Uninspiring.
It's yet another third person action shooter with ultra violence and cinematic action cam shots. I just came off working on the bourne conspiracy and can't tell you how annoying/boring these repetetive scenes are in gameplay. They break up the flow and have little wow factor after watching the same takedown animation for the bajillionth time.
There are so many ideas for making a good third person Space Marine game it's sickening, the very fact that they have resorted to cinematic sequences to wow a bunch of assholes in a publishing house, shows that this studio isn't going to produce much of anything in this space marine game. Expect it in the bargain bin a few months after launch.
The artwork looks pretty good as I try to figure out what I'm seeing in youtube format. But it's yet another game using a dull brown pallette and desaturated colors. I would have loved to see this game with a bit of rich color and a dash of style. Instead we get another copy of gears of war down to the chainsaw.
My take on what would make this game good? It's 2008, no more lone heroes crawling the catacombs, Space marines would work in squads, where the player must assist his fellow marines and eventually lead them to victory for the Emperor. I'd do away with the stupid cine scenes and load up on a wider variety of fluid ingame animation to make what the player is witnessing more believable.
Levels would be designed with purpose, objectives, and multiple routes to accomplishing a major goal. The player though a high an mighty marine would find himself very cautious to take on his equal counterpart marines and rely on support from his squad and a lot of tactical skill.
These things can be done. The problem is that 99% of video game designers are horrible designers. That and they're lazy! Its easy to make the same old shit and add lazy features like cinematic finishing moves. It's much harder to write smart ai and work on a single player experience that has the player working with a team of marines.
Pray I get my company started guys, I promise if it happens, you will see better games than this out in the market for you to play with.
-Grutch
