History VideoGame / Warhammer40000Spacemarine

* EasyLevelTrick: The game has a bunch of achievements awarded for playing through an entire chapter with nothing but a specific combination of two weapons, most of which are severely hampered by low ammo capacity. However, crafty players found out that you don't actually need to play through an entire chapter to unlock them; just starting from specific checkpoints and reaching the next one counts as well, saving completionists a whole lot of time and frustration.

* ChainsawGood: Your main melee weapon is the Chainsword.

* CanonForeigner: A non-character example in the form of the Vengeance Launcher: An experimental remote-detonation GrenadeLauncher developed by Graia's Techpriests for use by the Space Marines, and [[JustifiedTrope not yet cleared for use off-world]]. Sidonus and Leandros poke fun at its AwesomeMcCoolName.

* AwesomeMcCoolName:
** Warboss Grimskull.
** Nemeroth also sounds awesomely evil. Unless you are aware of quite popular Nemiroff vodka brand. Then it gets even more awesome in the way of hilarious, as main modus operandi of Nemeroth is influence.

* AnAxeToGrind:
** Captain Titus can use a Power Axe, and they're available to Space Marines in multi-player as well.
** Chaos Marines use [[ChainsawGood Chain Axes]] instead.
** The Orks boys are generally armed with Choppas.

-->'''Titus''': ''"The [[BigBookOfWar Codex Astartes]] is a set of rules. They guide us... shape us as [[TheParagon Ultra]][[SuperSoldier marines]]... teach us to hold [[LawfulGood duty and honour sacred above all]]. [[ToBeLawfulOrGood But how we live with those rules is the true test]] of a SpaceMarine. And ''[[NewMeat you]]'' [[LawfulStupid have failed]]."''

* MiniMecha: The eponymous Dreadnoughts in the Dreadnought Assault DLC. As with [[UpToEleven anything in the 40K universe]], the term "Mini" is [[BiggerIsBetter stretched quite far]]; the Dreads stand about 20 feet tall with equally wide shoulders and two {{BFG}}s for arms. Heck, they're bigger than many pieces of level architecture!

* OneManArmy: Do you think that the protagonists of earlier shooters were One Man Armies? [[UpToEleven You won't after playing this game.]]

* OriginalGeneration: The Vengeance Launcher.

* SupernaturalIsPurple: Almost all of the Chaos energy in the game is portrayed as purple.

** [[CrapsackWorld Appropriately]] for the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} universe]] the game is set in, many of the audio logs do ''not'' end well.

* BigDamnVillains: When all seems lost, [[spoiler:Nemeroth]] has seemingly killed Warboss Grimskull and has our heroes on the ropes, the Warboss proves he is not quite as dead as the [[spoiler:Chaos Sorcerer]] would like to think. The ensuing fight allows the Marines to escape.

** Nobz and other larger varieties of Orks.

** 'Ard Boyz aren't as tough as Nobz or Chaos Space Marines and fight mostly like regular Boyz, but wear heavy armor that gives them decent resistance against attacks.

* EliteMooks:

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Leandros' [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishing moments]] at the beginning of the game are questioning Captain Titus' combat strategies, as they are contradictory to those established in the Codex Astartes. Later, [[{{Kneecapping}} he blows the knees out from under an ork]], watches it crawl around for a moment, then unloads his bolter into it and keeps going even when the ork is clearly dead, only stopping when Titus barks at him: sadism like that is quite unbecoming of a discipline-obsessed Ultramarine and speaks to some instability. He also shows absolutely no tolerance for anything involving the Warp. [[spoiler:This is what eventually leads to Leandros reporting Titus to the Inquisition for supposed Warp taint.]]

*** [[spoiler:Inquisitor Drogan]]'s own turrets shoot at him, and voice recognition software doesn't respond to his orders. Why? [[spoiler:Because they both recognise that [[DemonicPossession it]] isn't him.]]

''Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine'' is a ThirdPersonShooter published by Creator/{{THQ}} (with the publishing rights later changing hands to Creator/{{Sega}} after THQ went out of business in 2013) and developed by the creators of the ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'', ''VideoGame/CompanyOfHeroes'' and ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'' series, Relic Entertainment. While the aforementioned games are RealTimeStrategy games, the company has created a ThirdPersonShooter before, ''VideoGame/TheOutfit'', set in UsefulNotes/WorldWar2, which received mixed reviews.

* BadassBoast: Pretty much any time Titus says he'll do something, given how, at best, he only has Sidonus and Leandros backing him up.

A sequel was announced during the 2021 Game Awards Show.

* HighlyConspicuousUniform: In keeping with the franchise, Captain Titus and the other Ultramarines wear brightly colored blue and gold suits of power armor that make them stand out against the battlefield as opposed to the Imperial Guard's olive-drab flak armor. This is deliberately invoked in-universe as the Imperial Guard are only human and must hide from their enemies to survive while the Adeptus Astartes know what their reputation does to enemy morale and therefore make themselves as visible as possible.
* HumongousMecha: The Orks seek to loot Warlord-class Battle Titans being housed on the Forge World. One named "Invictus" is seen early on, [[spoiler:[[ChekhovsGun and it's later used to great effect to sever the Orbital Spire, Nemeroth's stronghold]].]] Evidence of other Titans can be found, such as the volcano cannon suspended on a crane that gets dropped onto a mass of Orks.

* BigDamnHeroes: You and your squad. The Guardsmen all view you as this when you come charging out of nowhere to help them fend off huge Ork and [[spoiler:Chaos]] assaults.

* AxeCrazy: Chaos Space Marines, especially those wielding Chain Axes.

In celebration of the game's 10th anniversary, the game was repackaged as ''Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine: Anniversary Edition'' on Steam, coming bundled with all DLC at no extra cost, as well as some extra bonuses like the official soundtrack and artbook.

* CanonForeigner: A non-character example in the form of the Vengeance Launcher: An experimental remote-detonation GrenadeLauncher developed by Graia's Techpriests for use by the Space Marines, and [[JustifiedTrope not yet cleared for use off-world]].