DO NOT BUY Warhammer 40,000： Space Marine 2 - VERY Disappointing...

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing the brand new

Warhammer Space Marine 2, and as an avid

fan of Warhammer 40K and also the original

Warhammer Space Marine game, I had to play

this game. Unfortunately, so far it's been

kind of bland, boring, and uninspired.

It's kind of lacking in a certain kind of

luster, and I was really expecting more

from a game in 2024. So at first the game

seems kind of cool, the graphics are

pretty good, and the big set piece large

battle scenes are pretty impressive to

look at. But once you start staring at the

big battle scenes, they look kind of lame.

For example, the endless hordes of

Tyranids coming down mountains or valleys

look kind of silly if you look closely at

them. They look kind of 2D-ish. And also

the explosions going off in the background

look kind of 2D-ish as well. You also

really need a very powerful machine to be

able to play this game on graphic settings

above high or medium, otherwise the game

really slows down and you start getting

below 30 FPS. I have a pretty powerful

system. I have an RTX 4050 and a Ryzen 7

940HS, which is quite a good system and

it's quite expensive to buy last year,

but I struggle to run this game above 60

FPS unless I put the graphics down to

about medium and I put the performance

mode onto performance mode. There's just

so much going on in the background all the

time. There's so many dead bodies lying

around, and movable objects like barrels

and sandbags can be moved around when you

walk into them. It requires a very

powerful high-end system, and I don't

think most of us can afford to have like a

$3,000, $4,000, $5,000 high-end

gaming system because not all of us are

like professional famous YouTube streamers

who can afford such a powerful gaming

machine. Most of us only have £1,000 or

£2,000 machine, and unfortunately that's

just not really going to cut it if you

want to play this game on good graphics or

high graphics and really be able to enjoy

seeing all of the hundreds or thousands

even enemies running across the screen

getting blown to bits. As for the

gameplay, it is very linear and very

repetitive. So basically just going to be

spamming right mouse button to do light

attacks and holding it down to finish it

off with a heavy attack. So you can chain

together different attacks— light, light,

light, heavy, or heavy and then light, or

light then heavy. So you can do some very

basic combos. And then you got the ranged

weapons like bolt guns, assault bolt guns,

heavy bolters. So you've got lots of

variety when it comes to different

variations of bolters, but they all

basically do the same thing. They— you

just hold it down and spray and pray,

basically. You got some scoped bolters,

got pistol stuff, you can get later guns

down later in the game, and there's a bit

of variation with the ranged weapons, but

really it's all just bog-standard bolter

this, bolter that. The bolter guns don't

really feel super powerful. I mean,

they're supposed to be these really

gigantic massive guns that fire

jet-propelled explosive bullets, and

bullets do explode. For example, if you

shoot at a wall, it will blow out a little

chunk, but they just don't really feel

very explosive or very overpowered. They

just feel like you're just spamming some

toy machine gun most of the time. The

parry system is very frustrating. So most

of the time you're going to be surrounded

by loads of enemies and you're going to be

spamming combos at them, and it's really

annoying having to stop what you're doing

because a big blue circle appeared and

then you've got to press the parry button.

I seem to keep missing the parry button.

I don't really focus on trying to get off

parries because number one, they're kind

of annoying to pull off and a bit

difficult. And even if you do pull off a

parry, it doesn't really matter that much.

