Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is brutal and almost brilliant
Released on PC, PS5 and the Xbox Series, the new game will please series fans but is not without issues. Check out our review for more
War, death and religious fanaticism – this nightmarish triad forms the basis of the tabletop game Warhammer. Since the 1980s, its British manufacturer Games Workshop has been developing strategy games in which fans chase miniatures of soldiers and monsters across the board.
With that success has come countless video-game spin-offs. In 2011, there was the action game Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. That has now got a sequel that takes place around 100 years after the events of the first part.
Thanks to life-extending implants, main character Titus is still in service as an elite soldier in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2. Peace is unthinkable in this universe because demons from another dimension keep invading.
When a mysterious artefact on a planet promises to be the ultimate weapon, a race against time begins. Titus is once again in the middle of it all and faces not only evil, but also his own past.
Developer Saber Interactive stages this dark story as a straightforward action game that will appeal above all to existing fans. Who is attacking whom, where the so-called machine gods come from or who is actually the bad guy will initially remain a mystery to newcomers to the Warhammer universe.
