Respawn Entertainment and EA simply introduced Apex Legends, a brand new battle royale shooter set within the Titanfall universe. It’s what we’re getting as an alternative of Titanfall 3.
Back in August 2017, Respawn CEO Vince Zampella mentioned the developer was nonetheless “heavily invested” within the Titanfall collection regardless of the EA buyout, main many to imagine this meant a full sequel was coming. After speaking to Apex Legends design director Mackey McCandlish on the current reveal occasion, VG247 can verify this isn’t at present the case.
“This is the game being made by the Titanfall team, Apex Legends,” McCandish informed me. “The Titanfall universe is continuing. It takes place in the Titanfall universe. This is the next game from the team that made Titanfall. There is no other team that makes Titanfall. That doesn’t mean there never could be another team that makes Titanfall.”
I pushed McCandish on some extra details about how the groups are at present break up over at Respawn. According to the design director, a single-digit handfull of the builders from the Titanfall crew went over to work on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, however it’s basically an all-new crew making that game. The core Titanfall crew is engaged on Apex Legends and there are at present no different initiatives in growth.
“The Titanfall team makes Apex Legends,” McCandish defined. “A really one-hand variety of folks runs Star Wars to assist create that crew. Myself and others helped interview for that crew simply to lend a while to assist it get off the bottom. But I haven’t been closely concerned – it’s off to the races for them.
“The means we method growth is a game director-first method. Vince Zampella will get Stig Asmussen in, he’s made God of War, he begins hiring a great deal of folks for the crew. The crew tries totally different concepts, the crew finds what resonates, a Star Wars alternative seems, we will make that, that crew continues to construct up, get area, allocate, they begin making that game, they usually ship that game finally.
“Sometimes there are alternatives the place somebody on a crew might actually be higher on the opposite crew and there could also be slightly little bit of transition. But for probably the most half, they’re extraordinarily unbiased. We all see one another each week at one all-hands assembly.”
Apex Legends is out now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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