It doesn't really give you like a really

big boost. You get a bit of a

replenishment in your armor and you

stagger back the enemies a bit when you do

pull off a parry, but I just don't feel

like it's worth focusing on trying to pull

off parries when you can just be spamming

your melee attacks and doing some ranged

attacks instead. Also, it kind of looks

stupid when this big blue circle just

appears out of nowhere. I feel like they

could have done a better job at giving you

a visual hint of when to parry. I just

don't really like the parry system and I

ignore it most of the time. The weapons

like the chainsword do get very repetitive

because in the beginning of the game,

first few hours at least, you're just

going to be given the choice of either the

chainsword or a big dagger. I don't know

why you would choose the big dagger when

you could choose the chainsword, and it

just gets very boring using chainsword

over and over again. I know later you get

a big hammer and get big dual-wield

double-handed sword, but I wish they would

just give you access to these weapons

sooner in the game because you get really

bored using the same weapons over and over

again. In the first, I don't know, first

quarter of the game. I think you're gonna

be using the same weapons over and over,

and it does get very repetitive. There's

certain objectives in the game which are

really frustrating as well. For example,

later on in the game, in the beginning

part of the game, there's this objective

where you've got to defend satellites.

Satellites getting swarmed by these flying

aliens, Tyranids, and you've got to shoot

them off the satellite. The problem is you

run out of ammo, and then you're running

around looking for ammo boxes, and you

can't get them off the satellite without

shooting them. You can't melee them. And

it also doesn't really make any sense

because the Tyranids are supposed to

supposedly damaging the satellite dishes

by attacking it, but then you're shooting

at the satellite dishes or satellite

antennas to shoot them off it. What if you

damage it yourself by shooting your gun at

the satellite antenna? It's kind of weird

and stupid, and it's kind of annoying

because I failed it over and over again

because I ran out of ammo. And I couldn't

get them off the satellite antenna. Also,

the objectives are all the same really,

just go towards the checkpoint and then

fight off loads of enemies and then

assemble in the elevator. So the entire

game is basically just go towards the

objective, kill a bunch of enemies, watch

the Imperial Guard guys gather around you

and say stuff, which is kind of cute.

It's kind of funny looking at them,

seeing how they look up to the Space

Marines and they're so amazed by the Space

Marines. It kind of reminds me of Halo

when you play as the Spartan and you've

got all the little Marines gathering

around you. I remember when I used to play

Halo, I tried really hard not to let the

Marines die, and if any of them died, I'd

restart the checkpoint because I hated

seeing them die. So that kind of reminds

me of my teenage years when I used to play

Halo. And this game just really feels like

a ripoff of a bunch of other games. Like,

it looks a lot like Gears of War. It's

kind of like Helldivers as well in the way

you get these drop pods, you got teams,

and you got hordes of aliens. And the

Tyranids do kind of look like the bugs

from Helldivers. And it's kind of like

Halo because you're in this big power

armor suit and you've got the Imperial

Guard, which are kind of like the Marines.

And it's also a bit like Fallout. I mean,

the Space Marines are basically exactly

the same as the Brotherhood of Steel.

They're like very religious cult-like

organization wearing power armor. And it's

just like a bunch of other game franchises

all rolled into one. One thing I find is

kind of cool is how the spaceships look

like because floating churches and it's

very Catholic or Christian themed,

which is kind of funny. So I feel like

this game is very dumbed-down action-based

combat game. I feel like it could have

benefited from being a bit more RPG

elements implemented into the game, could

have made it more interesting, like a

leveling up system, skill trees like

Diablo where you've got different skills

and talents and that kind of stuff,

leveling up weapons, maybe customizing

weapons would have been cool like scopes

grips, magazines, ammunition types. It

would have been cool if you could upgrade

the weapons and customize them and play

different kind of playstyles based on how

you want to play the game. So

unfortunately, for those reasons, I have

to give this game a 6.2 out of 10. It is

kind of cool looking. I really like the

graphics. I really like the Warhammer

franchise in general because I've been

playing the tabletop game since I was a

teenager, and I really used used to like

Warhammer, so it's kind of nostalgic

seeing Warhammer again now that I'm an

adult, and it brings back childhood

memories. And graphics do look pretty

good, and I'm sure they look even better

if you've got a more powerful system. But

the gameplay is very repetitive, very

tedious. It doesn't really feel like

there's much depth to it. You're just

basically spamming your melee attacks over

and over again, and I feel like they could

have made the game much deeper. It's like

a very shallow game. Very surface-based

and a lot of missed opportunities.

Changing magazine.