EA Shuts Down Visceral Studios

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shikamaru317 said:

hudsoniscool said:

I didn't realize that's been in development for that long. Respawn pumps out games pretty quick too.

Yep, back in June 2014 it was announced that Stig Asmussen (former God of War 3 director and God of War series art director and lead environment artist) had joined Respawn to work on a 3rd person game that wasn't related to Titanfall. More Job listings showed up throughout the next year and a half, confirming the game was 3rd person action-adventure. Then finally in May 2016 we learned that that game was the Star Wars one, when they announced the Respawn Star Wars game was 3rd person. 

His initial game wasn't Star Wars though. It was something else. Respawn pitched Star Wars but ea was hesitant at first. By late 2015 ea came around and they started on Star Wars scrapping whatever they where working on first. The Star Wars team is supposedly completely separate from the titanfall one.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/respawn-star-wars-news/amp/

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o3FiUsZJWzU

Go to the last 3 or 4 minutes. That ign vid was October 2016 and he says approx. 1 year before that.