Space Marine Still Isn't a Gears of War Ripoff

GP blogger Khorne writes, "In Space Marine your character is a giant super soldier so he moves slower than the average human, but he can still roll around the battlefield like a crazed child and he can sprint. Relic seems to have found a nice balance between making your character feel like a powerful giant and making him responsive. The demo also showed off the Jump pack, which when used rockets you up into the sky where you can be boring and shoot people from your vantage point or you can aim at a group of Orcs and come charging down onto them. The Jump pack was fun at first, but the demo only showed it off in a limited area which was disappointing and I hope that in the full game you get to use it in a wide open battlefield."

[WolfLeBlack]

I've got to say that the amount of people who look at it and scream Gears clone is unbelievable. Play the game, folks, and you quickly realise that they're worlds apart :)

[ATi_Elite]

Warhammer is all about non-stop violent action and mostly weapon based with minor gun play where as Gears is about running from cover to cover then shooting rinse repeat!

Besides Warhammer 40K has been around since 1987.

So who is ripping who off again?

[Venoxn4g]

emmm.. wasn't Warhammer a strategy game? I could be wrong

[ATi_Elite]

@ Venom

Warhammer had the tabletop RTS action figures and if you look at the action figures then you can see how Epic got inspired by them. The whole Gears story line is the exact same as WarHammer. Man is united under a Spiritual/Political system the Orcs or Locust attack man, the Cogs or Ultra Marines defend mankind so on and so on.

plus some of the Gears characters are similar to those in the Warhammer universe.

Personally i do not care cause they are two totally different games but since they both are 3PS idiots wanna make flaimbait articles but just the mere fact that someone would say WarHammer is copying Gears is kinda unnerving when Warhammer has been around since 1987. Yes it started out as a tabletop RTS game, then a video RTS game, and now 3ps the premise, characters, looks, and story has always been the same.

If anything Mass Effect is becoming Gears of War!

[Objective]

Warhammer has been around a much longer time, so it can't be a rip off.

[Miiikeyyy]

If anything, Gears borrowed ideas from Warhammer

[BioDemon-]

Played the demo, It felt like a more melee oriented Gears.

EDIT: Not saying that it's a bad thing.

[Rampaged Death]

It's nothing like Gears. The only thing that it has in common with Gears is men running around in huge metal armour.

[Volomon]

No offense to anyone who likes Gears but I thought the game was shit, playing it via PC for the first game. Never touched it since. Space Marines is like gold velvety gold.

[Breadisgood]

It's third person and it has space marines, that's about the only similarities.

Space Marine is a lot more focused on getting stuck in to the fighting, and there's a much larger focus on melee combat. I hate seeing people calling it a Gears rip-off - it doesn't even play the same, and Warhammer was around first.

[sarshelyam]

Last I checked, Space Marines predated Gears by nearly 20 years...so if anyone is copying anyone. Yeah, you see what I'm getting at.

[joeorc]

when warhammer was first created, the very first core game mechanics an game design for warhammer 40k was in 1980 the game was "Laserburn" it was the very core basic creation for Warhammer 40k. hell the designer was on the team that created warhammer 40k an the citidel Mini's.

Cliff was only 5 year's old at the time when warhammer40k was first developed. Laserburn was published in 1980

lmao

[nilamo]

Honestly anyone who doesn't see the similarities is deluding themselves. Naturally hardcore gamers as we are we try to deny this, it's all in the details we say. I dare you to play the games consecutively in front of non or casual gamers, they might think you reached a new level, but never would they guess they are too entirely different games. This however seems to apply to 99% of all the current gen games..

Anywayz other than that I enjoyed the game.