The bloody battles of Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 make for a great photo mode | Gaming

I’ve already said my piece on the hulking bugstomper in our Space Marine 2 review, but I’d like to celebrate one more thing about it – the photo mode. This is a fairly standard feature for a lot of blockbuster games, but in the world of Warhammer 40K there are so many mega-scale battles with pitch-perfect composition that I found it hard to resist hitting pause and taking a handful of snaps every few minutes. With a keen eye (and a beefy PC) you can capture some wonderfully violent moments.

Spoiler warning: I’ll be showing stuff from later in the game. So if you can’t stand the smell of development fluid, get out of the red room.

I’m sticking to snapshotting metaphors because, at times, it does feel like you become a war photographer of sorts. It shouldn’t be a huge…