. Ison (aged 14)
The good points of this game are it is a third person shooter, and has an instant transition from shooting to close combat. In this game you play from the perspective of captain Titus, of the Ultramarines chapter. You are deployed to Forge World Graia, which is under siege from a fully fledged Ork invasion. Your job as a Space Marine is to find and secure the Titan war machines before the Orks do.
I myself am a fan of the tabletop experience, which is very different from the video game. War-hammer 40,000, or War-hammer 40k, is set in the grim darkness of the 41st millennium and humanity is in the dark age of technology, where they must use the remains of what they once had during the Golden Age. That is why man is forced to use primitive, but still highly effective, power armour. Titans are one of these remnants of the Golden Age, so to lose one in battle is unaffordable. Titans are colossal war machines made of adamantium, wrapped in fields of impenetrable energy, a true testament to the might of the Imperium.
Unfortunately, the Emperor of Man was mortally wounded during the Great Crusade, a time in which the Imperium was on a conquest to recover the Primarchs, sons of the emperor from which all Chapters hail. While the primarchs were being born, their birthing pods were spread throughout the known galaxy by the Chaos Gods. many were lost, but some landed on Imperial planets and were raised by the Imperium.
These were no normal men though, they were demi-gods of battle, peerless strategists, and even better fighters. One of these sons was Horus. Horus had been corrupted by the Chaos Gods, but the Emperor still loved his son. Horus then lead a Black Crusade for chaos against the Imperium and slaughtered billions in the name of the Chaos Gods. Finally in a desperate last effort, the Emperor and the last remaining loyalists, teleported to Horus' battle barge to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
The God-Emperor of Man could not bring himself to kill his son. Horus took the opportunity to strike. He plunged his poisoned chaos blade into the Emperor. Horus had severely wounded the Emperor, but not killed him. As he was about to deliver the killing blow, a brave Imperial Guardsman, llahnius Pious, stood up for the emperor. He leaped up to the Colossal Primarch and plunged his bayonet into the primarch. He almost killed him but Horus bested Ollahnius. With one swipe he killed the brave Guardsman.
Finally the emperor saw that his son was not his son but a monster. With his dwindling strength the Emperor uses his psychic powers to kill Horus but the emperor was too wounded to be saved. The blade had been removed but the poison's touch was still felt. So ten thousand years later the Emperor sits, immobile, on the Golden Throne of Earth watching over his empire, even still. The Emperor is the only reason that the Chaos gods have not broken through into the material realm. The Emperor holds the doors of chaos closed so that his empire and the entirety of existence may survive.
Thanx for reading and I hope you enjoy playing!
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