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EA to give Star Wars games the Batman Arkham treatment

by Mark Tyson on 25 March 2014, 10:45

Tags: Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:EA), Disney

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As HEXUS readers may remember, EA has the exclusive rights to produce Star Wars games for Disney for the next 10 years. Leading up to that Disney bought Lucasfilm in late 2012 and acquired LucasArts as part of the deal. Now we are hearing the first background details of EA's plans for new Star Wars games, thanks to an interview with EA CEO Andrew Wilson in Fortune magazine.

Fortune reports that while EA has confirmed Star Wars Battlefront for Xbox One and PlayStation 4 (developed by DICE), it hears that EA Canada is working on "an original Star Wars open world action game". Other EA studios working on Star Wars titles include Visceral and BioWare.However EA is very clear that any new Star Wars game won't be based upon any of the films.

EA CEO Andrew Wilson went on to explain that EA would follow a similar gaming modus operandi as Warner Bros followed with the Batman games "What Warner Bros. did with Batman was take the core roots of that IP and manifest that inside the walls of Gotham City and delivered an interactive experience that had real ties to what you would see in the films and what you had read in the comics, while having its own life because it could provide such deep and more immersive storylines," Wilson told Fortune. "When we look at the Star Wars properties that's how we're looking at it. We're not trying to build a game that replicates the storyline of any particular film."

While EA and its various studios will work on PC and console titles Disney retained the rights to develop Star Wars titles on "mobile social, tablet and online game categories," which may or may not tie in with Star Wars movies.

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In related new Electronic Arts has been knocked out of the running for The Consumerist's Worst Company in America poll for 2014. Thus EA won't be able to complete the hat trick and 'win' the title for three years in a row. But tech fans might find solace in Microsoft still being in with a chance for the 2014 crown.



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This sounds interesting. An open world Star Wars game from BioWare could be good if its in the vein of Mass Effect.

Glad that it would not be based on any of the films either.
slipthemonkey
This sounds interesting. An open world Star Wars game from BioWare could be good if its in the vein of Mass Effect.

Glad that it would not be based on any of the films either.

you're joking right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic
If they can get a game as good as arkham city/asylum but in the starwars universe then it'd definitely be on my wish list !
herulach
you're joking right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_Knights_of_the_Old_Republic

Glad someone picked up on it.

I actually hope something good is done here though as Star Wars games aren't really doing it for me any more.
given the aweful star wars recently is this


A NEW HOPE?