Electronics Arts Says No More Star Wars Movie Games

[CarlsonAndPeeters]

It's an established fact that the secret to making a great Star Wars game is to steer well clear of the movies.

Wait a minute; The Rogue Squadron games on the Gamecube were phenomenal, and they were just the events in and around the movies.

Definitely great games. The distinction that the article doesn't mention is that its games designed to be released alongside a movie that tend to be awful (of course there are exceptions, like Spider-Man 2 and the Two Towers/Return of the King...and Star Wars Racer). The recipe of having a short time to develop, an inflexible deadline, and the constraints of the movie story combine to give you your GI Joes and your Star Treks. But with a property like Rogue Squadron, developed long after the movies release, they have a lot more freedom to develop at their own pace and to work with the story instead of against it.

All in all, good news, although we'll have to see what games we get out of this before we can really start praising or condemning EA.

EDIT: Anyone else play Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter? I genuinely loved that game (SW: Bounty Hunter was solid too...)

 

[Racecarlock]

I'm never going to see a release of star wars trilogy arcade on consoles am I?

 

[fix-the-spade]

Edit:
Oops, forgot Republic Commando. Need a second one of those too. There, that fills your mandatory FPS slot nicely.

EA needs to make the following games:
Battlefront 3 (and make it good, this one's work in progress)
A proper KotOR 3, preferrably handing it to Obsidian instead of what's left of Bioware
Rogue Squadron 4
Jedi Knight: Part 3 (or3.5/4/whatever)
A new Pod Racing game (because Pod Racing is the best thing from the prequels by miles).
A new Galaxy/Empire at war RTS
A sequel to Republic Commando

With those seven projects they could probably out gross the movies, but of course EA seem to be from some parallel universe where the only way to be successful is to ruin everything, so I'm not sure I actually want them to make any of those games...

 

[Rogue 9]

Edit:
Oops, forgot Republic Commando. Need a second one of those too. There, that fills your mandatory FPS slot nicely.

EA needs to make the following games:
Battlefront 3 (and make it good, this one's work in progress)
A proper KotOR 3, preferrably handing it to Obsidian instead of what's left of Bioware
Rogue Squadron 4
Jedi Knight: Part 3 (or3.5/4/whatever)
A new Pod Racing game (because Pod Racing is the best thing from the prequels by miles).
A new Galaxy/Empire at war RTS
A sequel to Republic Commando

With those seven projects they could probably out gross the movies, but of course EA seem to be from some parallel universe where the only way to be successful is to ruin everything, so I'm not sure I actually want them to make any of those games...

Also, a new Droid Works game. Seriously, for a physics educational game it was so much fun. A Rebel spy having to work with Jawas to build droids to infiltrate an Imperial assassin droid factory? Best educational game premise ever.

 

[Vault Citizen]

So let me get this straight, EA announced a sequel to Battelfront, gave that sequel to developers who have a proven track record with shooters and really wanted it and now they say they don't do cash grab tie in games with the movies. Either EA deserves more credit than I would have given them or the Star Wars game license was snapped up with another company and the Escapist has been replacing their name with the word "EA" in any relevant news articles to screw with us, lol.

 

[Sniper Team 4]

This is a good start.

Now, go make a straight up space combat game. Remake the entire X-wing and TIE fighter series and release it on consoles. Or, make a new Star Wars space combat game. Seriously, someone PLEASE make one of those games. I miss flying an X-wing...

 

[RicoADF]

So let me get this straight, EA announced a sequel to Battelfront, gave that sequel to developers who have a proven track record with shooters and really wanted it and now they say they don't do cash grab tie in games with the movies. Either EA deserves more credit than I would have given them or the Star Wars game license was snapped up with another company and the Escapist has been replacing their name with the word "EA" in any relevant news articles to screw with us, lol.

I'm going with option B
Seriously though, EA does seem to have learnt their lesson, money speaks loudly after all.

 

[wetfart]

Interesting ... However, I think that if the Mouse comes demanding an episode 7 game, EA will be quick to toe the line.

 

[Fox12]

That's... actually a pretty good decision EA. Well done. Now lets sit back and watch them turn every game into a free-to-play micro transaction extortion machine with tons of DRM.

 

[Bat Vader]

the only specific movie game that i can remember actually being good was robocop 3. which was released way before the shitty movie purely because ocean was sick of people saying " movie games are always shit and rely on the movie marketing to sell them". in the end it was actually way better than the movie and one of the first fps games i ever played

Also Spiderman 2.

Well the actual game sucked hard, but the web slinging around New York was legendary.

But the general rule is that Videogames based off movies are all crap, even Prince of Persia managed to mess it up!

The Two Towers and The Return of The King video games were pretty good I thought.

Hopefully this means that Dice will make a sequel to Republic Commando. Would love to hunt Jedi down as a clone squad and have to eliminate them.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

I want me some Imperial Commando dammit! And while you're at it, keep this shit off Origin. If I'm asking for things that will never be, of course.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

You mean EA isn't going to shove out some poorly made tie-in? Then why did they even grab the Star Wars licence in the first place?

Alright, what has EA done now? (seriously every bid of good news from EA is followed be at least 3 bad ones).