Speaking during an interview with Forbes, Titanfall series Lead Writer, Jesse Stern, confirmed a slew of new details on the upcoming sequel to the Xbox One-exclusive shooter, including the presence of a single-player campaign.
Stern revealed that Titanfall 2, which will be released on PlayStation 4 in addition to Microsoft’s current-generation console, has been in development for around two years now.
"So we are doing our best to deliver a vision of grand global colonial warfare retelling the story of the American Revolution and the American Civil War in space. 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."
Elsewhere, Stern also said the team is looking at the possibility of releasing a TV series to coincide with the release of the sequel, though nothing has been confirmed as of yet.
Developed by Respawn Entertainment Titanfall was released on Xbox One in early 2014, and became one of the console’s early must-have exclusives. The sequel was confirmed as a multiplatform title in early 2015, and will be released at some point in Electronic Arts’ FY 2017.
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