God… I’m not even sure what to say. I had long given up hope for a sequel to Star Wars: Battlefront II prior to Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm, and by extension, LucasArts. Now that the company has joined forces with Electronic Arts to bring fans the Star Wars FPS that we’ve spent years waiting for, my fear that the game would never be released has turned into fear that the game will suck. However, after watching the gameplay footage that EA showed off at its E3 press conference yesterday, all of my fears have been alleviated.
AHHHHHHHH. I feel like I’ve been waiting years for this. The first real footage of Star Wars Battlefront — an EA-made sequel to the wonderful first person shooter of the same name that LucasArts (RIP) made back in 2004 — just dropped at E3. Unlike previously released footage (which was made with the game’s engine but all pre-rendered) this clip is said to be ripped straight from actual gameplay running on a PS4. I’m perhaps more excited about this than I am about The Force Awakens. Okay, probably not — but it’s close. For anyone who never played it, Battlefront is what happens when you take the Star Wars universe and smash it into a first person shooter with epic, 40-person multiplayer battles. Hoth! Flyable TIE fighters versus flyable X-Wings! AT-ATs versus snowspeeders! Lasers! THE LAAASEEEERS. Fans have been begging for a new Battlefront game for over a decade now — but, despite a number of attempts, LucasArts just couldn’t get one out the door. After LucasArts got shuttered by Disney back in 2013, EA DICE — creators of the popular Battlefield series and the Frostbite game engine that powers most of them — got their hands on the license and ran with it.
