By Alec Meer on March 24th, 2011 at 9:43 am.
Do Space Marines go on dates? “You have the most gorgeous geneseed.” “If I said you have a beautiful flamer, would you let me burn the heretic with it?” “In the grim darkness of the 41st millennium there is only war, and your eyes.”
Anyway! Relic’s upcoming orkshooter Space Marine has finally been granted something like a release date. It’s been on the horizon for about 40,000 years already, but now all of a sudden it’s turning up in August. This August, that is. So just five months until the Ultramarine’s Captain Titus sticks his Power Fist into the maw of various non-human scum (which were earlier this week confirmed to include the forces of Chaos). 2011 sure is a busy year for expensive-looking video games.
Space Marine trailer (albeit an old one) below to aid with your remembrance.
I AM VERY MACHO. Also, that music so wants to segue into the Requiem for a Dream soundtrack.
24/03/2011 at 09:49 GT3000 says:
I am…Excited for this release.
24/03/2011 at 10:39 worbat says:
I am… Also excited
24/03/2011 at 16:11 Commisar says:
yes, i too am now excited, SPESS MAHRINES!!!!
24/03/2011 at 09:52 Stevostin says:
Is that a FPS, or won’t I play it ?
24/03/2011 at 09:56 Gnoupi says:
TPS or beat them all. Mostly TPS
24/03/2011 at 10:47 Stevostin says:
A really good beat em all… well, possibly. But a TPS shooter, hell now. It’s nearly as insane as playing a FPS with a pad !
24/03/2011 at 10:47 HexagonalBolts says:
turn person shooter?
24/03/2011 at 10:51 Optimaximal says:
Turn (your enemies to) Paste Shooter!
24/03/2011 at 10:54 Ultra Superior says:
Terminatus Purgatum Slash’n'shooter
24/03/2011 at 14:35 Jad says:
Is “beat them all” a Britishism for “beat ‘em up” or something? It sounds so much calmer.
Also, he means that it’s a TPS report-filling simulator.
24/03/2011 at 14:37 Nick says:
No it isn’t, we use beat em up as well. I’ve literally never heard of Beat em all before.
24/03/2011 at 15:10 Jad says:
Maybe Gnoupi is from the future.
04/04/2011 at 12:47 adonf says:
“Beat’em all” is French for “beat’em up”. Really!
24/03/2011 at 09:57 Jonathan says:
Poor orks :(
24/03/2011 at 10:01 Bhazor says:
Cuddles for the Cuddle God!
24/03/2011 at 11:32 Meat Circus says:
I wish I was a Spess Mehreen.
FOR THE EMPRUH
24/03/2011 at 11:58 Qjuad says:
To the metal bawxes, battle bruvers!
24/03/2011 at 13:09 KikiJiki says:
Your assurances leave me cold……..
SINDRIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
I am so looking forward to this game!
24/03/2011 at 10:14 Kirioth says:
I need this game in my life. Even if it’s terrible, it’ll still be fun just because you can carve hordes of enemies to pieces with a chainsaw. Sorry, sorry, chainSWORD.
24/03/2011 at 10:52 Optimaximal says:
Why is it so hard? It’s a sword… WITH A CHAINSAW IN IT!
24/03/2011 at 16:40 Teddy Leach says:
No, it’s a chainsaw with a sword in it!
24/03/2011 at 10:16 Makariel says:
“Baby, somebody better call the emperor, since he’s missing a blood angel!”
24/03/2011 at 11:44 Bhazor says:
Slaanesh must be missing one of his whores. Now move your big ass ’round this way so I can weld through that armour, baby,
24/03/2011 at 10:17 Inigo says:
I’m still holding out for a Deff Skwadron flight sim.
24/03/2011 at 11:11 P4p3Rc1iP says:
Haha, I would love that!
24/03/2011 at 10:19 poop says:
dont you love it when a year appears to have a nice healthy spacing of titles only to have everything get delayed or released in q3/4 anyway
24/03/2011 at 10:52 Ultra Superior says:
Xactly. I hate them delaying people.
DEUS EX – love of my life
SPACE MARINE – love of my life
and now these bitches wanna be dated at the same time !!!!
24/03/2011 at 10:19 Calchas says:
“For 200 years i have served the imperium”
Where are his service studs? Shouldnt he have 2 in his brow?
24/03/2011 at 10:21 Inigo says:
Keep watching.
24/03/2011 at 10:21 GT3000 says:
Check the last 15 or so seconds when he gets all introspective.
24/03/2011 at 11:46 Bhazor says:
So that’s what those are… I kind of assumed they were just bullets wedged in his head and he’s too butch to care.
24/03/2011 at 12:42 Cradok says:
I was thinking that, and why he looked a bit too pretty to be a 200-year veteran.
24/03/2011 at 12:52 Rond says:
AFAIK there’s no imperium-wide standard on long service studs. Different chapters can give out long service studs for different service time, and maybe use several kinds of studs, varying in material and shape.
