Space Marine

Overview

Appearances in Video Games

• Games based on the movie Aliens typically has the player take control of, or fight against the United States Colonial Marines. The USCM also appears in games based on the Aliens Versus Predator property.
• In the Doom series, the player takes control of an unnamed Space Marine forced to work for the Union Aerospace Corporation (UAC) on Mars, often referred to as "Doomguy." In the game, he battles against the forces of Hell who have somehow crossed over into our world. He returns in Doom II: Hell on Earth taking the fight to the demon occupied Earth, and again in Doom III, a retelling of the events in the first game.
• Games based on Games Workshop's Warhammer: 40,000 property, such as the Dawn of War series from Relic, feature the Imperial Space Marines and their Chaos counterparts, Chaos Space Marines. The Space Marines in this game are genetically enhanced super soldiers, and wear bulky power armor for protection. Space Marines in 40k draw many parallels to Knights in Warhammer fantasy, and have an almost blind devotion to the Emperor of mankind. Chaos Space Marines are their evil counterparts who betrayed the Emperor thousands of years prior.
• The Halo series of video games features the fictional United Nations Space Command Marine Corps in every game in the series. Though technologically inferior to their alien nemesis, The Covenant, they still manage to hold their own in battle, and even gain the respect of some factions within The Covenant, such as the Elites. The legendary super soldier, Master Chief, fights along side the USNC Marines.
• Timesplitters 2 and Time Splitters: Future Perfect features a protagonists known as Sergeant Cortez who is part of a Human Space Marine unit fighting a war against Aliens who, instead of invading Earth directly, attack humanity though the use Time Crystals to travel throughout time, altering Human history with the end goal of bringing earth to ruin in the present.
• In Mass Effect, the Human System Alliance Military has its own Marine corps. They take heavy casualties during the Geth invasion of Eden Prime. Gunnery Chief Ashley Williams is part of the Alliance Marines who survives Eden Prime. She joins Commander Sheppard's team as a potential love interest.
  
• The Metroid series features the Galactic Federation Marine Corps, who at times aid Samus. They feature heavily into the story of Metroid Prime 2: Echoes and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption.
• Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft series features a playable human faction, known as the Terrans. The Terrans have a unit called the "Terran Marine," and serve as the backbone of the Terran Military. Marines in this game are typically culled from Convicts or otherwise undesirables, though they aren't entirely made up of them. They wear Power Armor quite similar in form and function to the Marines in Warhammer 40k.
• The Wing Commander games, though almost exclusively focused on flight combat, does feature a Marine Corps as part of the Terran Confederation.
• Games based in the Star Wars universe, especially those that take place durring the Clone Wars feature Troopers who, while generally aren't specifically refered to as "Marines," do many of the things typical space marines are known for. Though it is worth noting that there is a unit of Clone Troopers known as the Galactic Marines who have been seen in games that take place durring Episode III, such as Star Wars: Battlefront II.