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Amy Hennig's Star Wars Game to Match Uncharted's Genre; Will Have "Unprecedented Visuals"

Former Naughty Dog Creative Director Amy Hennig joined Dead Space developer Visceral Games to work in the same capacity on an upcoming Star Wars title, and two career opportunity ads seeking a Senior Design Director and a Senior Art Director have popped up, giving more information on what said game might entail.

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Abriael3664d ago (Edited 3664d ago )

It's the same genre as uncharted. Surprise surprise :D

Anthotis3664d ago

I hope the main character is a Twi'lek

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hay3664d ago

Here's hope for proper Force Unleashed. This idea was so promising it hurts it didn't really deliver.

ShinMaster3664d ago (Edited 3664d ago )

Star Wars 1313 WAS like Uncharted...
http://youtu.be/GKy_4HYzcN0
Set pieces reminiscent of the collapsing building or falling planes in the Uncharted games, the platforming, yeah

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3-4-53664d ago

Sounds good. Uncharted + Star Wars should be pretty solid.

alexkoepp3664d ago

Sounds good. Uncharted never appealed to me being a tomb raider clone with a male character, should be good being star wars instead. Really a shame 1313 isn't coming.

ShinMaster3663d ago

@ alexkoepp

Ok we get it, you love Xbox. At least make realistic comments.

Rhaigun3663d ago

@alexkoepp

All I heard in your statement was, "I won't play Sony's Tomb Raider clone, but I'll play the Star Wars Tomb Raider clone."

So hypocritical.

Morpheuzpr3663d ago

@alexkoepp

Funny thing is the new Tomb Raider has more of Uncharted than Uncharted had of the original Tomb Raider.

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KendrickLamar3664d ago

I thought EA was working on Battlefront from DICE.

Why didn't she just jump onto their project instead if Visceral's?

Abriael3664d ago

because Ea is working on several Star Wars games

Sevir3664d ago

They have the Star Wars ip for 10 years. And most of their studio are working on Star Wars games. DICE, Visceral and Bioware all have Star Wars games in devrlopment! I'm excited for this game! It's gonna be awesome.

joab7773664d ago

And theres an fos star wars being made by DICE.

Isnt it strange how we all wanted a Star Wars like Uncharted and now Hennig is working on it. Wierd!!

deathisgamesok3664d ago

I think Star Wars 1313 looked to have similarities to Uncharted gameplay wise. That's what got me excited about that game. And it looked really great graphics wise too. This has the potential to become a really great game.

Dirtnapstor3664d ago

Yes, if she has her hands in it, good things will come.

Clown_Syndr0me3664d ago (Edited 3664d ago )

Edit: Wrong post.

deathisgamesok3664d ago

Even though it's sad that she left Naughty Dog I'm very excited about this game.

andrewsqual3664d ago

This should be great. Would have been even better if she went back to Crystal Dynamics after so many years after working on games like Pandemonium, Soul Reaver and the Legacy of Kain games :)

joab7773664d ago

Me too. But Druckman is capable. He wrote some little game that won a couple awards last year I think...lol!

And Naughty Dog also snagged the person responsible for how Halo 4 looked on 360.

And we gonna get a proper Star Wars game too.

CrossingEden3664d ago

Could it be...the return of Star Wars 1313? Please let it be true. ಥ_ಥ
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

WeAreLegion3664d ago

The creative director on that works at Sony now, ironically enough.

andrewsqual3664d ago

Hopefully not, we don't need another Unreal Engine 3 game.

MidnytRain3664d ago

You kidding? That E3 vid was sick.

joab7773664d ago

I know that there are a ton of Jedi games. But now I want another one! But 1313 would be cool too.

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Amy Hennig's Star Wars Game Taps Director of the Infamously Cancelled Star Wars 1313

The director of the infamously scrapped Star Wars 1313 has joined the team working on Amy Hennig's upcoming Star Wars game at Skydance New Media.

Garethvk307d ago

I was at the announcement for it at E3. They had us in a side hall conference room that was just a couple rows of benches. When the gameplay and video demo started the side walls looked like windows that showed us dropping down levels in our ship to 1313.

rlow1307d ago

Glad he’s onboard, 1313 was so ahead of its time from what was shown. This bodes well for her game. Looking forward to what they are cooking up.

Profchaos307d ago (Edited 307d ago )

After 1313 cancellation and the new trilogy I think it's safe to say Disney was the worst thing that could have happened to star wars

Dirtnapstor307d ago (Edited 307d ago )

Well I hope the protagonist is not an angry, bitter woman, who is mad at the world and despises the need for men, or men themselves.

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Five Cancelled Video Games That Deserved a Chance

Gotta wonder why Starcraft: Ghost literally became a ghost.

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shinoff2183407d ago

Wish they did more then 5. There's a ton more out there.

TheSenorCheese407d ago

It's obviously something that can be revisited. But, yup, agree.

darthv72407d ago

Im surprised 1313 has not been revisited after the success of Fallen Order.

shinoff2183406d ago

Hope I will cause it sounded amazing.

