Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine/Awesome

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  • Meta: In a grim, bleak market of cover-based third-person-shooters, the developers of Space Marine essentially said: "Cover is for pussies." There is no crouch button. Health is regenerated not by hiding behind walls and crossing your fingers, but by spilling the blood of His Majesty the Emperor of Mankind's foes.
    • Which brings us to: Health packs have never looked greener and savage: a mob of Grechin is the equivalent of "here's a bunch of health. Enjoy" (you can use an execution on Grechin without having to stun them, making it "press E for free health"). Fridge Brilliance will have you realizing the "about time, lets wade into them" mentality is how Space Marines are supposed to act.
  • The game opens with Titus (with Jump Pack) singlehandedly dropping down onto an Ork frigate (after avoiding all those shipwrecks in the air), massacring half the crew, and shooting it down before riding the flaming wreckage down to the planet's surface. This is the game's tutorial level.
    • You forgot the best part. How he managed to drop the frigate? He turned its main gun (firing all the time) against its bridge. Literally.
  • The first time you used the ground pound with the Jump Pack. Bonus points if you actually directly hit an enemy on your way down.
  • This exchange:

Grimskull: "I aint finished with you yet, Space Marine!!"
Titus: "But I am finished with you, Ork."

[Titus proceeds to make Grimskull's freakin' head explode!]

  • The War Boss should also get an honorary mention. As Nemeroth is summoned, he sics several Bloodletters to jump at the Boss and topples him off of the rather high platform. Later into the cutscene, the War Boss climbs right back up ready to have several goes at Nemeroth, no worse for the wear. As he knocks both of them off the platform, it's clear the ork is having the time of his life.
  • Beating the hell right out of a Daemon Prince while free falling from a ruined space elevator? Holy shit!
    • Not to mention literally crushing said Daemon Prince's head with your bare hands.
  • Marching across a Chaos-held bridge with a Tactical Squad of Blood Ravens behind you and halfway across, a squad of Ultramarines drop in from orbit behind the force you're battling!
  • At the very end of the single player campaign, Titus delivers a truly epic verbal smackdown to Leandros who called the Inquisition down on Titus and labeled him a heretic because Leandros followed the Codex to the letter.

Titus: "The Codex Astartes is a set of rules. They guide us... shape us as Ultramarines ... teach us to hold duty and honor sacred above all. But how we live with those rules is the true test of a Space Marine. And you have failed."

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