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Space Marine 2 Review

 Take if for what it is: 3.5/5

This is another live service game. This is a difficult review for me since I love Space Marine and Space Marine 2 is an awesome game with Titus (one of my favorite protagonists), however, I have to be honest with this one at the same time. It also started out rough being more of a grind even on normal difficulty. It has gotten better and the story/single player campaign is still worthy of a playthrough.

However, it is like Helldivers, Diablo IV and other live service games. The game can change at anytime and any moment. Right now, they decreased the grind and made it more bearable compared to before when it first released. It is another issue/problem with these live service games. They can be great or bad within just one-two weeks. I am putting this right here since it needs to be known about this game being more of a live service game than a single player/split multiplayer game like the original.

I personally enjoy going through the single player and fully embracing the story, but I will admit, there are many points in the game that feels like it was designed with MP in front of the single player aspect. I truly feel this game would have been a 5/5 if it had a separate single player campaign all by itself and then they attached a MP campaign after the fact, or as a separate game. Similar to how GTA V is. GTA V is an incredible single player game, yet, it has GTA Online by itself if you would like to play that too.

I hate to be so critical of these games with good writers, actors, and stories, yet I have to tell people when they are trying to merge the Single Player and Multi-Player together. It could have been an incredible sequel and an amazing addition to the Warhammer 40K franchise, but them trying to merge single player and multi-player together is the killer for me. It is not a bad game at all, but an OK game that can change on the whim with the merger of the live service and single player combined gameplay.

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