Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 Is Officially in the Works — So Which Chapters Could It Feature, and Which Enemy Factions Could You Fight Against?

The astonishment announcement that Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 3 is officially successful development, coming conscionable six months aft the record-breaking merchandise of Space Marine 2, has surely got fans excited. Now the particulate has settled connected the news, thoughts inevitably crook to wherever the heroic Demetrian Titus volition caput adjacent connected his 3rd video crippled adventure.

Warning! Spoilers for Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 follow.

Let’s concisely recap the events of Space Marine 2 earlier we spell connected to speculate astir what Space Marine 3 mightiness person successful store.

Space Marine 2 sees Titus of the Ultramarines spell up against the Tyranids and the Thousand Suns Traitor Legion successful a run that ends up with a monolithic conflict against a demon service and adjacent a travel to the warp. With the assistance of Ultramarines Chapter Master Marneus Calgar, Titus successfully fends disconnected some force factions earlier he’s sent connected a mysterious ngo that teases the continuation of the communicative successful a sequel.

Now connected to the speculation. Space Marine 3 looks definite to diagnostic the Necrons, Warhammer 40,000’s deathless skeletal robot xenos, successful immoderate capacity. One Space Marine 2 ngo that takes Titus heavy wrong the bowels of an alien satellite shows past and mysterious partition markings that are a wide motion to the Necrons.

There’s adjacent a dataslate (Space Marine 2's audio logs) that reveals Necron constructs person been sidesplitting Techpriests. You tin spot these constructs lying astir the place.

Indeed, during the 3rd enactment of the campaign, Titus heads to a Necron Tomb World packed with Necron buildings and technology. Some players thought the xenos would marque a astonishment quality arsenic a 3rd force faction successful the campaign, fixed the quality of the mission. Alas, they did not.

Could different force factions besides crook up successful Space Marine 3? Space Marine 2 does not uncover the quality of Titus’ concealed caller ngo (the Warhammer 40,000 animation successful Amazon’s Secret Level anthology, which acts arsenic a Space Marine 2 sequel of sorts, doesn’t uncover overmuch of anything), but with the eternally suspicious Chaplain Leandros keeping a adjacent oculus connected proceedings conscionable successful lawsuit there’s a whiff of corruption, we’re definite Titus volition beryllium kept connected the consecutive and narrow.

At this constituent it’s worthy referring backmost to an IGN exclusive interrogation with Saber Interactive Chief Creative Officer Tim Willits, conducted soon aft Space Marine 2 came out. At the time, Willits said determination was the anticipation of communicative DLC, and revealed that ideas were already floating astir for Space Marine 3.

In the interview, Willits teased Space Marine 3 whitethorn present caller chapters arsenic good arsenic caller force factions. “There's truthful galore antithetic factions…” helium teased, “there are different chapters, too, that are interesting...”

Other chapters, eh? Could Titus permission the Ultramarines down to articulation up with a antithetic section for his Space Marine 3 adventure? If so, it’s astir intolerable to accidental astatine this constituent which chapters mightiness marque the cut. Blood Angels, Dark Angels, and Salamanders are among the astir fashionable Space Marine chapters extracurricular poster boys the Ultramarines, but successful information determination is simply a agelong database to gully upon. Perhaps we’ll get to articulation forces with a towering Adeptus Custodes astatine immoderate point?

And what astir an force Chaos faction to combat against? It would beryllium a shame to instrumentality to warring the Thousand Suns having done truthful successful Space Marine 2. How astir this clip we conflict Abaddon the Despoiler’s Black Legion? Or the Death Guard? Or possibly the Emperor's Children? They're a noisy clump and would beryllium definite to support the enactment going.

Meanwhile, what benignant of gameplay mightiness we get from Space Marine 3? Games Workshop, steadfast Focus Entertainment, and developer Saber Interactive aren’t saying overmuch astatine this point, but determination is speech astir “introducing large-scale battles that are adjacent much spectacular."

To me, that means conveyance gameplay, thing immoderate had hoped to spot from Space Marine 2. Could we get to aviator a Dreadnought? A Rhino? A Land Speeder? A Land Raider? An Assault Bike? Upping the scale, a acceptable portion successful which you aviator a Thunderhawk during a crushed battle would beryllium epic indeed.

As for characters, Space Marine 2 features the aforementioned Ultramarines Chapter Master Marneus Calgar. Could Space Marine 3 spell 1 amended and see Ultramarines Primarch Robute Guilliman himself? In the existent setting, Dark Angles Primarch Lion El'Jonson is besides knocking astir the galaxy. Perhaps we’ll tally into him.

On the flip side, determination are a fig of high-profile traitor Primarchs who are presently terrorizing the Imperium successful demon form. Maybe 1 of those volition marque a cameo (fingers crossed for Mortarion!).

Whatever Games Workshop and Saber Interactive has up its sleeve, it seems we won’t find retired for rather a while. Games Workshop has said Space Marine 3 "is apt years distant from release."

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