At the end of last week, discussions about the future of games in the franchise erupted with renewed vigor. “star Wars“(Star Wars). And insiders have set the stage for new thoughts.
Knights of the old republic
Back in January 2023, the editor of the portal Сinelinx Jordan Mason citing his source said that the publishing house Electronic Arts allegedly working on restarting a series of games Knights of the old republic… The first insider said that this is a remake of the original game BioWarereleased in 2003. However, Mason’s second interlocutor argued that this is a rethinking of the franchise, which will allow KotOR with new canon Disney…
Last week new information voiced blogger Bespin Bulletin… Digging through the information, he learned from several insiders that there is indeed a game in the setting in development. “Old Republic“. Moreover, at the end of December 2023, an employee Bloomberg Jason Schreier hinted that not working on the project EA, but a different studio, and the audience will “never guess” which one.
Schreier’s message was initially received with disbelief. However, in January Lucasfilm announced the creation brand Lucasfilm Games, under which all games in the Star Wars universe will be released. Moreover, the studio will cooperate not only with EA, but also with other publishers. So, Ubisoft has already started creating an adventure project in the open world.
Blogger confirms Bespin Bulletin and Jason Schreier’s information Nate Naida (shinobi602). He claims that the developer of the new KotOR is not a big secret, it’s just that most gamers have not heard about this company.
Legacy of the Knights of the Old Republic
For the first part of Knights of the Old Republic, BioWare was responsible, but the sequel was already working on Obsidian Entertainment… Don’t forget about MMO Star Wars: The Old Republic from BioWare, which continues the storylines of the dilogy, still has an active user base and continues to receive updates.
The publishing house contributed to the development of KotOR Aspyr media, which, under license from Lucasfilm, has consistently republished classic games in the Star Wars universe. So, on iOS Knights of the Old Republic 1 and 2 came out.
The resurgence of the Knights of the Old Republic series may have something to do with Lucasfilm’s plans. It has long been rumored that the studio working on a film in the setting of the “Old Republic”. Presumably this is director’s project Taiki Waititiwhich was officially announced in 2023.
One of the characters featured in BioWare and Obsidian Entertainment is also already part of the new canon. It’s about the very Dart Revan… In film “Skywalker. Sunrise“(The rise of skywalker) featured legions of the cult “Eternal Sith“(Sith eternal). One of them was named after the main character.
Mercenary game
Bespin Bulletin also spoke about two more projects. So, in development is a game in the universe of “Star Wars”, dedicated to the bounty hunter. However, he does not know who is specifically responsible for the project (EA or Ubisoft).
It is also interesting that at the end of 2023 the creative director spoke on this topic God of war and ex-LucasArts employee Corey Barlog… is he described his dream game based on the TV series “Mandalorian“(The mandalorian).
“If no one is currently working on a great single player game in which you play as a mercenary who flies from one system to another to collect orders, upgrade your armor from beskar and get into a variety of adventures, then I don’t know what the hell we’re doing here.” , – wrote Barlog.
Note that there is a game about a bounty hunter in nature. This is about Star Wars: Bounty Hunterreleased on PS2, PS3, PS4, and Nintendo GameCube. In it, the main character was a mercenary Django fettto whom Count Dooku instructed to eliminate his rebellious student. The assignment was also a test, for the passage of which the Mandalorian was made the prototype for the creation of an army of clones.
Do not forget about the long-suffering Star Wars 1313… Its development was finally phased out after Disney bought out George Lucas Lucasfilm and all of its subsidiaries. Partially available developments were included in the project Ragtag from Visceral Games, however, he was not destined to see the light.
According to the original idea, the main character of Star Wars 1313 was to be Boba Fett (however, the developers hid it, throwing dust in the eyes of fans), and the main location was the lower levels of Coruscant. The game has also been associated with the series Star Wars: Underworldwhich was also canceled. A concept was formed on its ruins, which eventually mutated into the series “The Mandalorian”.
New game from EA
The second project Bespin Bulletin talked about is in-house development by EA. This is a “small” project, and the blogger doubts that it is Star Wars: Battlefront 3…
In December 2023, the actors Janine Havankar (Eden Versio), Anthony Scordi (admiral Garrick Versio) and T.J. Ramini (Del Mico) known from Battlefront 2, took part recording lines and movements of characters for a new project in the universe of “Star Wars”.
Against the theory that the actors are working on Battlefront 3, says the fact that their characters died in the second part. However, they may well appear as minor characters in a triquel or even in a completely new EA project.
Previously studio representatives EA Motive have officially denied the information that the studio works over a new action game in the Star Wars universe. The journalists found the mention in the job description, but the developers claim that a mistake was made.
At the same time, there is information from a well-known insider Daniel Richtman… is he toldthat EA is allegedly working on a new game from the series Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, which is just an action game. Wherein Respawn already doing a sequel Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order…
The first game from The Force Unleashed series was released in 2008 and narrated about the adventures Galena Marek (Starkiller) – secret student Darth Vader… Despite mixed reviews from players and critics, the project proved to be commercially successful.
The force unleashed 2 was released in 2010, but the audience accepted the game much worse than the first part. This negatively affected sales.
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