Fun hack-and-slash game. I wish there was a bit more to it, but I'm happy with it as-is.

Many people will be screaming about Gears of War when this game hits the shelves but I"m here to tell you that Warhammer 40k beat GoW with this type of game well over twenty years ago.

A little rought around the edges but this game is pure carnage. Tear through hordes of Orcs with your chainsaw or shoot them from afar with a Lascannon -- it's all in a day's work for the Space Marin and it is fun, fun, fun!

Imagine being surrounded by a horde of angry orcs, decked out with swords and guns. Tactics would call to retreat, find cover, gut 'em with gunfire and turn them into chunks with grenades. But what you really is to get into the face of impossible odds and kick the seven hells out it.

From the very beginning of 3rd person shooter ‘Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine' you're made extremely aware that the protagonist, Captain Titus, is a total badass.

Looks and sounds good; Satisfying melee combat; Punchy gunplay; A decent story; It's fun

The odd health system; A real lack of variety makes things too predictable

If like me you were hunched over tiny figures, giving them life through detailed painting and imaginative table play at the teenager's sweet haven ‘Games Workshop', then you have been patiently waiting.

Entertaining; attractive and downright bloody

Pacing problems; a little easy; flawed ‘special moves'

To virgin eyes, Space Marine must look like a very generic sci-fi adventure game. A lone space marine – whose job is literally titled ‘Space Marine' – spearheads an attack against an invading alien horde, purging the beleaguered planet with guns and grenades and a roaring chainsaw. It is Doom .

is the latest game from Relic Entertainment to pit a few hard-as-nails Ultramarines against an army of thousands of Orks and Chaos demons. Unlike most games in the

Warhammer looks to break into a new console audience with third-person shooter Space Marine, Tom Hoggins takes a first look

I have played the table game of Warhammer and Warhammer 40.000. This is like a "souvenir" of the good times playing with friends on a table instead of in front of the TV. Nevertheless it is well done.