Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

I expected a game where I have to beat the living schenanigans of greenskins. Got it. Can only recommend it.

I enjoyed this more then the second game so far. it even has widescreen support

The sentence "they don't make them like they used to" is very fitting here. This game is pure, no-nonsense fun. You're dropped in the middle of an alien invasion, pick up a bunch of heavy weapons and mow down everything that opposes you. There is not much to look for on maps (or rather elongated arenas), other than ammo and weapon change/upgrade points. Hidden audio logs are completely optional. The story is simple but competent. I'm not familiar with Warhammer 40k lore, but I know someone who is and he told me this is it, this is the game to start with, if you want to dive into that franchise. But it does not matter that much because the most important part is the gameplay and that is still great, even after over a decade. So why such a low score? Two reasons. The first one is that the game is too short, I wanted more. You can replay it again on a higher difficulty. But there were moments, where I struggled on normal, I do not want to challenge myself that much. Because there are no story choices and gameplay variety isn't great, I feel it would get stale quickly. I picked this up because I want to play that new sequel and that is what I'm going to do next. Too bad SM2 is not available on GOG. The second, much bigger problem: game crashes often on modern machines. Internet says it's because modern CPUs have too many cores. A solution that worked for me: assign a few cores (I went with 4) to the game process in Windows Task Manager. This should have been patched in.

Everyone already knows, it's damn good fun.

Great gameplay, amazing graphic for its time, a little buggy but what game doesnt have some bugs?