News Space Marine 2 Heavily Influenced By Gears Of War, Dev Always Wanted To Make 'A 360 Sequel'

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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 is turning out to be a surprisingly huge hit for developer Saber Interactive, with ideas about a third game already floating around at the studio just weeks after the sequel's launch. Having said that, the second game was a long time coming, but the team says that it always had a strong idea for creating a throwback to the Xbox 360 era with SM2.

Talking to GamesRadar in a recent interview, Saber's Dmitriy Grigorenko mentioned that the original Space Marine 2 pitch was to "make a perfect sequel", a sequel that is effectively "a 360 game with a story campaign, some PvP, and a horde mode to accompany it". We'd say the team was largely successful in that endeavor.

"We wanted to make a perfect sequel [to Space Marine] – that was in the original pitch,
The 'perfect sequel' implies it's the exact same game – a 360 game with a story campaign, some PvP, and a horde mode to accompany it. We wanted to make a classic experience."

Elsewhere in the interview, Saber's creative director Oliver Hollis-Leick reminisced about playing Gears of War at a friend's house back in the day, and how a recent visit led to them playing through Space Marine 2 instead. The Gears games certainly seemed to have influenced this Warhammer subseries quite a lot, and playing through SM2 with that same friend "was just this amazing flashback experience!", the developer said.