EA Closes Visceral, Amy Hennig's Star Wars Game (Gaming)

by Kahzgul, Wednesday, October 18, 2017, 11:52 (2597 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

The star wars game I want is Shadow of Mordor, but you're Darth Vader hunting down and killing all of the jedi. GOD DAMN I want that game. I went so far as to call my friend at Monolith and pitch it to him, but he doesn't think it'll happen because who who owns the studios and who owns the Star Wars IP. Major bummer.

Well SoM started out as a Batman game IIRC, so you never know :)

My buddy who works for Monolith said it's a non-starter because of the Disney ownership of Star Wars. It's always possible they'll license the engine to Disney who will publish the game on their own with one of their affiliated studios, but that seems unlikely. My friend didn't say this, but I got the sense that Monolith was not interested in licensing their engine as they have big plans for it in the future and know they're sitting on some solid tech.