• EA: Star Wars Battlefront will be a FIRST PERSON SHOOTER
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[quote=IGN]Star Wars: Battlefront is coming Holiday 2015, Electronic Arts has announced, [B]and will be a first-person shooter.[/B] EA CEO Andrew Wilson confirmed the news during an investor relations call today. Battlefront is EA's big holiday blockbuster, and as such, the next Battlefield game won't arrive until Holiday 2016. [B]"This allows us to have a major first-person shooter title each year,"[/B] an EA executive said.[/quote] [url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/10/28/star-wars-battlefront-launching-holiday-2015]Source[/url]. Looks like it won't be a third person shooter like the first two.
Works for me, I played II in first person half the time anyway.
I thought the first two were FPSes. Oh you could switch to third person? Never knew that.
You could switch between first and third person.
if you look at the screenshots it doesn't even resemble the same genre as the previous two, and it looks like a modern military shooter.
I can see that working for the main part. But what about controlling a Jedi? I hope that feature wasn't taken out.
Technically you could play BF 2 in first person. When I first played it I did it entirely in third person, but after coming back to it years later with many more FPS titles under my belt, I decided to just play in first person. Plus knowing DICE it'll probably look pretty damn good in First Person - unlike BF2
[QUOTE=The Baconator;46357381]if you look at the screenshots it doesn't even resemble the same genre as the previous two, and it looks like a modern military shooter.[/QUOTE] Star Wars: Battlefield
[QUOTE=Antonahill;46357380]You could switch between first and third person.[/QUOTE] Well that explains why people always knew when to pop out and shoot me as I neared a corner.
I have a bad feeling about this. First they axe the Clone Wars era (aka entire game is now Empire vs Rebels IIRC) and now it's just an FPS.
As long as it's not shit I don't care if it's not in third person
let's just pray it's not battlefield with lasers.
I only like third person in vehicles or the special characters.
[QUOTE=RaxaHax;46357384]Technically you could play BF 2 in first person.[/QUOTE] Yeah but it was pretty obvious it wasn't meant for first person. The first person view seemed really half-assed, like the reload animations just lowered the gun down the lifted it back up after a second. And iirc some of the models didn't fit properly so you could see into the arms if you jumped or something. [QUOTE=Boba_Fett;46357389]I have a bad feeling about this. First they axe the Clone Wars era (aka entire game is now Empire vs Rebels IIRC) and now it's just an FPS.[/QUOTE] I don't mind it being an FPS (Though the FPS and TPS toggle was neat and I'd like to see that again), but axing the Clone Wars entirely was stupid. It was a major part of the first 2 games, then they decide to give a big fuck you to the people who like the Clone Wars and expected it to be in the third game of a series where the 2 previous major titles had it.
Well, they just lost millions in sales from people who were hoping it was going to be a match 3 puzzle game. Despite my only experience with Battlefront being a demo of one of the PS2 incarnations, I hope this decision has an actual reason other than a Ubisoft'esque "its too much work to have constant 3rd person".
[QUOTE=The Baconator;46357381]if you look at the screenshots it doesn't even resemble the same genre as the previous two, and it looks like a modern military shooter.[/QUOTE] theyre cashing out on every market possible. [editline]29th October 2014[/editline] i only ever played in 3rd person btw.
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;46357389]I have a bad feeling about this.[/QUOTE] Every star wars movie had this phrase in it, cheeky bastard. I really enjoyed the 2nd one and i hope the space conquest missions are still around, and make the single player slave missions more engaging and unique
Great news. I honestly wouldn't have enjoyed it at all if it was locked to third person, third person just feels awkward and clumsy in Battlefront 1 & 2 outside of vehicles or playing as a hero... it's an FPS shooter at heart essentially. Oh and that in-engine Endor footage is insane. THAT is how I saw Endor in my mind while I played it in Battlefront 1!
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;46357389]I have a bad feeling about this. First they axe the Clone Wars era (aka entire game is now Empire vs Rebels IIRC) and now it's just an FPS.[/QUOTE] and Dice hasn't exactly been polishing games at all recently either
[QUOTE=J!NX;46357572]and Dice hasn't exactly been polishing games at all recently either[/QUOTE] Clone Wars EXPANSION PACK!
[QUOTE=RaxaHax;46357384]but after coming back to it years later with many more FPS titles under my belt,[/QUOTE] nice. a real veteran of gaming, if you will
Content-wise, we have to remember that Episode 7 will have already been in theaters by the time this is released. Even if they drop the clone wars they might draw content from the new movie, which would be pretty awesome in my opinion.
[QUOTE=RG4ORDR;46357584]Clone Wars EXPANSION PACK![/QUOTE] Oh dear god no. Call me names, but I preferred the prequel maps to the original maps in battlefront. You couldn't play as that droid with a forcefield that rolls like a ball or the sweet-ass minigun clone commando in the original trilogy setting.
[QUOTE=JiggleItGood;46357393]let's just pray it's not battlefield with lasers.[/QUOTE] It's going to be nothing like the original games, its going to be battlefield and you know it.
I enjoyed being an engineer class rolling around in thirdperson using the scattergun. It's just going to be a battlefield clone now..
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;46357389]I have a bad feeling about this. First they axe the Clone Wars era (aka entire game is now Empire vs Rebels IIRC) and now it's just an FPS.[/QUOTE] Dood it's made by Dice. Everything they've made in the last 5 years has been a complete disaster. This game is going to suck and anyone who says otherwise is naive.
[QUOTE=The Baconator;46357381]if you look at the screenshots it doesn't even resemble the same genre as the previous two, and it looks like a modern military shooter.[/QUOTE] Which screenshots, exactly? All I know of is the 'making of' trailer. [editline]e[/editline] Because I think you're mixing this up with Star Wars: First Assault.
This is kind of disappointing too me because Star Wars has such appealing character design, I'd want to look at my character. I hope vehicles aren't locked to first person perspective.
To thouse saying it will be a battlefield clone, I think you have forgoten how similar they both were to battlefield already.
[QUOTE=redsoxrock;46357676]To thouse saying it will be a battlefield clone, I think you have forgoten how similar they both were to battlefield already.[/QUOTE] Battlefront is nearly literally Battlefield with a Star Wars skin.
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