Along with giant-robot battles, science meets magic in this sequel, but it will be “grounded and dirty and human and real!”
[dropcap size=small]I[/dropcap]n the last couple weeks, some details have sprung up involving Titanfall 2. Interview lead writer Jesse Stern, who worked on the first Titanfall game, was interviewed with Forbes and said this game will have a campaign mode for those who love playing a story before bashing their best friends online. Stern also said that Lionsgate is working on a TV spinoff series.
Unsure of the release date for Titanfall 2, Stern added that Respawn Entertainment began working on the Titanfall 2 project late in 2014. EA did confirm that it’s scheduled to be released between April 1, 2016 and March 31, 2017. There have been rumors that the sequel will be for multiple platforms to spread out to a variety of gamers and Stern said that the game will be “even better.” Stern said the biggest disappointment to players in the first game was that there was no story mode to answer all the questions that gamers had about the game. I couldn’t agree more with Stern on not having a story mode, even if there are players that skip the story mode to play online. A new game like this needs a story mode to help explain your character, background and everyone else around you.
“One of the shortcomings of the first game was we just did not have the mechanism to tell everyone ‘Here’s who you are, here’s where you are and who’s around you,'” Stern said. “We knew all the answers, we just could not deliver it.”
The Titanfall campaign will focus on “grand colonial warfare” that compares to the American Revolution and American Civil War, but all of it is in space. Stern said:
“We imagined the next generation of immigrants moving out to the new frontier of an inhabitable planet. Rather than taking a traditional sci-fi approach to that we wanted to look at how that would happen practically, what the ships would look like and with machines that were designed for excavation and construction, demolition and working the land, and what happens when they are turned into instruments of war. What inspires us is the junction of technological advancement with the inevitability of conflict and war and what the next war might look like. In Titanfall 2 there will be a lot of [scenes] where science meets magic, but keeping it grounded and dirty and human and real.”
In the second part of the interview, Stern said that Lionsgate is working on a TV spinoff series. There are few details that were given out, due to how new the idea is. But Stern did say that the project “will be very expensive” due to the source material.
“We are trying to find a way to tell a story in the worlds we want to be in and produce in the TV model,”
You can read the full Forbes interview here for more on the Titanfall sequel game and TV show!
