What you need to know about Star Wars Battlefront 2, including latest news, release date, and much more!
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Release Date
In a recent EA investors call, CEO Andrew Wilson confirmed Star Wars Battlefront 2 is coming in Holiday 2017 and that it will feature a single-player campaign mode.
This isn't really news. Last November, CFO Blake Jorgensen confirmed the game's release window during an earning's call, and DICE told Eurogamer a few weeks back that it was developing a single-player mode for the game.
What is news is Wilson's comments on what that mode will entail:
"Our next Star Wars Battlefront will be even bigger, taking players into more locations, and allowing them to play with more heroes and characters across multiple Star Wars eras," Wilson said. "There will be new ways to play, including an all-new single-player campaign, and much, much more that we are excited to share with our players in the months ahead."
Pay close attention to "multiple Star Wars eras." Does this mean that players will be able to return to the Clone Wars like in the old Battlefront games? And is there a Force Awakens-era campaign on the way? Considering that the current game only features maps inspired by the Original Trilogy (the Battle of Jakku didn't take place that long after RotJ) and no single-player campaign mode at all, this little detail is definitely something to get excited about.
More on Star Wars Battlefront 2 as we learn it!
The game will most likely arrive to XBO, PS4, and PC.
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Star Wars Battlefront 2 Gameplay
DICE has confirmed that it's developing a single-player campaign for Star Wars Battlefront 2, a move that will undoubtedly make many players happy after the first game launched without a single-player mode at all.
Speaking to Eurogamer, DICE producer Paul Keslin confirmed the news, saying, "Myself as a Star Wars fan, I want story, I want narrative, I want something I can play that immerses me in that world but gives me something to follow and chase."
Keslin revealed that Motive Studios, who is helping DICE with the sequel, will specifically be working on the single-player campaign mode. The producer also talked a bit about how he doesn't want the single-player mode to just be an afterthought.
"That's a lot of what we've talked about in terms of DICE's identity and how we approach games. We're partnering up with some folks from Motive - they have their own take on how things are - but we have a very close relationship with them, and we want everything to feel like a coherent experience.
"We don't want it where single player isn't that great but multiplayer has this great thing and isn't connected."
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Details
In an interview with PC Gamer, Star Wars Battlefront director Niklas Fegraeus opened up about the future of 2015's Star Wars Battlefront and the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront 2. As we had previously reported, that future will include the upcoming addition of a skirmish mode that will finally allow Battlefront fans to play the game offline against bots across various difficulty modes.
According to Fegraeus, EA DICE is well aware of the demand surrounding such a mode.
“It's something the fans have been talking about for a very long time,” said Fegraeus. “It's been on the forums, it's one of the most requested things, to play offline in our big modes. And that's what Skirmish is about."
He also commented on the new mode's AI settings by making the surprising revelation that even he "cannot beat Fighter Squadron on the hardest (difficulty).” Fegraeus noted that the team felt the new offline mode should present a unique challenge on the highest difficulty setting, which is why the difficulty was cranked up so high.
On the matter of whether or not fans can expect this mode to be available for Battlefront 2, Fegraeus said that the team is not ready to comment on the specifics of a skirmish mode equivalent for Battlefront 2 at this time. However, he did mention that EA DICE will be bringing a lot of the things that they learned on Battlefront over to Battlefront 2. This, coupled with the previous reveal that another EA studio, Motive, is working on a major new addition to the next Battlefront game, has some speculating that Battlefront 2 is not likely to launch without an offline single-player option.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Confirmed
Electronic Arts confirmed in an earnings call that the company is indeed working on a sequel to Star Wars Battlefront that will arrive in 2017. The publisher had previously teased that it planned to develop multiple Battlefrontsequels. This comes as no surprise since the first game has already shipped more than 14 million copies.
Said EA CFO Blake Jorgensen that Battlefront 2 will feature "bigger and better worlds" and that the game will have content based on the "new movies." He didn't mention any specific movies by name, but it's a safe assumption that we will at least see some The Force Awakens content in the sequel.
Jorgensen also mentioned EA's plan to release a new Star Warsgame every year for the next three to four years. Other EA studios currently working on Star Wars games include BioWare, Respawn Entertainment, Capital Games, Motive, and Visceral Games. Jorgensen mentioned that Visceral's game will also arrive by 2017, but he didn't go into further details.
We will keep you posted as we learn more!