“EA scrapped Star Wars open world game in favor of game that comes out faster”
According to the website Kotaku, Electronic Arts has permanently canceled the Star Wars open world game acquired from Visceral Games, because the publisher wants to release another, less extensive Star Wars title at an earlier date.
Kotaku reports that three people, who are said to be familiar with the projects, have heard that the Star Wars open world game has been definitively canceled. This game was announced when Visceral Games closed in 2017. EA appeared to be continuing the project with the necessary changes at its own studio EA Vancouver, although Uncharted creator Amy Hennig, who was previously involved with Visceral Games’ Star Wars title, already announced last year that EA would transfer the title to the game. had put in the refrigerator. She then reported that EA Vancouver was working on a very different, otherwise unknown, open world game.
The game website states that it learned from other sources that EA Vancouver’s canceled Star Wars title was about playing a villain or bounty hunter, which allowed them to explore a vast open world from the Star Wars universe, including a variety of planets and planets. different factions. This title was reportedly codenamed Orca.
However, EA allegedly determined that a title had to be released earlier than the planned Orca release date, which would have been the reason for Orca’s cancellation. Instead, EA Vancouver would now be working on another smaller-scale Star Wars project with a faster release date. According to Kotaku, this game could possibly be released at the end of 2020, around the time that the new consoles may also come on the market.
Electronic Arts has reportedly not fired any developers as part of trading the open world game for another Star Wars title. Some people at EA Vancouver would still have hopes that Orca will still get the green light once the new project is completed.
Incidentally, the studio Respawn, known for the Titanfall games, among other things, is working on a separate Star Wars game, called Jedi: Fallen Order. It currently has a planned release for the fall of this year.
According to Kotaku, this is concept art of the Star Wars game that Visceral Games had in development.