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Who could best do Star Wars 1313? [6 vote(s)]

DICE
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WHO CARES STAR WARS IS BACK!!
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KingWesleyIII


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Disney Gives Electronic Arts Exclusive Rights to Star Wars Games

Electronic Arts will be the exclusive provider of games based on the Star Wars series, Disney and the game developer announced jointly today.

Following Disneys acquisition of Lucasfilm last year, it shut down the LucasArts game development division, indicating its preference to license console games rather than develop them in-house. Now, Electronic Arts will be the only publisher creating Star Wars games for a core gaming audience, according to todays press release. Electronic Arts said that its in-house game teams DICE (Battlefield) and Visceral (Dead Space) will work on Star Wars titles, in addition to BioWare, the team behind EAs existing Star Wars MMO The Old Republic.

Meanwhile, Disney will retain certain rights to develop new titles within the mobile, social, tablet and online game categories.

My initial take: While this might seem like a great arrangement for Electronic Arts and Disney, I cannot see how taking away the element of competition will be good for the quality of Star Wars games. Individually licensing out Star Wars games to different publishers and developers might have ushered in a variety of creative ideas and directions for the franchise, but locking out anyone that isnt affiliated with Electronic Arts seems like a commitment to the same old, same old.

Every developer dreams of creating games for the Star Wars universe, said EA Labels President Frank Gibeau. And now, unless they go work at EA, they cant.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/05/electronic-arts-star-wars/

What do you think? Which games do you think will be the best revived by EA? Battlefront 3 or 1313.



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Hell, all I want is Battlefront 3. I've seen the pre-alpha footage (you can look it up on YouTube), and if it's honest-to-God never finished then some part of me is going to die inside. That series was one of my all-time favorites.

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I really Hope they Continue Developing 1313!! Since it was going to be the first m rated starwars game it would have been awesome!! And i think Dice should do it...

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I think Republic Commando was rated M, actually...

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I dont like EA games personally. Their servers are very poor and usually are shut down after a couple of months.

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I feel like 1313 will be better because of the story aspect of it. After The Old Republic has come out I thing the fans will enjoy a good story aspect to go along with the fighting. Battlefront 3 would still be cool but not as cool.

Also I feel like Bioware does story telling games fairly well so they will be better at captureing the 1313 story aspect the best.

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R-Squared wrote:

I think Republic Commando was rated M, actually...

 No it had parts like an M game but it was still rated T :)



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R-Squared wrote:

I think Republic Commando was rated M, actually...

 It was close but it was Teen, although there was a lot of blood in it



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R-Squared wrote:

I think Republic Commando was rated M, actually...

 Nope! It was rated teen actually.



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Sean Searcy wrote:

I dont like EA games personally. Their servers are very poor and usually are shut down after a couple of months.

 AMEN TO THAT!!



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Battlefront 3 defintiely needs to return...

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KingWesleyIII wrote:

Battlefront 3 defintiely needs to return...

 agreed



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all I needin some madden 10 and i am good

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