EA confirms Battlefront 2
The sequel, along with the title in development at Visceral, are two of several Star Wars games to be released over the next three to four years.
Making good on a tease for sequels, and coming as a surprise to absolutely no one, Electronic Arts confirmed that Star Wars Battlefront 2 is in active development during today's earnings call.
While 2015's Battlefront reboot anchored players in events and characters from the original Star Wars trilogy, Battlefront 2 will expand that far, far away galaxy to rope in "bigger and better worlds [...] from the new movies," according to CFO Blake Jorgensen (per GameSpot).
Confirmation of a sequel comes just after word that last year's Battlefront has shipped 14 million copies and surpassed EA's already-lofty expectations for performance.
Jorgensen went on to announce that EA will be publishing at least one new Star Wars game every year for the next three to four years. Battlefront 2 will ship "next year," though he did not specify whether he means the 2017 calendar year or fiscal year, which began last month on April 1.
The game in development at Visceral and Motive, helmed by ex-Uncharted writer Amy Hennig, will ship sometime during the next year, according to Jorgensen.
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replyDavid Craddock posted a new article, EA confirms Battlefront 2
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Fooled me once.. My most regretted and disappointing game of 2015/2016.
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Yeah same, I bought it through mexican origin as well and still feel hornswaggled.
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Can't they just release DLC for the first one the next four years?
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Too Soon...
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They already know goons are going to buy it.
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Shift in studios will be interesting. Can’t say anything Visceral has done since the End Game DLC has enticed me much. I still haven't played Dead Space, but the second two in that trilogy don't get great reviews.
Did people think Hardline was technically competent? I didn't care for the theme and never bought it. -
Needs a real campaign, and coop.
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Hopefully they correct the mistakes they made on the first one. They need a better gameplay loop and less reliance on nostalgia to sell the game. Also don't shove half the game into DLC land. No one should have to buy the DLC to get a complete game.
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I'll be interested to see how many idiots fall for this trick again. Unless there are some significant upgrades to the game play,I don't know how this will be successful.
Basically,if you can't kill in Battlefront,then there's pretty much nothing else to do. No medic roles,no mechanic roles,no support roles=no fun. If 2 is more of the same,then they can keep it.-
There are support roles, but they are tied to tokens or cards. No there is not any ammo or health bags to drop, but it isn’t like the support in Battlefront 1 & 2 were especially notable. Dropping a shield for your team is crucial. If you go as the Emperor or Leia you choose a support hero.
Without defibs, medic in BF is pretty boring. Engineer has always been a meh class anyway, but did you want to be repairing the legs of AT-ST's? What else would you repair? Turrets I guess.
Just because it isn’t BF with a Star Wars skin doesn't make it terrible. I know people who really enjoy playing this game and it doesn't make them idiots to like something different.
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