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Space Marine 2 Developer Explains How World War Z's Engine Helps Make The Game More Epic

Saber Interactive, the studio behind World War Z and the upcoming Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, explains how its tech helps make the game special.

gamerant.com

As Space Marine 2's recent gameplay trailers have shown, the game's battle sequences feature hundreds upon hundreds of active combatants running around all at once. According to Hollis-Leick's new PC Gamer interview, the game is supposed to be "bigger than its genre brethren, and bigger than its predecessor." The reason this is possible, specifically, lies in one of Saber Interactive's previous productions: World War Z. "We have our own proprietary engine at Saber which allowed us to do things in World War Z that you couldn't get from any other engine," explained Hollis-Leick. The software makes it possible for a game to simultaneously show hundreds of interactive enemies without an apparent reduction in visual fidelity, a crucial aspect of why Space Marine 2 looks as epic and grand as it does.

 

[simpatico]

The mobs in WWZ are very impressive. Imaging that scale in the 40K universe makes my pants extremely tight. Like skin tight. Be right back fellas...

One of my most hyped games!

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

Space Marine 2 Developer Explains How World War Z's Engine Helps Make The Game More Epic

Saber Interactive, the studio behind World War Z and the upcoming Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2, explains how its tech helps make the game special.

gamerant.com

As Space Marine 2's recent gameplay trailers have shown, the game's battle sequences feature hundreds upon hundreds of active combatants running around all at once. According to Hollis-Leick's new PC Gamer interview, the game is supposed to be "bigger than its genre brethren, and bigger than its predecessor." The reason this is possible, specifically, lies in one of Saber Interactive's previous productions: World War Z. "We have our own proprietary engine at Saber which allowed us to do things in World War Z that you couldn't get from any other engine," explained Hollis-Leick. The software makes it possible for a game to simultaneously show hundreds of interactive enemies without an apparent reduction in visual fidelity, a crucial aspect of why Space Marine 2 looks as epic and grand as it does.

DF has been praising the technology used here. I think SM2 could turn out pretty damn good.

 

[Shut0wen]

Saber is pretty medicore for a series that needed a sequel so bad

 

[Punished Miku]

Didn't realize it was the same developers. The stuff in WWZ is impressive. Pretty interested now.

 

[MiguelItUp]

Cannot wait for this to come out. Really excited to see what they're able to do with this engine. Now I'm expecting huge mobs in some cases. Yesssssss.

 

[SirKicksalot]

Maybe one day that technology will be put to good use in a Timeshift sequel.

 

[Longcat]

This is one of like 3 games I look forward to this year. Hope they don't fuck it up. The first one was so much fun.

 

[GymWolf]

Good, their horde tech was great.

 

[nemiroff]

For some reason this is not mentioned in the article but they're using the Swarm engine which btw is also used in Snowrunner.

 

[FunkMiller]

Praying to the emperor this is going to be a great game.

 

[Crayon]

Hopefully it's good.

I'm a little tired of the word epic.

 

[SJRB]

Can't wait to purge Xenos scum. For the Emperor!

 

[IDKFA]

Really looking forward to this game. Looks fantastic of what little we've seen so far.

 

[Kadve]

Didn't realize it was the same developers. The stuff in WWZ is impressive. Pretty interested now.

They have been kinda quiet about their exact identity. Might have something to do with the fact that Russian made stuff isn't too hot right now.

 

[CGNoire]

100s? What? I counted like at most 50 or so in last trailer they released.

 

[Mephisto40]

Please tell me they arent turning it into a 4x third person shooter

 

[BlackTron]

Release date when??

 

[SJRB]

Release date when??

Hopefully sooner rather than later.

40k videogames could use a win again.

 

[simpatico]

I think it's best to keep it simple. Less is more with this title and developer combo. Just give me 20 hours of razor sharp set pieces are purging. Don't overthink it.

 

[fart town usa]

Looks dope to me. If there's 2 player campaign coop I'm in day 1.

 

[Esca]

I'm there day one. Love 40k and space marine

 

[KyoZz]

SM1 was awesome, they have some big shoes to fill.
But so far it look good.