24/03/2011 at 14:00 iniudan says:
@Rond Yes, but this guy is an Ultramarine, they do everything by the book, and by that I mean the Codex Astartes, which was written by their Primarch. So deviation from standard space marine procedure for them is extremely rare, actually I would even say quite unique event.
24/03/2011 at 14:21 Rond says:
@iniudan:
This Titus fella better watch out for the black ships then.
24/03/2011 at 14:29 Rond says:
Oh, by the way, he has the studs by the end of the video. Apparently when he says “For 200 years i have served the imperium” he hasn’t yet.
24/03/2011 at 10:27 Moni says:
Is Ultra Marine the awesomest colour of them all?
24/03/2011 at 10:36 drewski says:
It doesn’t remotely compare to Super Crimson.
24/03/2011 at 16:29 Starky says:
Clearly Super Black is the bast (non) colour.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_black
24/03/2011 at 10:36 Sunjammer says:
Somehow, making the primary antagonist the comic relief orks sort of makes the poignancy and weight of the subject a little naff.
I love the Orks. But there best be some eldars mans and some chaos mans. Slaanesh motherfuckers be trippin’
24/03/2011 at 10:37 drewski says:
Poignancy? Weight? Think you’ve got the wrong universe.
24/03/2011 at 10:42 JB says:
As for chaos: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/22/khorney-dialogue-space-marine-does-chaos/
24/03/2011 at 10:44 TsunamiWombat says:
Chaos has been announced as an enemy yes. Orks are there to show how badass a space marine is, scything through hundreds single handedly like it was a Dynasty Warriors game.
24/03/2011 at 11:00 misterk says:
Man I’d LOVE this to be like dynasty warriors, whole bunch of guard getting killed until you turn up, plunging through orks until you finally meet a squad of nobz or something worth killing.
24/03/2011 at 11:37 kikito says:
“… eldar mans …”
Eldars are a women-only race. They reproduce by making love to trees.
24/03/2011 at 14:21 Nick says:
No they aren’t.
24/03/2011 at 16:32 Starky says:
Yes they are, they are namby pamby girly girls.
Played by girly girls.
24/03/2011 at 17:44 Highstorm says:
I foresaw this comment thousands of years before your pathetic civilization even pondered the stars.
24/03/2011 at 22:59 Temple to Tei says:
And yet you did nothing about it
25/03/2011 at 09:12 Selifator says:
Because that comment will soon fight itself, we need only watch it’s suicidal rage.
24/03/2011 at 10:37 skyturnedred says:
In this age of hundreds of games revolving around space marines, I love that they’re ballsy enough to just simply call it Space Marine.
24/03/2011 at 10:54 Optimaximal says:
I think Games Workshop actually has the trademark on ‘Space Marine’, which sort of helps…
24/03/2011 at 11:00 Ultra Superior says:
They were the firstest* and are the bestest.
*they weren’t, but before them it was just starship troopers books and alien. Then Blizzard copystole their IP and produced warcraft-starcraft.
24/03/2011 at 10:48 Zephro says:
How come they look so cartoony? :(
Also Ultramarines? Really? Could you pick a blander protagonist?
24/03/2011 at 10:57 Ultra Superior says:
Marcus Phoenix, Nathan Drake, any Jedi that’s not from movies etc.
Grow up.
24/03/2011 at 11:01 Zephro says:
All protagonists I can’t stand. But thanks for the patronising.
I seem to remember 40K was set in a grim dark future where there was only war, not kaleidoscope cartoon characters done with basic crayon sets. Nostalgia I guess.
24/03/2011 at 11:03 Inigo says:
Go back and look at first and second edition Orks.
Goofy as fuck.
24/03/2011 at 11:06 Zephro says:
True, though it was at least an actual joke. They had squig wigs and goff rockers and young orks were really organised as stormboyz. It was less bland anyway.
24/03/2011 at 11:20 Ultra Superior says:
There used to be a leaked video footage from the SPACE MARINE
with grim gothic art direction – I can’t find it, but at least found some screenshots from it:
http://games.tiscali.cz/preview/warhammer-space-marine-detaily-33365
24/03/2011 at 12:22 bill says:
The “grim dark” future of 40k has never been very grim or dark – that’s what comes of letting people paint their own figures.
The orks and eldar were always super colorful.
24/03/2011 at 12:38 Bhazor says:
http://www.dragonrealm.com/exlibrismortis/ExLibrisnewSistersArmy.html
Fear the Hello Kitty army.
24/03/2011 at 13:07 Ultra Superior says:
Be proud of your color and glitter sister!
Camouflage is the color of fear!
24/03/2011 at 13:21 Stompywitch says:
Wasn’t that shot from the other Space Marine game, which got subtly killed for Relic’s one?
24/03/2011 at 13:25 Zephro says:
Those pictures do look much better.
Well 40K always had the hobby and the background a wee bit separate. As obviously like D&D once you hand over the tools to craft your own adventures/stories people will dick around.
