EA agree deal to Produce Star Wars games with Disney Lucasfilm

 So Disney and Lucasfilm announced that they have agreed a partnership with EA Games to produce new Star Wars titles for consoles, PC, tablets, mobile, handheld and more. This has come as a surprise to me, and I am left with the only hope being that within EA there are developers who have either worked with Star Wars and Lucasarts before or there are developers who should be able to create great and justifiable games for the franchise. The thing to listen out to now is how much will they listen to fans. For years and years there have been huge groups of Star Wars fans, or just fans of the games calling for Battlefront 3, Knights of the Old Republic 3 and Republic Commando 2.

I have already been putting together my wish list. Which contains all of the above titles. My hope is that EA will get Bioware working on the third installment of KOTOR and do it justice! If it is done simply as a sales gimmick, I may well boycott all EA releases, which is incredibly difficult as that would not leave me to many more games to play, adding to the fact that they now publish titles for Bioware. I have played Battlefield and believe that DICE are perfectly suited to working on both Battlefront 3 and Republic Commando 2. Developing these games would be a great choice for EA as this would be a way to reassure the fans that the franchise is in the correct hands. There are also a wealth of titles which still have potential, Force Unleashed, X-Wing TIE Fighter, Jedi Academy and many more which deserve there next installments.

Alternatively EA could go down the line of developing all new games, which is a risky business considering how hard Star Wars fans are to please on the gaming front. These are fans who feel they have not been listened to by the studios who ignore there wishes of sequels and continually develop new

ideas, which would be fine if they turned out to be any good but Star Wars Kinect was poor, Star Wars Force Unleashed 2 rushed. The biggest hope was the likes of Star Wars 1313, which is either now cancelled or on hold, but I really hope to hear that this is still in development and handed over to EA as this was a game I was truly excited for, and after such hype regarding its announcement would Lucasfilm and Disney really throw away all that hard work.

I can speculate and wish as much as I like, we will not be hearing anything concrete regarding Star Wars titles at this years E3 or before the end of this fiscal year. So April 2014 is the earliest for any official announcements. So let the rumours and speculation commence, and keep out fingers crossed for those all important titles to be given the green light, developed, announced and to be awesome and meet expectations. EA do not let me down!