Sorry it's been a while. I just regained consciousness from turning 21. Any who, space marine multiplayer info just came out today. I've been looking forward to this since I heard about the game and man have I been excited for this game. I pushed through terrible internet to get this information although you can listen to it for yourself on their website spacemarine.com/news
The multiplayer pits space marine against chaos marine in two different game types: capture and control and death match (however if you watch the interviews they do everything they can to try and make it seem different.) Both are pretty standard and feature 8 on 8 marine on marine action. On top of that, you can customize the crap out of your marine. It's really insane the amount of detail you can go into with it but it is a bit disappointing that you only get to do it for multiplayer and not the single player game. I guess I'll be an ultramarine... If I have to...
There's also 3 classes: tactical marine, described as the swiss army knife class able to use all of the rifles in the game, devastator, heavy weapons and sniper rifles, and assault marines, who fly in and punch people. They gain experience, have perks and unlock new weapons. Also the videos show off how awesome assault marine flying is. I'm really looking forward to it and really hope it goes better then some of my halo reach jetpack adventures.
That's basically the multiplayer in a nutshell. My opinion?
I'm pretty disappointed. Really the only thing I'm impressed with is the customization which I'll admit is impressive but the game types and so average. I mean you have the awesome world of warhammer at your hands and you can't make anything that at least uses that? How about a mission where chaos needs to perform a ritual and space marines need to stop it. How about siege battles like in battle field where one side tries to hold on to objectives while the other side pushes to overwhelm them. HOW ABOUT CAPTURE THE FLAG? There are so many options and they go with death match, which I admit should be in the game, and capture and control, which should also be in the game but is usually the game type you skip over in other games.
I mean look at games like halo and call of duty. Sure there is a whole ranking and unlocking armor system and all that jazz but part of what makes those games so awesome is the bazillion different game types. I know when I play halo I get bored of swat so I play team slayer then I get bored and switch to objectives, then I try some multi team. Sure a lot of them end up being variations on death match but I like variation and I don't think I'm alone in that opinion. Look at call of duty too. So many game types and so many variations on game types. It's fantastic.
They have a ranking and leveling up system in the game to keep players coming back but I'm gonna get a little bored of 2 different types of games but after a certain point I feel like it's just gonna be like grinding for levels. Ya know, the boring repitive stuff you have to do in video games to level up. No one likes that. I look at games like counter strike and day of defeat. If you just play the standard game, you have one game type. It's fun, and yes both games are pretty popular but in my opinion you get kinda bored after a while with just the same stuff over and over. Also at least with those games you can go on to different servers that might provide variation on those game types or a new game type altogether. I'm really hoping today's info is just the beginning of info. More will come out. HOPEFULLY. but I don't think so.
I'm really hoping there's a lot of levels to play on. If there are enough levels I can maybe see it working with only a couple of game types but even then it's still kinda weak.
Last three notes: 1) No co-op mode? I can't tell you how long me and my buddies have been looking forward to mowing down orkz together. I guess we'll have to be content with getting shot at by twelve year olds in chaos armor. 2) No horde mode? I'd be fine with no multiplayer if there was some horde mode but doesn't look like it. I mean you've got a game where you've created tons of ork enemies and a game that would blend perfectly to a horde mode game type and you're gonna leave it out? Thanks relic. Honestly, co-op and horde mode possibilities were some of the main reasons I was looking forward to this game. 3) I really hope the "acquire new weapons and stuff" is like COD black ops and not like MWF2. I don't wanna be spending forever unlocking tons of stuff when really all I want is a plasma gun.
I'm hoping, probably in vain, that this is just the beginning of information and we'll get more before it's release date in september but I'm not gonna hold my breath. However, I'm totally willing to eat my own words if this stuff ends up existing. Til then, KILLA KAN MAD!!!
