14 DAY TRIAL // Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, the pretty popular hack and slash game from Relic Entertainment and THQ, was supposed to get two more sequels but, after its cancelation, Game Director Raphael van Lierop has confirmed details about their stories.
Relic Entertainment was one of THQ's biggest internal studios and one of its most recent titles under the umbrella of the now-bankrupt publisher was Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, which told the story of Captain Titus and his Marines.
Seeing as how the story ended on a cliffhanger, lots of fans wanted to see at least one sequel from the studio.
According to Game Director Raphael van Lierop, the plan was to make a Space Marine trilogy focusing on Captain Titus.
“I had some big plans for Titus,” van Lierop told PAR. “The second part of his story was to focus on a ‘Titus Unleashed’ plot—basically there were forces arrayed against him that would see his loyalty to the Adeptus Astartes pushed to its limit, and his reaction would be to kind of ‘go rogue,’ and we'd see a different Titus, not quite as in control as we saw him in Space Marine. He would be kicked out as a consequence—exiled, which would basically be a death sentence for him.”
The sequel would've been a much more aggressive game than the first one, which showed Titus and his marines take down all sorts of enemies, from Orcs to Chaos forces.
The third would bring things to an epic conclusion, according to van Lierop.
“He would survive, and come back even stronger in the third game, where other Space Marines still loyal to him would rally around him and he'd return to ‘clean house,’ but as the head of a brand new Chapter that we would build around him.”
Unfortunately, before actual work on Space Marine 2 could begin, THQ's financial problems became apparent and culminated in the sale of Relic Entertainment to Sega and the return of the rights to the Warhammer 40,000 universe to Games Workshop.