TITANFALL 2 Confirmed for Xbox One, PS4, and PC
Titanfall is such an insanely fun and addictive game. I'm still having a blast playing it! I'm excited to report that Respawn founder and CEO Vince Zampella has confirmed that Titanfall 2 is in development and it will be released on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC! Here's what he said in an interview with IGN:
"I guess EA announced a sequel, so I could play coy and pretend I don't know anything about it, or… yeah. So we're working on a sequel. No official name yet, but we're working on that. That's the main focus but we're starting up a second team and doing some smaller stuff too. Small, exploratory, taking it slow! It'll be multiplatform."
I'm happy to hear that they are opening the game up to other gaming platforms. I'll still probably play it on my Xbox One, but now other gamers that don't have an Xbox One can enjoy the game's badassery. One of the things they wish they would have done with the first game is make it available to other gaming systems. But making the game exclusively for Xbox was the right choice for them at the time. Respawn COO Dusty Welch explained that it was a business decision:
"If we could do it though? It would have been prohibitive to do that - we definitely made the right choices for the right reasons - but if you're saying what would we have liked to have done? The opportunity to be multiplatform could have made it even more significant for us."
As for what we can expect to see in the sequel and what we should expect from the next game in the series, they didn't say much. They will expand the lore, though, and it's not clear if we can expect to see a single-player option. Zampella went on to discuss the multi-player approach of the first game, saying:
"I wouldn't have done it differently. We set out to do it and it was one of our goals. I mean it obviously prohibits a certain group of people playing the game, and as content creators you want to get into as many peoples's hands as possible. We put some single-player elements in there though, and tried to mix it up. Maybe we could have mixed things up a bit better because some people blew right by it and didn't even see it because there was so much action happening around it. It's tough, because if you hit people over the head with it it becomes intrusive, and there are people who don't want or care about it. Where does the needle fall? I think it takes a while to figure that out and we haven't figured it out yet."
I personally love the multi-player aspect of the game. That's just one of many factors that make Titanfall such a fun and unique gaming experience. I'm just excited to hear that a sequel is in development, and I'm looking forward to seeing what new things they bring to the franchise in terms of story and gameplay.