"Doom introduced the grizzled space marine to the gaming world 15 years ago, dreamed into existence by someone at id Software, probably just minutes after watching Aliens. The grizzled space marine character so captivated the imagination of first-person shooter fans that they decided to have him star in every single FPS game since."
As a corollary to the above, either your character will be a generic low-level grunt (frequently the New Meat) or a generic ultra-elite soldier. Either way, The Player Character is almost never an officer.
After the boss fight there will usually be some kind of timed escape run to get away from a time bomb or self destruct sequence activated by killing the Load-Bearing Boss.
Your primary weapon will be some form of assault rifle. You will probably have a nearly useless pistol in case the rifle runs out of ammunition. Over the course of the game, you will have access to a heavier machine gun, a shotgun, a grenade launcher, a rocket launcher, and a sniper rifle. You will probably also have access to some sort of advanced energy weapon (with a high chance of being BFG), and a powered melee weapon, such as a chainsaw or "vibro" sword.
Much of the above comes from the tendency to rip-off take inspiration from Aliens and Doom (which, in turn, are heavily inspired by Starship Troopers) along with sheer They Fight Crime-level parallel evolution. Just remember that this isn't necessarily bad or good, though, and that the cliches can be excused if the various rules are applied, especially Sci-Fi Awesomeness, and just Plain Old Fun. However, when worse comes to worst, there is also one of the ultimate rules: It's just a game.
Advent Rising starts with the generic military elite Gideon's entire homeplanet destroyed by Scary Dogmatic Aliens, after which he proceeds to gain lots of Stock Superpowers, kick much ass, and save the day. The twist in this case is that for the finale, you get to fight the person whom you chose not to save at the beginning of the game. To his defense, Gideon often speaks and he is not bald.
Metroid Prime 2 features a squad of Space Marines landing on the planet Aether who are quickly slaughtered by the local indigenous extradimensional bug monsters. Reading the dead troopers' logs reveal that they conformed as closely to the stereotype as they possibly could. Did we mention that Aliens was a huge influence on the Metroid series?
The Doom series, the Trope Maker. You play as a silent Space Marine who was deployed with his squad to a space base over Mars which was attacked in orbit. Everyone else in said squad dies before the game even starts, which (according to the manual) you hear over your radio. And your enemies are demons who appeared out of nowhere in a space base. That's seven of the tropes right there. It also established the chainsaw, high-energy weapon, shotgun, and rocket launcher as standard Space Marine armaments. The similarities to Aliens are to be expected, because the game was originally supposed to be based onAliens until id Software gave up on the idea because of 20th Century Fox's strict licensing demands, and the game was re-imagined as a mix between Aliens and Evil Dead.
Most sci-fi shooters from the late 2000s are space marine themed. At E3 2010, many reviewers lamented how almost the entire lineup for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC consisted of space marine FPS's.
The Halo series. The Chief speaks (occasionally) during cutscenes, he holds the rank of Master Chief Petty Officer, is technically a Naval NCO, and he may or may not be bald, but every other point still stands.
Halopedia says his hair is short from a description from the Halo: The Flood novel. It states the possibility of his hair-line thinning due to his being forty years old.
The 2005 version of Area51 (with David Duchovny). Although the player is a 'mission specialist' rather than a new grunt the difference is almost purely semantic and the rest of the trope fits like a glove.
Quake 2 and 4. Both games hit every single bullet point above with a straight face. (bar a loaded boss for Quake 4)
Crysis, sort of. Nomad is an ordinary Earth Marine, but still fills a good number of the cliches. Surprisingly, he has both a voice and an officer rank.
Crysis 2 plays it even straighter.
Half-Life's Opposing Force expansion averts it. You're a normal Marine, forced into a unit normally meant for combat in hazardous/anomalous area], but doesn't have any other Modus Operandi - they're just that, normal marines.
Half-Life itself was a break from the trope. Half-Life 2 re-embraced this trope even tighter by making Gordon into a dimensional mercenary/freedom fighter, albeit not exactly by choice.
The Half-Life mod "Natural Selection" embraces this trope; one team plays space marines, the other, an invading alien species.
