When Disney bought the rights to Star Wars from George Lucas, that spelled the end of veteran games developer Lucasarts. Instead, it was EA that stepped in as the sole developer of games set in that galaxy far, far away.
What wasn't clear was what form those games would take. It's been confirmed that Battlefield developer DICE is working on the multiplayer shooter Battlefront, but beyond that the future of Star Wars games has been murky.
Now EA boss Andrew Wilson has pierced the veil of the Dark Side and revealed his plans to CNN - and it seems that the Batman: Arkham series is the model they're looking at. "What Warner Bros. did with Batman was take the core roots of that IP and manifest that inside the walls of Gotham City and delivered an interactive experience that had real ties to what you would see in the films and what you had read in the comics," Wilson said. "When we look at the Star Wars properties that's how we're looking at it."
In a cute coincidence, the role of The Joker in Arkham Asylum and Arkham City was played by Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill.
What we won't be seeing, apparently, is any games based on the upcoming new Star Wars trilogy due to reach cinemas next year. "We're not trying to build a game that replicates the storyline of any particular film," insisted Wilson.
Published: 26/03/2014
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