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is now available on xbox live! well in europe at least. just thought you all needed to know

We did need to know.
Thank you OT.

Right so they have put co-op in, but only local and not through xbox live. Fail much?

It's not fail, I do like this more if I have to be sincere... at least you are going to play with a friend.

The game IMHO is much better than I could hope and for € 10 (more or less) I couldn't ask for more.

It's basically Dawn of War 2 with the possibility to control the Marine.. it's cool!

Chapter that may be selected :

Blood Ravens
Ultramarines
Blood Angels
Salamanders
Imperial Fists
White Scars (? or was it Space Wolves ? can't remember)

I loved the fact that they've kept all 1st founding chapters, besides the obvious Ravens.

Besides this you may choose one of the following class :

Librarian
Vanguard Veteran - everyone loves assault veterans with jetpacks!
Sternguard Veteran - everyone loves veteran devastators!
Techmarine (? should be)

I think that I miss one mmm

is the game fun? I downloaded Dead Nation as one of my free PS3 games, and I hated it :( it's a 2 stick kind of game too, so I'm hesitant to blow cash on a game I may end up never playing, even if it's only $10.

What? No online co-op? What's the bloody point of that. I need both!

I'm having fun with it for the only mission I've played, but it's a game that MUST be played with someone else , otherwise fun factor goes down... at least IMHO

I miss the gold ole days when multiplayer meant having 3 of your friends over playing quad screen shooters on a 21" TV and boozing away while your fragged each other.

The interweb ruined everything :(

Loved that too, but with growing up, comes the annoying problem of people moving out, so most of my friends are half a country away now.

Oooo wil definitly be buying this, I do need some substitute for my Space Marine craving

I still do that, the TV's just bigger and better.

Lots of fun, might have a friend over later to try 2 player.

It's great.
Really really brilliant...
The CC classes are a b*itch to play so i recomend starting with either the Techmarine or the Sternguard marine first.
Librarian is the hardest to play IMO since the shooting from a lot of units is really damaging.

I think it's a lot of fun.

purplefood wrote:
Librarian is the hardest to play IMO since the shooting from a lot of units is really damaging.

I agree the melee classes can indeed be tough to play, I found in the Survival mode I didn't last long using them without backup from another player. I found the hardest class to be the Techmarine, he feels to me sort of like he's supposed to be partway between shooty and choppy, and his special power seems to have more of a "support" than instantly effective role. But, when enemies are really pouring in it's possible to charge the ability fast enough to chain several uses.

Bit harsh.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/311519/news/thq-studio-releases-game-gets-closed-in-same-day/


Planning on trying the trial tomorrow, and if it is fun, will download it tomorrow night.

This is a fun game I have only tried the vanguard but will be using others soon.

Techmarine is my fav so far. The turret just decimates anything, and makes bosses piss easy.

The lack of online co-op is a big disappointment. Way to not get my money, THQ.

Oh I'm also stoked about the power sword for space marine. I think its a great way to tie in the games it kinda like the fable pub games in the sense that you get free stuff for the more fun of the games.

Hmm, any chance of this coming on PSN?

Says in that CVG report I linked to, they fired most of the staff, but left a skeleton crew for the PSN release.

Well, I guess I'll see whenever it arrives, if it ever does. Until then, I've got the Witcher 2 to look forward to.

In the thread in News and rumours its been noted as July 26th for PSN.

Morathi's Darkest Sin wrote:Says in that CVG report I linked to, they fired most of the staff, but left a skeleton crew for the PSN release.

It isnt like it took a crack team to use DOW2 resources and make a top down shooter with a bad camera

game is fun though

Honestly, they should've made the game more like the actual 40k. Army vs Army, not 1 or 2 marines vs a horde... to me, that's not entertaining or realistic. But then again, that's just my opinion.

Joker58 wrote:Honestly, they should've made the game more like the actual 40k. Army vs Army, not 1 or 2 marines vs a horde... to me, that's not entertaining or realistic. But then again, that's just my opinion.

Dude...
It's a kill team... KILL TEAM.

worth the dollars? I'm considering picking this up and having a bash over a fews beers with a mate this afternoon...

Very much worth the money, I jumped in glee when i heard that it was released and had a blast playing the trial. Now i just wanna play the dang techmarine. Curse you lack of microsoft points. Though my friend got it so i high-tailed my butt over there and played for a very very long time. Though the lack of playing online still makes me mad. But gives me something to do when I don't feel like paying for live.

Yeah Ill probably grab it then, I think I have the spare microsoft points. Sucks that it can't be used on live though.

lunarghost wrote:Very much worth the money, I jumped in glee when i heard that it was released and had a blast playing the trial. Now i just wanna play the dang techmarine. Curse you lack of microsoft points. Though my friend got it so i high-tailed my butt over there and played for a very very long time. Though the lack of playing online still makes me mad. But gives me something to do when I don't feel like paying for live.

I thought the demo was a bit ho-hum and really hated the fact that it didn't have online coop but my people on my friends list seemed to be having fun with it so I just paid the 10 bucks... and it was definitely worth it. The levels sequentially get better and better (with one scene being the exception... stupid carnifex!!) and this arcade game has more of an enemy variety than some full $60 titles with 18 separate and distinguishable enemies (by distinguishable I mean codex entries, not red and green blobs counting as "different"). The coop is still sorely missed but the game itself is definitely fun albeit a bit short.