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The Future of Star Wars Gaming

Posted by Zonk on from the tie-fighter-2-is-long-overdue dept.

Reuters has an interview with LucasArts President Jim Ward up, and it goes into a good deal of depth about the present and future of Star Wars gaming. He suggests that Jump to Lightspeed is doing well commercially, mentions that there will be a Star Wars RTS in the next year or two, and again comfirms that there will be new Star Wars properties on TV. From the article: " We will have new live-action and animated TV shows over the next few years, and I think there's a bright future there for games based on these new properties as well as original Star Wars games like a new real-time strategy PC game that Petroglyph is developing for next year."

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  1. all I really want... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just sell me Tie Fighter (hell, even X-Wing) again, but with a graphics engine that takes advantage of modern graphics cards. Come on LucasArts, you've done it twice already. It's in the spirit of the multiple re-releases of the movies anyway.

    That being said, Mercenaries could have potential, assuming it really is free-form like GTA. The Mechwarrior: Mercenaries games were almost exactly the same as the regular versions, except your inventory had prices listed in it. Did Mechwarrior 4:Mercs even have that much? I don't remember now.

  2. Re:too much already by Fig,+formerly+A.C. · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The problem with a SW MMORPG is that everyone wants to be a Jedi. Obviously, that would ruin the "mood" of the game so they decided that almost nobody gets to be a Jedi. That served to take away the part of the game that made people want to play it.

    A good SW MMORPG will be nearly impossible just because of this dilemma.

    --
    Murphy was an optimist.