EA win Star Wars contract (DICE to develop a SW game)

[DrewePeacock]

Just seen this on twitter.

http://news.ea.com/press-release/company-news/walt-disney-company-and-ea-announce-multi-year-star-wars-games-agreement

Essentially, EA have won the contract to produce Star Wars games. DICE have been confirmed as one of the companies to develop a game.

Now, if DICE were to produce s SW game along the lines of BF, I would be VERY interested.

SW games are always very hit and miss, but a SW/BF hybrid would be pretty ****ing sweet.

 

[ColSonders]

Yup, there's been a couple of decent Star Wars games in the past, the best one being Battlefront, which would fall right into DICE's hands as it's basically just Battlefield anyway.

Battlefront 3 was already well into development, but honestly I reckon DICE will do a far better job of it.

 

[DrewePeacock]

Again, from twitter...

"@DICEfigge: Me + My amazing team + Frostbite + Star Wars. It just happened. Can someone tell my inner child to stop jumping and screaming? #starwars"

 

[Slaine]

 

[yinkin]

The Evil Empire Licenses the Evil Empire, I have a bad feeling about this.

 

[SHROUD]

I've just done a sex wee

 

[zoob]

Woot! The Force is strong in this union!

 

[ColSonders]

This news must suck for Nintendo fans.

Didn't DICE Technical Director Johan Andersson comment that Frostbite 2 basically didn't work well enough on Wii-U to go down that route? (that's the Battlefield 3 engine for those not familiar with all things DICE)

Which I assume means that there's no hope that the Wii-U will ever get a port of this game either.

 

[yinkin]

sucks to be U

 

[zoob]

Mmm, I have very pleasant memories of BF2142 - can you imagine it with AT-ATs etc instead of mechs?
Hoth & Endor, here we come!

 

[ColSonders]

I have very fond memories of Star Wars Battlefront....but stick that on the Battlefield engine and you're talking a seriously different ball game.

We were discussing this on chat yesterday and came to the conclusion that DICE should be done with the "Battlefront" title as it implies a continuation of the Battlefront series and basically just use the latest Battlefield engine with a Star Wars graphics patch. Get away from the Third Person view thing as it's rarely implemented well with current standard control schemes and start from scratch with a Star Wars themed well balanced title rather than try to incorporate everything from the other Battlefront games.

This has a lot of potential for greatness.

 

[zoob]

True that.
Wouldn't take much to add landspeeders etc in instead of planes & automobiles.
Oooooooooooh. muchos greatness

 

[SHROUD]

I absolutely loved Star Wars Battlefront, guess it'll be PS4 before we see anything though.

 

[ColSonders]

I absolutely loved Star Wars Battlefront, guess it'll be PS4 before we see anything though.

I would think so too given how recent the acquisition of the Starwars franchise was, normally a good 3 or more year development of a title.

Even if they use what's already there (hopefully not) it's still gonna be a good year I would think...and if they do a graphical patch of Battlefield again it'll take a good year I would think to get it sorted, levels designed and everything balanced.