Saber Interactive creative director Tim Willits discussed the implications for the studio of the recent success of third-person shooter Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 in an interview with IGN.
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Let us remember that the day after the full release, sales of Space Marine 2 reached 2 million copies, and the peak online on Steam exceeded 225 thousand people, which became a record for games based on Warhammer 40,000 and Warhammer.
According to Willits, the success of Space Marine 2 changes “everything” for Saber: from its own developments (the executive mentioned John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando) to the projects of the publishing division.
Willits did not specify whether the success of Space Marine 2 will help the long-suffering but lively remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: “Right now we are focused on development. We’ll be happy to tell you more when the time comes.”
News on John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando shouldn’t be long in coming (Image source: Focus Entertainment)
For example, Space Marine 2 director Dmitry Grigorenko has already put forward several ideas that could form the basis of both DLC for the game and a potential Space Marine 3.
Willits added that for Space Marine 3 the studio needs to re-enlist the support of publisher Focus and rights holders Games Workshop: “I would be happy to do that, yes. Yes, yes, yes! There are so many factions… interesting orders too…”
«I can confidently say that we will not disappoint our Warhammer fans in the future. I’ll say the obvious, but I hope we’ll be working on Space Marine content for a long time,” Willits shared.
Space Marine 2’s budget was half that of Doom Eternal (Image source: tornadoqt on Steam)