Unless Red Dead Redemption 2 is suddently slated for a holiday season release, there are really only three games I’m excited about right now: Star Wars Battlefront, Call Of Duty: Black Ops 3, and Fallout 4. Yesterday the multiplayer plans for Star Wars: Battlefront were announced. It’s going to have a 10 vs. 10 Team Deathmatch mode a la Battlefield and C.o.D. and I’m AMPLE to shoot some motherfuckin’ lasers. Via EA:
Star Wars™ Battlefront’s™ Team Deathmatch mode, Blast, pits the Rebel and Imperial factions against each other with intense 10 versus 10 battles. If your team reaches 100 kills, or are ahead when the 10-minute round is over, you’ve won. Immediate, addictive, and exciting until the very last kill; that is our ambition with Blast.
Blast offers a lot of variety both in terms of gameplay and the unpredictable nature of the opposing team. Actual levels within the mode also happen to hold great variation as well.
Our Lead Level Designer Dennis Brännvall tells us about breathtaking sights within the mode that Star Wars fans will come across:
“One battle you’ll be fighting within interior levels on Endor or Sullust. In the next battle, you might find yourselves among Tatooine’s dusty canyons, or inside the undeniably cool Ice Caves on Hoth. My favorite is the verticality of Tatooine, fighting by the Sandcrawler.”
To keep the action dense in this close-quarters mode, the Blast maps are not as vast as in other game modes. You should know that they are all specifically designed for the specific game mode in mind; in other words, these aren’t just smaller versions of maps used elsewhere.
Can. Not. Wait. If you haven’t already, watch the E3 trailer for Star Wars: Battlefront here.