Video games Workshop and Sega’s try to offer the unique Warhammer 40,000: House Marine an opportunity to copy House Marine 2’s success appears to have failed.
House Marine: Grasp Crafted Version is a re-release (not a remaster, in accordance with Sega and Video games Workshop) of the unique 2011 House Marine that brings enhanced textures and character fashions, 4k decision, remastered audio, and quality-of-life gameplay and UI enhancements.
Sadly, it appears to have failed miserably to recapture the essence of the unique. It at present sits at a “Principally Detrimental” score on Steam, and it nonetheless has underneath 100 critiques.
Fewer Gamers Than The Unique
The present Steam model of the unique House Marine, 2021’s Anniversary Version, remains to be accessible for buy alongside the Grasp Crafted Version, with a “Very Constructive” score in distinction to the re-release.
Widespread complaints within the Steam critiques are principally centered on the value for its minor modifications, lifeless multiplayer modes, and a few efficiency points, usually coming to the consensus that House Marine: Grasp Crafted Version looks like a low-effort money seize for $39.99, and anybody curious about Demetrian Titus’s origins could be higher off sticking with the Anniversary Version.
The Anniversary Version has the identical base worth, however goes on sale continuously each on Steam and on different storefronts.
Not solely that, however, in accordance with SteamDB’s charts for each the Anniversary and Grasp Crafted Editions, the unique has roughly 4 occasions the gamers of the re-release, each at present at time of writing and at its 24-hour peak, to say nothing of an all-time peak that’s nearly 100 occasions larger.
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That being stated, neither has something on House Marine 2’s all-time peak that’s nonetheless a full order of magnitude larger than that of House Marine: Anniversary Version, to not point out its ongoing developer help, with the current “Trygon” replace and Siege Mode coming later this month.
Talking of House Marine 2, in stark distinction to House Marine: Grasp Crafted Version, the sequel just lately handed a significant gross sales milestone of seven million copies, Focus Leisure and Saber Interactive introduced, and is usually seen as a historic excessive level for Warhammer 40,000 video video games.
It is even paved the best way for one more sequel coming sooner or later.
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