It seems that it’s bad news for Star Wars fans as EA has seemingly pulled the plug on a massive open-world game they were developing.
The game was announced in 2017 when EA closed Visceral Games and consequently cancelling their planned Star Wars games dubbed Ragtag.
EA took wnat Visceral had developed and were reworking it into a full open-word adventure in a galaxy far, far away.
Little is know about the game except it was reportedly codenamed Orca and was very early in development and “would involve playing as a scoundrel or bounty hunter who could explore various open-world planets and work with different factions across the Star Wars universe”.
Word is they cancalled it to develop a much smaller scale game that will hit shelves sooner, likely 2020 to likely coincide with next-gen consoles’ releases.
The report also states that no-one was laid-off over the change up and they do hope to finish Orca down the line.
EA released the following statement: There’s been speculation overnight about one of our Star Wars projects. As a natural part of the creative process, the great work by our team in Vancouver continues and will evolve into future Star Wars content and games. We’re fully committed to making more Star Wars games, we’re very excited about Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order from Respawn, and we’ll share more about our new projects when the time is right.
Make of that what you will, but it looks like the work on Orca will be repurposed… for a second time.
Thoughts?
Source: Kotaku
Marc
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