You're not going to be able to escape the reach of "Star Wars" for a long time.
Put more precisely, there are four new "Star Wars" games coming out in the next three years or so. — as in, the same amount of "Star Wars" films were produced between 1977 and 1999.
As a part of this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), we got (very brief!) looks at each one of these new games. These teases came as a part of Electronic Arts' (EA) press conference— the company that has exclusive rights to publish "Star Wars" games for the next ten years. Here are all the titles we know about so far:
The first is a virtual reality "mission"— a term that's probably indicative of its length — coming to the PlayStation 4's PlayStation VR headset later this year. It's being made by DICE (the company that made the recently released "Star Wars: Battlefront") and Criterion, who you might know for the "Burnout" and "Need for Speed" series.
Those of you who weren't fans of the recent multiplayer shooter "Star Wars: Battlefront" are going to be disappointed — the next big "Star Wars" game is going to be a sequel to that title, arriving in 2017. Now, DICE has said it is working to improve on what the first "Star Wars: Battlefront" delivered, so keep your fingers crossed that it delivers on that promise.
The next truly exciting "Star Wars" game is coming in 2018 (it will be here sooner than you think!) from Visceral Games, a company best known for the creepy "Dead Space" series. It's being lead by Amy Hennig, the head writer and creative director on the first three games in the massively popular "Uncharted" series. Just a few seconds of early footage was shown for this game during EA's press conference, but it looks like it will be a third-person action adventure game. Though we don't know for sure, we're betting this one will be a grittier, shooter-style game, and probably won't feature a lightsaber-wielding protagonist.
Even farther off is another action-adventure game in early development by Respawn Entertainment, the company behind the multiplayer shooter "Titanfall" and the soon-to-be-released "Titanfall 2." This game is so early in development that the only thing we saw during E3 was some footage of actors in those snazzy ping-pong ball motion capture suits. As opposed to the game being made by Visceral, this one looks like it will prominently feature Jedi. There's no release date attached to this game yet, likely because it's still in the early stages of development, but expect to see this in 2019 or possibly 2020.
If that's not enough to whet your appetite, there will also be new content for existing "Star Wars" games coming over the next year or so. That includes:
- Three more expansion packs for "Star Wars: Battlefront"
- New content coming to the mobile strategy game "Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes"
- New expansions coming to the massive multiplayer online game "Star Wars: The Old Republic"
What did we tell you? There's a lot of "Star Wars" coming your way, so batten down the hatches, grab a lightsaber, and get to work.
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