Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2 Developer Diary

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A trailer for Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine 2

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00:00Space Marine 2 is a third-person action shooter set in the grim, dark future of Warhammer

00:1240,000 that puts you in the middle of a war against the tyrannies that control an imperial

00:17solar system.

00:22You're right in the thick of the action and hopefully people have never experienced that

00:26kind of aspect of the Warhammer world.

00:29When we feel that it is the combination of all the things that we've worked so hard for

00:34so many years to do come to life.

00:37We wanted action in the sky, on the land, we wanted flames, we wanted explosions, it

00:42is a passion piece for all of the people working at Sabre.

00:49When I started working on the story I spent months reading Black Library novels like No

00:53No Fear to really get my head inside these characters, to understand the Ultramarines

00:58and who they are.

01:01So the Space Marines were created for that great crusade, they were a necessary component

01:08in a war for galactic unity and the Ultramarines are one of the most iconic and famous of those

01:14Space Marine forces that have endured through the 10,000 years from their creation at the

01:18Great Crusade to the stagnation of the 41st Millennium.

01:24Most human beings in this world will never see a Space Marine, they're the stuff of legends,

01:28they're known as the Angels of Death and so when one appears on the battlefield it's like

01:33seeing an Angel of God.

01:39So Titus is a Lieutenant in our game, he's sort of a relic of a time when he was the

01:48only Ultramarine once passed, you know this guy is an unstoppable force but you've also

01:53got to find some kind of grit and hardness that shows that he's been there, done that,

02:00seen more than all the other Ultramarines he's now in this unit with.

02:04So we did the best we could in motion capture but it is very different when you get to see

02:08these amazing graphics on the screen and what hundreds and hundreds of people who work for

02:11Sabre Interactive come up with and create, it's incredible.

02:15Lieutenant Titus, Ultramarines, Second Company.

02:19For me to go right back to the bare basics of what acting is about and just be in an

02:23empty space but on the day it's about creating it and giving it a base of reality.

02:28Lieutenant Titus, praise the Omnisire.

02:31Shut it down, now.

02:35It's your journey, you're the player, you're with Titus and the Ultramarines, if you can't

02:39connect to their faces when their helmets are off and you can't read those emotions

02:42then there's something lacking and that's my job is to try and bring these guys to life.

02:48I think as the player is going to see a very, very different Titus.

02:53If we rupture the staging tanks, direct the flow into the valley, we can flood the area

02:58around the base.

02:59Right from the very beginning we didn't just want to create any third person shooter, we

03:05wanted to create a game that embodied the galactic warfare that you come to know from

03:11the franchise.

03:19So the technology that drives Space Marine 2 is our own technology.

03:23So the team's gotten very, very good at creating signature moments in this game.

03:28The signature moment is the swarm.

03:31We have a swarm technology that allows us to have hundreds of these Tyranids attacking

03:36the player and we're also able to build a huge expanse where you have highly detailed

03:44characters and models up close but you can see off in the distance, you can see that

03:48swarm come at you, you can see the enemy waves coming at you and you will get down and dirty

03:53blowing them all away.

03:56You feel like you have an infinite universe in front of you.

04:00You have sandbox games where you can wander around but this goes one step further.

04:04It kind of almost feels like wherever you are in the action, wherever you look there

04:08is another company of marines down there fighting off swarms of Tyranids and you've got up there

04:14we've got ships delivering and launching and drop ships landing, everything's around you.

04:19One of the things people love about this world is the ability to customise your character.

04:26You take these little miniatures, you pose them the way you want, you give them the weapons

04:29that you want, you paint them the way you want.

04:32We wanted to take that same approach and put it in the game so you can do the same

04:36thing with your character.

04:37The game offers three modes, a co-op story campaign that you can play with your friends,

04:42a highly replayable PvE mode with lots of progression and customisation and a PvP mode

04:47that puts you against other players.

04:49The more you play these PvE missions the deeper you can go into the progression of these characters

04:53unlocking skills and perks and weapons and as you do that our famous AI director is able

05:00to increase the challenge, throw tougher enemies at you in more challenging situations.

05:04As you've seen with some of our other titles we have a track record of supporting our titles

05:11through quality of life updates, through paid DLC and larger add-ons.

05:17So with Space Marine 2 because the universe is so rich and there's so much to draw from

05:22we're really excited about what story we can tell and what things we can continue to do

05:27in this game.

05:28The truth is that we've been kind of circling like sharks around Games Workshop for a long

05:33time trying to get hold of this game.

05:37We believe at Saber that we have the story, the gunplay, the technology, the experience

05:43and the passion to deliver what fans want.

05:46So I'm scared but I'm excited.

05:49Our team is, you know, they love working on this game, it's one of their favourite games

05:53that they've ever worked on.

05:54So to see what 10 years of development on that Space Marine engine franchise story is

06:00going to be like for Space Marine 2, I think everybody involved with Warhammer is really

06:03excited to see that.

06:05No matter what the fans are asking for, trust me, we're asking for even more.

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