Preview: Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 - One Of The Best Co-Op Shooters We've Played This Decade

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Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 is without question one of the finest co-op shooters we’ve played in the past decade. If teaming up with your friends to brutalise hordes of Tyranids sounds like your bag, then you’ll likely join us in our new obsession. From its grand vistas to the tiniest details, every inch of this sci-fi spectacle is charged with decades of masterful storytelling, doing everything it can to make you feel like the living embodiment of badassery. Admittedly, Warhammer 40,000 has always seemed like a step too far into the void for us ‘casual nerd’ types. Yet, despite our ignorance of the Imperium's vast lore, Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 is a must-play title for Xbox Series X|S gamers in 2024.

Now, as much as we’d love to discuss how well Saber Interactive ported Space Marine 2 to Xbox Series consoles, our hands-on time was with a PC beta build - and no, you can’t blame the Series S for this one. So, we’re going to have to save our thoughts on performance for our full review in September, but as for today, we’ll focus on how Space Marine 2 felt to play, the quality of its content, and our overall experience with its core gameplay loop - y’know, the fun stuff! In this beta, we got to sample one main campaign mission, as well as two co-operative operations, all of which are playable with friends in three-player co-op. Although these missions took us only a handful of hours to complete, we found ourselves spending more than twenty hours fully immersed in the game—and even still we’re driven by an urge to play more instead of writing any of this up.

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