Summary
Six days ago, a YouTube account claiming to be Saber Interactive CEO Matthew Karch commented on Asmongold’s video about howWarhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2"is a reminder of what we lost", criticising modern games for “imposing morals”.
Ignoring how politicalWarhammerinherently is, with its crusader imagery and satire of extreme xenophobia, it was unclear if Karch actually posted the comment himself.
A comment supposedly from Space Marine 2 creative director Oliver Hollis-Leick likewise praised Asmongold’s video.
However, as reported byVGC, a new post on Karch’s verifiedLinkedIn— in which he said that “whoever wrote that seems pretty sharp” — seems to confirm its legitimacy.
What Does The Comment Actually Say?
Assuming this is Karch, he opens by saying. “I love your videos. When we signed the deal to make Space Marine 2, all I wanted was a throwback game. We had the chance to work on something which by its nature was ‘old school’. I can’t even comprehend many of the current games we play these days. They are too complex and too much of an investment.
“We worked onHaloback in the day, and that game could be distilled down to the simplest of shooting loops, but it was entirely addicting. This is what we wanted to recapture. I hope that games like Space Marine 2 and[Black Myth] Wukongare the start of a reversion to a time when games were simply about fun and immersion. I spent some time as chief operating officer at Embracer and I saw games there that made me want to cry with their overblown attempts at messaging or imposing morals on gamers. We just want to do some glory kills and get the heart rate up a little. For me that is what games should be about.”
Warhammer is far from an apolitical story. Even in Space Marine 2, you’ll hear the titular military warriors yelling ‘heresy’ every other sentence. Nobody is ‘good’ in Warhammer, it’s a world full of fascists with uncompromising religious doctrine burned into a military powerhouse, and an ingrained fear and hostility towards all aliens. It’s hardly subtle.
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II
WHERE TO PLAY
Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 again sees you battling for the Emperor, against armies of Tyranid aliens. You must fight to ensure the Imperium’s survival in the face of extinction.
