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: House Marine 2 is the most recent huge hit of 2024.
It’s been such a fantastic hit, that chatting with IGN, chief artistic officer Tim Willits spoke about how the success of House Marine 2 will influence the way forward for the studio.
Principally, it’ll be constructive. Massively constructive, and it’s additionally opened the door to a 3rd House Marine sport, and DLC for House Marine 2.
“With House Marine 2, it actually does change every part. Throughout our firm get together, I gave just a little 30-second speech and I advised the entire group, this adjustments every part we do shifting ahead, from our small video games like our third-party publishing video games, to A Quiet Place subsequent month. We’ve Poisonous Commando arising with Focus quickly. Every little thing that we do now, this adjustments.
And as staff, and I do know this firsthand, when you’ve got an enormous hit and you’ve got that web sort of recognition, there’s extra ardour and there’s extra duty for the standard that you simply do. And also you have a look at your self by way of a special lens. And generally that success lens generally is a little harmful as a result of you then get so paranoid about ensuring every part is nice that you simply overstress about issues, however it’s that success lens that actually drives wonderful video games into the long run. So I do imagine that by way of the success lens that we’ve got, we’ll simply make much better merchandise sooner or later.
Our sport 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 have to 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 huge of successful! I do know that’s an apparent factor to say, however hopefully we’ll be engaged on House Marine content material for a very long time.”
It’s thrilling to listen to how the success of House Marine 2 is permitting Saber to do extra. Hopefully we’ll hear information about DLC quickly.
Supply – [IGN]