With the Inquisition Watching, Tight-Lipped Saber Chief Won't Say Much About Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3, but He Has Revealed Games Workshop Is Offering Up 'Some Ideas That Are Amazing'

During my 30 infinitesimal interrogation with Saber Interactive improvement main Tim Willits astatine gamescom 2025, helium wouldn’t accidental overmuch astatine each astir Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3, contempt my repeated efforts. I’m not surprised, really. With Games Workshop and steadfast Focus Entertainment watching his each connection similar the Inquisition connected the hunt for heresy, Willits indispensable beryllium cautious to support his cards adjacent to his thorax oregon other hazard being declared a heretic.

But I was capable to get something retired of him connected the hotly anticipated sequel, namely that Games Workshop is throwing each sorts of ideas astatine Saber close now, and immoderate of them are seemingly "amazing."

I began my foray into Space Marine 3 territory by asking Willits wherefore the crippled was announced comparatively soon aft the merchandise of Space Marine 2. Willits dodged the question, saying: “It's conscionable however we enactment with Focus… Again, it was massively palmy for us, Space Marine 2, and Focus.”

That it was indeed. Space Marine 2 whitethorn good beryllium the astir palmy Warhammer 40,000 video crippled ever made. It sold implicit 7 cardinal copies little than a twelvemonth aft going connected sale, and, by Willits’ ain admission, changed everything for Saber Interactive. Even Games Workshop itself has talked astir the wealth it’s made from the game.

Space Marine 3 was inevitable, then, but questions remain. Where volition Lieutenant Titus and co caput next? Will we spot caller factions? Will Saber grow co-op beyond the three-player limit? Will determination beryllium existent meaningful PvP?

Alas, Willits wasn’t acceptable to reply these types of questions, but did tease ideas are coming from Games Workshop itself — and Saber is excited by them.

“We're moving with Games Workshop, they’re the champion ever,” helium said. “And there’s specified a affluent beingness that we’re pulling worldly [from]. And they've fixed america immoderate ideas that are amazing. They person fixed america immoderate truly chill ideas. Their brains are conscionable like… wow. So tons of ace large ideas from Games Workshop.”

Without spoiling the Space Marine 2 campaign, it powerfully suggests a continuation of the story, and IGN has reported connected the force faction we’ll astir apt spot successful Space Marine 3.

Some Space Marine 2 fans were acrophobic astir the timing of Space Marine 3's announcement, but Games Workshop has said Space Marine 3 "is apt years distant from release,” and Saber has promised to proceed to enactment Space Marine 2 for immoderate clip to come.

Willits pointed to the enactment Saber's World War Z has enjoyed arsenic the exemplary it’s pursuing for Space Marine 2. A 2nd twelvemonth of Space Marine 2 content, which Focus has discussed, is already connected the way. But volition Space Marine 2 get communicative DLC?

“We person immoderate plans,” Willits teased, “but we person to enactment with Focus to get the close announcement. But thing is disconnected the table.”

In the shorter term, Space Marine 2 is acceptable for Patch 10 successful September to observe the game’s archetypal anniversary. Check retired each the details here.

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