
There’s one thing within the water for video games that function troopers in blue armor, as a result of after Helldivers 2, developer Saber Interactive’s long-awaited Warhammer 40K: Area Marine 2 is the most recent massive hit of 2024.
It’s been such an ideal hit, that chatting with IGN, chief artistic officer Tim Willits spoke about how the success of Area Marine 2 will impression the way forward for the studio.
Principally, it’ll be optimistic. Massively optimistic, and it’s additionally opened the door to a 3rd Area Marine recreation, and DLC for Area Marine 2.
“With Area Marine 2, it actually does change the whole lot. Throughout our firm social gathering, I gave a bit 30-second speech and I informed the entire staff, this modifications the whole lot we do transferring ahead, from our small video games like our third-party publishing video games, to A Quiet Place subsequent month. Now we have Poisonous Commando arising with Focus quickly. The whole lot that we do now, this modifications.
And as workers, and I do know this firsthand, when you could have a giant hit and you’ve got that web type of recognition, there’s extra ardour and there’s extra duty for the standard that you just do. And also you take a look at your self by a unique lens. And typically that success lens could be a little harmful as a result of then you definitely get so paranoid about ensuring the whole lot is nice that you just overstress about issues, nevertheless it’s that success lens that actually drives superb video games into the longer term. So I do consider that by the success lens that now we have, we are going to simply make much better merchandise sooner or later.
Our recreation director Dmitry Grigorenko, he has proposed some story concepts that might both be DLC or a sequel. We’re actually simply catching our breath. That is two weeks out. We simply must get the mud to settle. However I can confidently say that we are going to not disappoint our Warhammer followers sooner or later. It’s too massive of successful! I do know that’s an apparent factor to say, however hopefully we’ll be engaged on Area Marine content material for a very long time.”
It’s thrilling to listen to how the success of Area Marine 2 is permitting Saber to do extra. Hopefully we’ll hear information about DLC quickly.
Supply – [IGN]

