How Space Marine 2 stays authentic to the Warhammer 40K fanbase | Tim Willits interview

Tim Willits spent decades at id Software making titles like Doom, Quake and more. Now he’s the chief creative officer at Saber Interactive, a big game developer and publisher that was acquired by Embracer Group and then spun out again on its own after Embracer ran into financial trouble.

But Saber was back at the giant Gamescom expo event in Cologne, Germany, showing off games like Space Marine 2, based on the Warhammer 40K franchise that has been around since 1987. After a very long hiatus, Saber’s Dmitry Grigorenko and others pitched the idea of doing Space Marine 2 as a sequel to Space Marine, a shooter video game which debuted in 2011. Games Workshop, which owns the franchise, gave it a thumbs up. Now, at last, Space Marine 2 is launching into early access today.