Well, this is a surprise.
There was a lot of hype behind Visceral Games' Star Wars project which was led by Amy Hennig, but, it was announced last year that EA would be reshaping the project. If the newest job listing for EA's Vancouver studio is any indication, it looks like that game could now be an open world experience rather than a linear single-player experience.
The listing was discovered by
Gamespot on EA Vancouver's career page which advertises a position for a Lead Online Engineer, the role requires someone with experience of "implementing online features" and "implementing online features such as matchmaking, asynchronous interactions, live services, server-host migration, etc." The key responsibilities will be to manage online servers and to ensure that they can manage high traffic.
Based on this job listing it would be fair to say that this is indeed the redesigned Star Wars game and lines up with EA's intentions to make the game " a broader experience that allows for more variety and player agency, leaning into the capabilities of our Frostbite engine and reimagining central elements of the game to give players a Star Wars adventure of greater depth and breadth to explore."
EA has remained tight-lipped about this new Star Wars project but I'm willing to bet that we'll hear more about this at E3, with a formal announcement at the very least.
What do you guys think? Are you excited about an open world Star Wars game, or would you have preferred a more focused single player experience?
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