Want more? Did the second teaser for Star Wars Episode VII whet your appetite? Rejoice: as if by coincidence, Electronic Arts took advantage of the convention dedicated to George Lucas's trilogy in Anaheim to unveil the first proper trailer for Star Wars Battlefront. This major reboot of the sub-series, after ten years of silence, will arrive one month before the release of the new film, on November 19, on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Hyperrealism and hyperspace...
Presented as a fledgling game at E3 2013, then shown in a little more detail through a few brief previews at E3 2014, Battlefront is now pulling out all the stops with prerendered scenes taken from the game that look as though they came straight from a film. In June 2014, the teams at DICE, the studio handling development, emphasized that they had visited various filming locations from the original trilogy. This allowed them to use a technology called photogrammetry, which creates a 3D render directly from a set of photographs, resulting in a hyperrealistic look.
It is in this environment, alongside characters that look more real than ever, that players will fight from either a first- or third-person perspective (FPS or TPS). They will be able to play story-based missions alone or in cooperation (online). Multiplayer will obviously remain a major focus, with matches supporting up to 40 players—the expertise DICE has in this area is undeniable, given the quality of the Battlefield games in this field.
