It’s been nearly a decade since Star Wars Battlefront 2 and followers have been longing for a follow-up. In response to Big Bomb cohost Jeff Grubb, Lucasfilm is certainly procuring round a Star Wars Battlefront 3, nevertheless it stays to be seen who may truly make it. In response to the rumor, Bungie is likely one of the studios within the operating.
The origins of this rumor are gnarly, so buckle up. Digital Gaming Month-to-month not too long ago launched a compendium retrospective, and one of many bonuses as a part of the Kickstarter was a brand new digital situation. That new situation reportedly featured the return of the Quartermann gossip column. That column contained a rumor that Lucasfilm desires to do a brand new Battlefront sport.
Grubb featured the column on his Recreation Mess Morning podcast for October 19:
The fits at Lucasfilm have been aggressively deploying probe droids for a growth accomplice to tackle the duty of making a follow-up. Up to now, nobody has absolutely stepped up, however yours actually is listening to two main sport studios are circling the challenge like a few snowspeeders led by the utterly unsurprising EA DICE who we will hope discovered from their loot field lesson. If the Pressure isn’t entrusted to DICE, it may land at none aside from Halo, Future, and Marathon developer Bungie.
There at the moment are others claiming to have heard related rumors, at the very least the half about Disney wanting a brand new Battlefront sport. It’s an ideal second for this rumor to flare up and get individuals speaking. With Galactic Racer and Zero Firm, Star Wars video games are scorching this fall. Bungie is in-between initiatives, with Marathon seemingly destined to wind down and Future 2 on pause outdoors of brining older content material again to the sport. Sony has been nice fielding licensed Marvel initiatives with Insomniac Video games. Why not accomplice with Disney on Star Wars, too?
Then again, if there have been to be a Battlefront 3, it appears apparent to have EA DICE return to the franchise, having already been profitable at it twice, reasonably than embark on a totally new journey with a totally new studio. I additionally personally suppose it will be a waste to have Bungie toil away for years including to the Star Wars toybox when it’s already given us two of the very best sci-fi franchises in gaming of the final decade plus in the case of world constructing with each Future and Marathon. All issues being equal, I’d reasonably see Bungie make one other new IP.
All issues aren’t equal, nevertheless. Bungie is a shell of the studio that made these earlier video games and it wants a win. Sony, I’m certain, wish to see the Bellevue-based workplace begin producing actual income once more, even when it’s on one other firm’s phrases. Battlefront 3 is extra of a slam dunk than years of prototyping and pre-production on one thing utterly new with a Bungie that’s been utterly fractured because it was acquired.
A method or one other, it will nonetheless be good to get one other Battlefront one in all nowadays. Given how lengthy it takes to ship AAA video games nowadays, we’ll in all probability be deep into the PlayStation 6/Xbox Venture Helix console cycle earlier than one even will get revealed.
