3) Star Wars: Battlefront
Here we have another DICE developed game (EA sure are keeping those guys busy). Something about this title extra exciting though. Something about this feels right. There’s no denying that the epic battles of Star Wars and the mind-blowing amazingness of the Frostbite engine were always destined to be together, like West and Kardashian. Apparently.
The danger here then is that what we might end up with is simply another Battlefield game with a Star Wars skin laid across the top. Mind you, even that would be quite mega.
We don’t have much to go on other than a seemingly pre-rendered trailer that amounts to about 20 seconds of a bit of snow falling and an AT-AT’s moving foot. It was enough to illicit rapturous cheering from last year’s E3 crowd, though, but it’s been alarmingly quiet since then. And with the demise of another next-gen (Boba Fett-centred) Star Wars game 1313 at the hands of infinitely rich Disney, it doesn’t leave much room for hope.
But we’ll keep our fingers crossed. EA are almost as rich these days anyway, though that’s probably down to in-game microtransactions – and one thing our fingers aren’t crossed for is having to pay $4.99 to get a purple lightsabre. The DICE developers seem positive though, with studio head Patrick Söderlund stating that the project is “a match made in Heaven.”