Earn rewards, customize troopers and heroes, then take your skills and upgrades to the online battleground. Team up with a friend in two-player offline split-screen play. As of now, EA has remained rather mum on this mode’s details, except that the split-screen specific option is only offered on consoles. Going on past the campaign is Battlefront’s split-screen co-op option. Two First Order stormtroopers from Battlefront II. He’s kind of camped on your back and he has cool skills.” It has a very symbiotic relationship with you. “You are going to be a constant companion. “You have this awesome droid that is slightly more nimble,” Joyaux said. Iden will also have a “backpack droid” as a customizable companion character. There will be scenes with Iden and giving you a different perspective on what Iden’s doing.” That’s what we’re giving you: A different perspective. So mainly you’re going to be playing as Iden, but sometimes you’re going to be playing as the heroes, like Luke and Kylo. “In the movies, they keep switching the point-of-view between the protagonist and the antagonist and it gives you a different perspective on the situation,” said content producer Paola Joyaux during the Q&A session. “Why they believed in the Empire and what it meant to be an elite Imperial special forces soldier.”Ĭoncept art of Iden’s Imperial-loyalist homeworld, Vardos.ĭuring the campaign’s missions-which Thompson referred to as “chapters”-players will be able to step outside of Iden’s shoes and play as classic Star Wars characters, such as Luke Skywalker and Kylo Ren. “We wanted to take off the helmet of a stormtrooper and find out who they were,” Thompson said. She is the daughter of high-ranking Imperial officer who brought their homeworld, Vardos, into the Empire. So we thought, ‘Hey, let’s try and tell one of those stories that connects these two amazing trilogies together.’ ”Īs a twist on what we normally see in Star Wars, Iden is allied with the Empire and not the Rebellion. “We were all super excited about that because that leaves so many amazing questions. “When Motive started to work on this campaign, it was at the time when The Force Awakens was still in theaters,” said Motive’s game director Mark Thompson during the reveal panel. The story is canon within the Star Wars universe. During those three decades, it will tell the tale of Iden Versio, the commander of the elite special forces unit Inferno Squad. It’s set to cover the roughly 30 years between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. Iden on Endor after the destruction of the second Death Star.Ĭrafted by Motive Studios, Battlefront II’s campaign begins just after the destruction of the second Death Star.
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