Anyway in my head 40K will always look like the black and white work of John Blanche or something more like HR Giger. Even if it is clearly gross caricature rather than amazing cutting edge art, he did more interesting things than just illustrating catalogues for miniatures.
http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRxfMEJOR3P7vKjopW7G9gZHD4gYHZ65bZ5nHEZ5EUBrNMG42dN&t=1
http://images.dakkadakka.com/gallery/2009/4/7/26414_sm-2nd%20Edition,%20Armored%20Company,%20Artwork,%20Baneblade,%20Copyright%20Games%20Workshop,%20Epic,%20Imperial%20Guard,%20John%20Blanche,%20Retro%20Review.jpg
http://www.dakkadakka.com/s/i/at/2010/11/23/852152759a688964252212950f76e0ce_34119.jpg__thumb
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/mediawiki/images/thumb/b/b7/Adeptus_Arbites.jpg/150px-Adeptus_Arbites.jpg
And yes there was always a level of tongue in cheekness about it and dicking around, like Ork Goff Rockers. But it had some personality damn it!
24/03/2011 at 15:45 SlayerCake says:
I’m preeeeetty sure that 40K started out as a parody anyway.
24/03/2011 at 16:42 Damien Stark says:
@Bhazor
I’ll see your link and raise you a http://onastick.net/sitz/images/
24/03/2011 at 18:25 Kevin says:
Annnngry!
http://1d4chan.org/images/9/92/Angry_Marine_Smackdown.jpg
24/03/2011 at 11:01 Kevin says:
If Relic made a Devil May Cry-esque action game where you play as a Harlequin, then we’d be talking
Plus, if the heroine was a Solitaire, you’d have an in-universe explanation as to why the protagonist is completely mute!
24/03/2011 at 11:10 P4p3Rc1iP says:
This!
24/03/2011 at 11:26 Ultra Superior says:
Hey People!
Who wanna play a mute Eldar?
“Me! Me! ….and Me!”
And now people, who wanna play Space Marine?
Me!Me!Me!Me!Me too!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me too!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me too!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me too!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me too!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me!Me too!Me!Me!…x40000000″
24/03/2011 at 12:32 Stephen Roberts says:
All I want to do is play an ork.
Substitute play for be.
24/03/2011 at 16:36 Starky says:
Second the Ork – It would be bloody awesome to play a game where you are an Ork as the protagonist.
24/03/2011 at 18:04 Kevin says:
@Ultra Superior
Not just any mute Eldar.
A mute Eldar who has no soul (doomed to be “She-who-thrists’” plaything), can make Cirque du Soleil look like a band of uncoordinated, bumbling morons, uses weapons so horrific even the Dark Eldar would be shocked, and has the martial prowess to make even the Grey Knights shit their pants in fear.
24/03/2011 at 11:51 HermitUK says:
Hope we hear some more about the Co-op and multiplayer stuff soon. Co-op especially.
24/03/2011 at 12:53 Rond says:
I think co-op was confirmed somewhere.
24/03/2011 at 12:58 bascule42 says:
I dont mean to be a stick in the mud, but if in 40,000 years time from now, the term “non human scum” is socially acceptable then that’s all fine and dandy. But here, just shortly after the dawn of the 21st Century, around brunch time of the 2100′s, the more enlightned of us set out to embrace all races and creeds. So, I say this to you Sir. Love the Ork, embrace the cultural diversity of Choas, get to know and understand better the way of the Tau, and try to get a date with that saucy looking chick from the Eldar.
24/03/2011 at 14:20 iniudan says:
You have been found lacking toward the Emperor of Mankind and guilty of complaisance with the Xenos.
Repent now and you should be given the quick and painless embrace of the Emperor or purification by the flame will be your only salute.
24/03/2011 at 16:37 Starky says:
Com ere’ oomie and I will sho ya luv… Me squigs ‘il giv ya a nice cuddle.
24/03/2011 at 13:15 TheFlyingWooly says:
After playing the Ork campaign in retribution there needs to be a game focused on the exploits of Kaptin Bluddflagg and his Freebooterz. Fartin about space, stompin poncy eldar an takin hats!
Oh aye, I’m also looking forward to this.
24/03/2011 at 13:22 Stompywitch says:
Mob Forktres’.
Actually, an Ork Elite-a-like would be tons of fun. You only need to trade in one commodity: Violence.
24/03/2011 at 13:54 mcnostril says:
This is not an idea.
This is prophecy.
IT SIMPLY MUST BE.
I don’t need plot beyond looking for shiny bitz, fancy hats and stompin so long as everything is orky.
24/03/2011 at 15:06 JohnnyMaverik says:
I hate this trailer, not completely sure why but it just gets to me. Game looks cool though.
24/03/2011 at 16:03 Teddy Leach says:
FEEL THE MANLINESS.
25/03/2011 at 09:20 Selifator says:
Curious as to whether or not the bolters will actually sound as bolters should. I’d rather not be firing a submachine gun again.
26/03/2011 at 15:36 Zombat says:
If the trailers anything to go by the bolters sound like an MP40.
Which is retarded, its a handheld rocket propelled grenade gun. It should sound like its firing rockets
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