The much-awaited sequel Star Wars Battlefront 2 is finally coming at the tail end of Fall 2017. Electronic Arts Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen confirmed the release date during an earnings call with some investors.
Content From New Star Wars Movies Will Be Used In Star Wars Battlefront 2
Previously announced without an exact date, EA CFO Jorgensen updated that Star Wars Battlefront 2 will be coming "a year from now. "We're working very hard on making sure that is an extremely deep and engaging offering," he said in the previous earnings call.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 will have "bigger and better worlds" and will use content from the new Star Wars movies. That means that it may feature Rey (Daisy Ridley) and other characters and new vehicles. It can be remembered that the original game only featured content from the first two trilogies.
New Star Wars Games In Development To Follow Star Wars Battlefront 2
EA also previously revealed that they plan to release a new Star Wars game every year for the next four years, according to LazyGamer. New assortment of Star Wars games outside of the Battlefront series are also slated for the coming years.
Gamespot listed the Star Wars titles that are slated for the following years to come. Under the direction of Uncharted director and writer Amy Hennig, Dead Space developers Visceral will be releasing a Star Wars game for 2018. Titanfall developers, Respawn Entertainment sets 2019 as the release year of their third-person Star Wars action adventure title. BioWare and Capital Games are in charge for continued development of Star Wars: The Old Republic and Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, while Criterion is in assistance for the development of an unspecified Star Wars project.
In a previous report by Videogamer, new EA game developer Motive Studios is in collaboration with DICE in the development of Star Wars Battlefront 2. Motive Studios and DICE is confident that the success of the first game that sold 14 million copies will definitely be followed.
