More Teasing from Visceral Games on Twitter About Their Star Wars Game

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While Electronic Arts will keep their Star Wars focus on Battlefront at this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), there is still no official word on Visceral’s new Star Wars game. Back in January we first revealed that Visceral’s game will focus on the adventures of a young-ish Han Solo (HERE). Later Visceral backed up our report with some hints posted on Twitter (HERE). Now another worker at Visceral Games has posted even more hints about the game…

 

 

For a while now, the Visceral staff have mentioned being very excited to reveal the game in the near future, creative director Amy Hennig and co-writer Todd Stashwick wearing some memorabilia that many would associate with a certain scoundrel. Well, it looks as though they aren’t the only ones with Han on the mind – game director Scott Warner has taken to posting a number of images of the character, the Millennium Falcon, and even the character’s famous archnemesis on a weekly (sometimes more) basis. Here are a few of the more notable ones he’s posted in the past month or so:

 


Quick note about the gameplay screenshot – that’s not from the new game, it’s from Mercenaries: Playground Of Destruction, which had a hidden Han Solo model that you could access by means of a cheat code.

 

The most important tweet sent by Scott Warner was the following image of a TIE fighter model:

 

 

The last image is particularly interesting. While one could easily presume the model is from DICE’s game, and that he’s using the image for demonstrative purposes, it could mean that the many Star Wars fields of Electronic Arts may be sharing assets. Or, at the very least, that they have enough work done on the game that they have complete models – like the TIE fighter – floating around.

 

At this point, I’m sure very few people doubt that Han Solo is going to be the focus of this game. The increased frequency at which these tweets are being made could suggest that a small, more official reveal of the game is in order – and that E3 would be the place to unveil it. Remember that the same source who told us that the game will be about Han Solo, also told us that the game will make a debute at this year’s E3. While I’m not expecting a huge announcement, but it seems like they might briefly mention the game after talking about Battlefront, or reveal some kind of footage or a teaser trailer.

 

Something that also is worth mentioning is a small note on Visceral’s job posting on EA’s website, which includes an interesting statement toward how far they’re into development on the game:

 

The Next Visceral Gameplay Engineer will be joining our team at our Redwood Shores Studio to work on our new Star Wars project, currently in pre-production. As a member of our studio’s Gameplay Engineering team you will work closely with engineers, designers and artists to develop game-play for our next AAA title.

 

That’s right – the game is still in its pre-production phase after over 2 years. Most AAA games typically have a year-long pre-production phase, followed by two years of production and post-production. A lot of that time, presumably, is being spent to work on the story. If the standard AAA model is of any indication, the earliest we could see the final product would be in late 2016 – or, more realistically-speaking, in or the middle of 2017.

 

Special thanks to The Cantina user odmichael for bringing this to our attention.

 

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Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

Grant Davis (Pomojema)

Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.

23 thoughts on “More Teasing from Visceral Games on Twitter About Their Star Wars Game

  • June 14, 2015 at 8:14 pm
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    ermagerd ster wers

  • June 14, 2015 at 8:57 pm
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    I’m tired of waiting for all this cool stuff. It feels like we ever do is wait

  • June 14, 2015 at 9:04 pm
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    Third person action game as Han Solo? Would be awesome

  • June 14, 2015 at 9:26 pm
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    Best possibility; you play as either Han or Boba. That would be a great game!

    • June 14, 2015 at 10:11 pm
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      Sounds boring to me. I am tired of this tendency to use the same characters over and over. I want something new, Star Wars is a big Galaxy with many stories that could be great for a video game. EA should be more original.

  • June 14, 2015 at 10:21 pm
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    Yeah, a game starring Han Solo, they’ll love that! Hey, next we should release a game that lets them play as a Jedi! And after that, a game where they can play as s storm trooper! Good ideas, team.

  • June 14, 2015 at 10:54 pm
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    I suspect this may be tied to the rumor of the second Anthology film involving Solo and Fett and that it’s in fact a misunderstanding because of this game.

    A side not to the author: Boba Fett is NOT Han Solo’s arch nemesis. That is completely made up by some fans. The only thing the movies indicate is that to Fett, Han was just a mark; to Han, Fett was just Jabba’s bounty hunter. Jabba the Hutt was, in fact, Han’s arch nemesis.

  • June 14, 2015 at 10:58 pm
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    With the imminent release of this young-ish Han Solo game, I can’t help but feel as if Lucasfilm has no intention of having one of the Anthology films focus on a young-ish Han Solo. Which is a shame.

    • June 15, 2015 at 1:00 am
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      I hade the same feeling reading this article, and I hope I´m right and Solo stays in videogames! 🙂

      • June 15, 2015 at 4:29 pm
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        Wonder if Han’s wife has an appearance?

        It seems every Star Wars game ever is contractually obligated to have a love interest.

        Maybe this is the reason Han’s wife was introduced in the comics? To set up / test out for her existence in this game?

  • June 14, 2015 at 11:44 pm
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    They have former members of Naughty Dog, it would be cool to get Uncharted: Han Solo. I love those 3rd person games and a Star Wars uncharted type game would be amazing.

    • June 15, 2015 at 4:50 pm
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      You said it!

  • June 15, 2015 at 12:10 am
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    Sounds kind of meh to me. I feel like some of the characters are getting way over used. Its a wild open galaxy! Im ready for a little more originality and something new. A game telling the story of darth bane for instance, would be an example of a great opportunity.

    • June 15, 2015 at 4:43 pm
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      Disney fears “New”.

      Snow White – adapted story
      Cinderella – adapted’
      Peter Pan – adapted
      Alladin – adapted
      and when you run out of 400 years worth of stories?
      Cinderalla 2 & 3
      Alladin 2 & 3 [why?]
      Peter Pan 2
      Little Mermaid 2 [maybe 3? don’t care]

      Not bad for a bunch of stories where the main characters dies at the end of book 1.

      Come to think of it, the only movies I’ve seen of disney’s that are actually ORIGINAL are “the Rescuer’s”, it’s sequel “the Rescuer’s – Down Under”, “Emporer’s New Groove”, and “the Lion King” [which, though technically being an adaptation on an African tale, at least no one thought of africa as a viable story-source before, so credit where credit’s due]. Ironically made after Disney died.

      IDK, I AM young, so maybe there’s an original story from the “golden age” of Disney that I’ve forgotten about.

      And then they started making Pixar movies, sending them right back into their “adapt non-sequel fairytales” phase, which to be fair is an improvement.
      And why does no one like Tangled? It’s far superior to Frozen- wait, I’m getting off track.

      My point is, it’s Disney’s job to be timid as f### about new things.
      Give them a few years…
      Then maybe they’ll give us a new character.

      • June 15, 2015 at 4:53 pm
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        Well, they did do The Black Hole. 🙂

        One of those movies I saw as a kid and thought was awesome, then watched as an adult and said, “What was wrong with me?”

      • June 15, 2015 at 5:25 pm
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        I liked Tangled. Thought is was a fun movie and the mother was unique yet as classic as any other Disney villain.

  • June 15, 2015 at 12:39 am
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    Still no word from BioWare?

  • June 15, 2015 at 1:04 am
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    I agree that we need new games to fill in where ROJ. ends to the 30 years after our new movie is set in TFA!

  • June 15, 2015 at 2:07 am
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    We need some more Old Republic-era stuff.

    • June 15, 2015 at 2:49 am
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      No – we do not need more Old Republic stuff. We need to move forward – post Episode VI. I’m so tired of prequels. How about something new and original?

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