REDWOOD CITY, Calif. June 25 - EA's upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront is being developed by DICE, but that almost wasn't the case executive VP of EA Games Label Patrick Söderlund told CVG in an interview.
According to Söderlund, when DICE got wind that EA was in talks with Disney to acquire the license to publish Star Wars games their reaction surprised him. "We'd kill to make [Battlefront]".
Söderlund assumed with DICE's tendency to work on new IPs or their own IP, they'd have little interest in developing a Star Wars game. Apparently Söderlund isn't familiar to the sort of effect Star Wars has on gamers.
"That's when I called Frank [Gibeau, EA Labels boss] and I realised we had something here. 'If they want it that badly, then the game will be freaking awesome - we have to figure it out'. So we figured it out, we got them the game and it was that simple. They begged to do it, the opportunity was there and that's exactly why you'll see a game that will be what it needs to be," Söderlund recounted.
Executive producer of Battlefield Patrick Bach will be on the project along with other vets involved in the vehicular/shooter combat series. DICE has previously explained that the game won't simply be Battlefield skinned over with Star Wars characters and vehicles, although the game will be using DICE's Frostbite 3 Engine which is a beaut to say the least.
Despite not being a huge fan of the Battlefield series, DICE's exuberance towards Battlefront is encouraging and I expect the game will do the IP justice.
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