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Between Duke Nukem Forever and Bulletstorm in February and Space Marine in March I'm going to have a busy Spring ahead of me...

CT GAMER wrote:

rodgers37 wrote:(I'm sure it says somewhere, but i don't have time to look through various threads and reviews etc but...)

Is this game just going to be you playing as an Ultramarine? If it is, it might get a bit boring....

You play a MARINE. You get to arm him in a variety of ways, with various weaponry and equipment (jump packs, heavy weapons, various ccw, etc.)

The fact that he is skinned as an Ultramarine is about the most unimportant thing you could pick to possibly complain about with this game.

Seriously people, get over the "Ultamarine hate" thing, it was old and worn out ages ago...

It wasn't about the Ultramarine, i like Ultramarines, it was about the individual character thing, i just can't play games like that for very long (although i don't seem to have a problem with Assasssins Creed....)

darthmatty wrote:HAve just been into my local Game shop just to see if they had a release date. According to them it's out on 1st of March and is available for pre-order. So have mine now on order

You sir, just made my day.

Has this been confirmed yet?

I mean, you know, REALLY confirmed?

Probably not by THQ, but most online/store release dates aren't a million miles out....Play.com has it down as 11th March, Amazon doesn't have one though (and they tend to be more accurate i believe....)

Speaking as one who works at Gamestop, Space Marine has a date of March 1, 2011 currently, but anything that's the first of a month is really just a placeholder date until a firm date is set.

However... new releases, 9 times out of 10, come out on tuesdays, and March 1 just happens to be a tuesday...

What I would gather from that is, expect Space Marine sometime in the general Feb/March/April area, with the possibility for being pushed back into the summer.

CT GAMER wrote:
You play a MARINE. You get to arm him in a variety of ways, with various weaponry and equipment (jump packs, heavy weapons, various ccw, etc.)

The fact that he is skinned as an Ultramarine is about the most unimportant thing you could pick to possibly complain about with this game.

Seriously people, get over the "Ultamarine hate" thing, it was old and worn out ages ago...

I agree with you, but it would be nice to get to paint him over with different chapter colors at least

Jack

I just returned from the local gamestop. Spacemarine is indeed open for pre-orders, but the staff there said the release date in their system was Dec 31 2011 @@
I suspect there is misinformation about.

Have they said anything about spiky marines yet? I'd love to either kill or play as some chaos guys Voice acting would be Brootal for them.

Spiky Marines are not in. At all.

They were in for THQ Australia's project, which was scrapped.

We now fight endless waves of orks instead of the spiky ones.

I would kill a man for this game.

S_P

Space Marine has been confirmed for release in Summer 2011.

There's also some new screens up here showing a new weapon - The Plasma Gun!

for those of us who are fanatics of the 40k universe, it seems like this stuff always takes ages to come out :( -- and for the record, there is nothing wrong with THQ studios or Relic.

Ah well whenever it's out mine's ordered!!! Yay!!!!

THQInsider wrote:Space Marine has been confirmed for release in Summer 2011.

There's also some new screens up here showing a new weapon - The Plasma Gun!

Summer 2011 - argh!

The wait... so painful!

And, quite the trio of screenshots there!

Apparently, gore issues are.. not an issue!

THQInsider wrote:Space Marine has been confirmed for release in Summer 2011.

There's also some new screens up here showing a new weapon - The Plasma Gun!

Those new screens are loads of awesome. Thanks for supplying me with my new desk top and screensaver pics!

I think this game looks like loads of fun, and the visuals are very cinematic and evocative of what I always imagined the 40K universe to look like cinematically.

As someone who loves/collects/plays Orks, I am pumped that they feature so heavily in this game, even if they are the fodder for Space Marine carnage.

As someone who doesn't spend a ton of time console gaming, I have to say that this game will be the first game I will have bought specifically for myself in a number of years.

Can't wait...