EA has announced that it's still developing Visceral's Star Wars game, despite shutting the studio down.
Visceral Games has been working on a third-person Star Wars RPG since 2013, but EA executive vice president Patrick Söderlund has announced that they are "ramping down and closing" their Visceral studio, responsible for the Dead Space franchise.
However, EA will still be delivering a Star Wars game, it just won't be quite the same as it was originally planned.
"Our Visceral studio has been developing an action-adventure title set in the Star Wars universe. In its current form, it was shaping up to be a story-based, linear adventure game," Söderlund explained.
"Throughout the development process, we have been testing the game concept with players, listening to the feedback about what and how they want to play, and closely tracking fundamental shifts in the marketplace.
"It has become clear that to deliver an experience that players will want to come back to and enjoy for a long time to come, we needed to pivot the design."
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To that extent, the new version will become a "broader experience" that leans into "the capabilities of our Frostbite engine" to deliver an adventure of "greater depth and breadth to explore".
Initially, the game was set to launch late in 2019, but now EA are looking at a new timeframe for release.
"Making games in the extraordinary Star Wars universe is truly a dream for so many of us at EA," Söderlund concluded. "We want to take the time to get each game right, to make it unique, to make it amazing."
At least we'll have Star Wars: Battlefront 2 to look forward to in the coming weeks.
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