Monthly Archives: April 2017
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Won’t Have a Season Pass
Star Wars Battlefront II won't feature a season pass, developer DICE has confirmed.
Battlefront II creative director Bernd Diemer confirmed the absence of a season pass in an interview with Mashable. "We don't want to segment our community," he said with regard to why the team opted to forgo a season pass.
Upon looking back at how Battlefront changed over time following its launch in 2015 with the addition of DLC, Diemer said the team came to the conclusion that "for this type of game, season passes are not the best thing" and they need to "come up with something better."
The Last Jedi Characters Are Battlefront 2 Preorder Bonus
During Star Wars Celebration today, EA confirmed that anyone who preorders Battlefront II will also receive The Last Jedi-themed content including “exclusive Kylo Ren and Rey themed looks” based on the characters’ appearances in the upcoming film.
Kylo Ren's The Last Jedi look in Battlefront II
Those skins are unlocked for the game's multiplayer mode, and will include "epic ability upgrades." Alongside that, preorders will also unlock a new First Order ship and The Last Jedi's version of the Millennium Falcon for the game's space combat mode.
Star Wars: Rogue One Sequel Novel Is a Battlefront 2 Tie-In
At Star Wars Celebration today, it was revealed that a previously announced Star Wars novel is actually a tie-in to Star Wars Battlefront II.
During the Battlefront II reveal panel, Christie Golden's novel Inferno Squad was revealed to actually be called Star Wars Battlefront II: Inferno Squad. Inferno Squad commander Iden Versio was revealed as the protagonist of Battlefront II, and the tie-in novel will follow, according to Golden, how the Imperial squad met, their first mission, and "how they learned to become this well-oiled machine," according to Golden.
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Multiplayer Preview
Where Battlefront II’s new single player mode is attempting something different (both the mode and its content), the focus for the returning multiplayer component seems to be more about refinement. The last Battlefront got a lot right, but it also occasionally felt like gorgeous blueprints for something better to come. This could well be it.
Burnout creators Criterion have stepped in to take on the game’s vehicles and head up a much-requested new feature; a full space combat mode. While the first game’s baby steps into providing material from films other than the original trilogy have become a bold jump, this will be the first Star Wars game to include material from all three film eras (although Gungans have been studiously absent from the footage we’ve seen - make of that what you will).
Star Wars Battlefront 2 Single-Player Preview
All EA really had to do to make people happy with Battlefront 2’s single-player was announce that they had one. It was an obvious missing piece in 2015’s Battlefront, and in part because of that, I expected Battlefront 2’s campaign to play things safe and avoid overlapping with anything happening in the current films or presenting any challenging controversies of its own. I’m pretty sure I was wrong.
Check out the brand new reveal screenshots below - click right to see them all:
The campaign (which was co-written by Walt Williams, who wrote the highly-acclaimed Spec Ops: The Line) is set right after Death Star 2 explodes, and ends around the time that Starkiller Base does - a story ambitiously spanning almost 30 years. The “point”, according to contributing developer Motive, is to bridge the gap between the original trilogy and the current films, exploring what happens to an Empire without an Emperor. To do that, they decided to let players become the Empire, specifically in the shape of an elite Imperial Commander called Iden Versio, though there will also be segments that have you have you control Luke Skywalker and Kylo Ren.
Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Release Date, Story Details Announced
At Star Wars Celebration today, EA announced that Star Wars Battlefront II will be released worldwide on PS4, Xbox One, and PC on November 17 and is now available for preorder.
Battlefront II’s campaign will take place in the 30-year period between the end of Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. The story will follow protagonist Iden Versio, who leads an elite Imperial unit called Inferno Squad, and players will get the chance to play as well-known characters like Luke Skywalker and Kylo Ren during the campaign.
According to EA, the campaign is developed by former Ubisoft Toronto head Jade Raymond’s Motive studio, and new characters have been created “in close partnership with the story group at Lucasfilm.” On stage at Celebration, Lucasfilm confirmed that Battlefront II's story will be canon within the Star Wars universe.
Star Wars Rebels Will Show Hera Becoming a Rogue One General
With the announcement that Star Wars Rebels is coming to an end with Season 4, fans should soon find out the fates of the main characters and where they end up by the time the original Star Wars (Episode IV: A New Hope) begins. Of course, thanks to Rogue One we know that both Chopper and Hera are still around and active in the Rebellion – with Hera getting a promotion at some point, as revealed by the page for “General Syndulla” heard in the film inside the Rebel base on Yavin.
While it’s not clear just how close to the events of Episode IV Rebels will get, at Star Wars Celebration today, Rebels co-creator Dave Filoni revealed that by the end of the series, Hera will indeed be a general.
Star Wars Rebels: Clone Wars’ Bo-Katan Makes Her Return
Star Wars Rebels: Season 4 is finally bringing back Bo-Katan Kryze (voiced by Katee Sackhoff) from Star Wars: The Clone Wars. The confirmation came after voice actress Tiya Sircar teased that there are some big Mandalorian episodes coming up for her character, Sabine Wren in Rebels' final season. Sackhoff herself had actually said she was coming back quite awhile go, but until now, it hadn't been confirmed by Disney or Lucasfilm.
"What I think I can say is that if there are any Mandalorian fans out there, I think you will be happy with some specific episodes in this upcoming season," Sircar said during the panel. "And I think you might be surprised where we end up and who we're going..."
Star Wars: Season 4 Trailer
At the Star Wars Rebels panel at Star Wars Celebration today, the trailer was debuted for Season 4 of the animated series.
Take a look at the preview below, for what we now know is the final season of Star Wars Rebels.
Warwick Davis Voicing a Character in Star Wars Rebels
Warwick Davis is voicing Rukh in the upcoming season of Star Wars Rebels.
Rukh, a Noghri warrior who serves as Admiral Thrawn's bodyguard, has never been seen before in the series.
Rukh revealed during the Star Wars Rebels panel.
Warwick Davis is no stranger to the world of Star Wars, having first appeared in the franchise as Wicket in Return of the Jedi. His attachment to the movies has continued through the years, with Davis also appearing on, and hosting, panels during Star Wars Celebration. The idea of Davis voicing a character in Rebels was first brought up during a panel at last year's Celebration in London.