STAR WARS: BATTLEFRONT — EA Reconfirms Launch With THE FORCE AWAKENS
It's almost been 10 years since a new Star Wars: Battlefront game was released. After several failed attempts, the game went into development at EA's DICE Studios in 2013. We've previously posted a teaser trailer, full trailer, and news that the game was coming in the holiday season of 2015.
Yesterday, on EA's earnings call, CFO Blake Jorgensen gave an update on the gam,e reconfirming that it will be "aligned with" the release of of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. He also confirmed that the game will be not be based on the forthcoming movie locations, but familiar worlds seen in the original trilogy like Hoth and Endor.
As for the game's release, EA is going to be putting a considerable push into its marketing, calling it a "very large activity."
Jorgensen continued, saying:
"We think there's huge potential for that title. More to come in the next couple of months on that as more about the movie comes out as well as more about our title comes out. You should consider that a very large activity for us [this year] and a very large focus--similar to how we've thought about Battlefields in the past."
Several gamers have lots faith in DICE's development on games like Battlefield which required lots and lots of patches. My hope is that that we get a solid game on launch, but that not been the trend with games in general lately.
Star Wars: Battlefront is coming holiday 2015, on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
Source: GameSpot