Relic producer Andy Lang answers questions about
Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine for
Eurogamer, offering a postmortem on the Warhammer 40K action/RPG, which he does not say was their best work, but he does call their "best console work," though we can't tell if there was any irony intended with that, as Space Marine is the first Relic game to appear on consoles. He admits they were concerned they were "crazy trying to bring this game to consoles this late in the cycle," noting that this is: "Because it's so competitive." He seems to have taken the game's review scores (
Metacritic: PS3: 71, PC: 75, 360: 78) in stride:
"I'm pretty humble; I don't look at [criticism] and get all upset. I thought most of the reviews were fairly on the mark with what they had to say; the character design does get a bit repetitive and certain parts of it, just how the game plays - we didn't have time to really polish that stuff to where we wanted to get to. There wasn't anything that was oh-my-god shocking in the game.
"We're not super surprised by [the scores]," he added. "Of course we'd always like to have higher scores, but with our feature-set and coming out late in the console cycle - it's really hard to have that feature-rich game. We did our best to deliver that blockbuster experience. And the scores landed where they landed."
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MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Oct 13, 2011, 01:47: Those guys USED to rock.
Dawn of War 2 was a joke, Space Marine is barely tolerable. I much preferred DoWII to the original. I mean, it's not like base building really suited the W40K universe anyway - they just went that direction because all RTS games did. With DoWII they actually pushed something new. The RPG-elements really added to the singleplayer, while the multiplayer became much more enjoyable, unlike normal RTS games where it's all about rushing bases early on.
So yeah, I'd like to see a sequel to Homeworld but you've got to admit that it's not exactly a well known IP. I'm more interested in seeing DoWIII, as I have a much stronger attachment to the brand. |
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