TimeSplitters falls into this category quite neatly also. The protagonist is bald, an elite trooper, lands on a hot zone with a lot more people that either die or for whatever reason don't go on for the rest of the game... yeah, one by one, it fills all the conditions. To be fair, the TimeSplitters series is largely a parody of other first person shooters and video games in general, so this makes sense.
Timeshift substitutes a military organization with a research organization owned by and infiltrated by the military, and IN SPACE! with In Steampunk Past, but obeys the remainder of the recipe. Rather oddly for the trope, you end up preventing all of the cutscene and first act deaths. Oh, and the main character might be the female researcher who gets blown up in the opening cutscene.
Marathon fits the bill fairly well (technically, the player takes the role of a security officer rather then a marine, but he's often called "The Marine" by fans anyway.)
Gunman Chronicles flirts with this trope, but ultimately manages to have its own style by having all the characters dress like 19th century Civil War soldiers.
Unreal II The Awakening was like this, which resulted in numerous complaints by fans of the original game who felt the developers had traded in the unique atmosphere of the first Unreal for a generic Space Marine storyline. Granted, Dalton and crew were given great characterisation that was a total aversion of the usual cliches, but the rest of the storyline and game design were pretty much 100% A Space Marine Is You.
Unreal Tournament 2003 also took some flak for for generic-looking Space Marine character designs.
Unreal Tournament III took everything from this trope and stuffed it right in. (With a handwave to explain why an eerily straight A Space Marine Is You game still plays like the earlier tournaments)
The 2008 reboot of Turok, to such a degree that Zero Punctuation spent the entire review ripping the game for it.
Also, Armorines another comic-licensed Acclaim FPS using the engine.
Star WarsRepublic Commando is such a straight example that it might even be a purposeful lampshading, given that the player characters are literally clones.
Deus Ex partially averts this trope, if one interprets UNATCO (the UN agency the protagonist works for) as a military organisation: JC Denton is not a space marine, but does fit many of the other clichés.
Samus Aran of Metroid fame is the idol of Space Marines in her universe. She is the lone survivor of a planet overrun by Space Pirates, taken in and given her ultra-modular battlesuit by the Chozo, and is a Heroic Mime, leading her to have very little personality of her own. However, Samus isn't really in the military (and is a woman). Metroid Prime 3: Corruption contains most of the clichés in the description. The Federation military to come out into their own, troopers alternating between seriously kicking ass and dying horribly.
StarCraft (despite being a strategy game) has Raynor (siding with the good aliens) and Kerrigan (forcibly changed into an evil alien) fit the bill close enough. Pretty much all the Terran units follow this trope, right down to the dropship pilots quoting "Aliens" when you click on them.
The campaign for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II is this trope, to the point where the opening narration explicitly states "You are that Space Marine". Rather impressive for a Real Time Strategy game with RPG elements.
Of course, it doesn't precisely mean the same thing as this trope. Here, the term 'Space Marine' means 'Jihading Space NaziSuper Soldier'.
Gears of War and Gears of War 2: you are veteran marine Marcus Fenix, a guy with little personality and no emotions. He wears trademark bulky armor, isn't afraid of anything, and most of his lines consist of less than five words. Those words are usually swears.. Parodied in Awesome Series.
Mass Effect shares many of these elements, despite actually being a lot more of a Role-Playing Game. And Commander Shepard has a face and can talk, and most of the squad survives.
Though he does have a five-o'-clock shadow in the default face.
The Silencer from the Crusader series of games is a textbook example, right down to the zero personality. However, in the intro for the original Crusader: No Remorse, we see the two other members of The Silencer's original squad - right before they're gunned down by their Bad Boss - and they've definitely got personality, arguing loudly about the morality of their recent refusal to gun down unarmed civilians on orders. The Silencer, however, didn't participate in the argument, remaining voiceless even then, so his bland personality might well be a character trait.
Dead Space plays all elements of the trope but the key one - your character is not military personel himself, just a simple civilian engineer who was assigned to a squad of proper space marines.
Ironically, a group of Space Marinesdo show up late in the game, but are almost immediately all utterly pwnt by the Necromorphs, possibly due to their "Rambo-ing out" mentality. Or because the plot says so.