Knightofelemia407d ago

I was always curious about Scalebound until it was scrapped.

TheSenorCheese407d ago

One of the titles we missed covering. But our guess? Uneasiness between Platinum and Microsoft.

Godmars290406d ago

You mean MS wanting a MP component for an obvious SP game.

porkChop406d ago (Edited 406d ago )

Platinum said they actually deserve a lot of the blame. Realistically both parties made mistakes. Platinum bit off more than they could chew at the time, and MS didn't quite understand how to just sit back and let the devs work their magic.

Hopefully the two can come together and try again because the game sounded really good.

jznrpg407d ago (Edited 407d ago )

If it was a single player game I think it would have had a better chance of coming out . Ms wanted it to be online co-op . Dragon games aren’t easy to make and making it co-op is even harder and to me that was the major factor of why it failed

gangsta_red406d ago (Edited 406d ago )

Not sure where people are getting their info that MS 'wanted' it to be co-op. From it's first teaser it was shown to have some type of co-op feature. It was probably pitched to MS as a multiplayer co-op game and Kamiya has gone on record saying he bit off a bit more than he could chew. You can definitely see elements on what they wanted to do with Scalebound in Bayonetta 3.

https://www.gematsu.com/202...

Godmars290405d ago

@gangsta_red:
Largely because the game existed before MS wanted it. Another is that more if not all Xbox titles have been online coop. Lastly, in in-game continuity, it made no sense to have customized versions of the same character popping up for boss fights. At least, as a hyped feature of the game, I've never heard explanation for it.

Regardless of what a dev, who wants to do business with MS so likely isn't going to badmouth them, says. Of course they're going to share blame in what a client wanted, even if that one thing was the exact thing making the project "more than he could chew".

gangsta_red405d ago (Edited 405d ago )

@godmars

"Largely because the game existed before MS wanted it."

Where are you getting this info from, because the story I've read is that Kamiya had the idea for a while and always wanted to make it but ultimately went with Bayonetta. He then pitched the idea to MS and then started to develop it. There may have been ideas for features from in other games that may have found there way to Scalbound, but Scalebound was not created beforehand.

"Another is that more if not all Xbox titles have been online coop."

That may be true for most MS games but that still doesn't mean it was mandated by MS for Platinum to do. And even if it was, Platinum agreed to do it, there wasn't a surprise by MS that they needed to add multiplayer halfway through development. That is not how third party development works, both parties agree through signed contracts beforehand what's expected with milestone deliverables.

"..it made no sense to have customized versions of the same character popping up for boss fights."

Not sure what you're not understanding, but there were customized versions of different players coming to help for boss fight. Maybe there was a mechanic to have characters equip different gear, the same type of features that is pretty standard found in multiple games of its type.

"Of course they're going to share blame in what a client wanted, even if that one thing was the exact thing making the project "more than he could chew"."

Kamiyah has never held back his opinions, he's been extremely outspoken in the past. Enough years has gone by for him to have told even a fraction of what you think might have happened and still not him or anyone from Platinum, from recent employees to any ex employee has said anything of what you are claiming.

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Captain America Game With Black Panther Teaser Trailer Released

At today's Disney & Marvel Games Showcase, a new Captain America game was unveiled along with a short teaser, and it features Black Panther, too.

jznrpg585d ago

Meh . Captain America is boring and I know little of Black Panther besides the movie .

chobit_A5HL3Y585d ago

no character is boring if you have good writing.

-Foxtrot584d ago

This is great, it’s like the comics where Cap ran into the Black Panther of that time period before he was frozen

Nick Fury was also in it, I’m hoping it’s the original Nick Fury not the Samuel Jackson lookalike he then played in the films

-Foxtrot584d ago

Well that was something

Kind of

I’m talking about the original before the Ultimate version

The one who was in the Howling Commandos and because he slowly ages then ran Shield in the present

https://marvel.fandom.com/w...

Ashunderfire86584d ago

Could you imagine if David Hasshoff showed up in an upcoming Avengers movie as Nick Fury? He would say: “What are you staring at? I am the original.” The crowd would be shock with laughs lol 😂

Christopher584d ago

Looks like it's a WW2 game, so won't be Black Panther from the movies anyway but one of his ancestors.

crazyCoconuts584d ago

Have you ruled out.... time travel? Parallel universes?? ;-)

Christopher584d ago

Of course not. It's Marvel. Everything gets left on the cutting room table.

northpaws585d ago

Did they say who is the developer? That's the most important question.

Vengeance1138585d ago

It's in the title of the article, Amy Hennig is making the game thus it's Amy Hennig's studio Skydance New Media making it.

crazyCoconuts584d ago

Wasn't there a recent announcement about them also doing a star wars game? Disney must have a lot of faith in this new studio

mkis007584d ago

Its bumming me out we havent got to see anything of hers since uncharted 3.

Lexreborn2585d ago

Hmm, so you will play as 4 different characters with 4 different play styles in world war 2. I’m pretty tired of games set in world war 2 but seems like the popular set piece to always go to.

It will be sort of interesting to see the narrative of The Black Panther(tachakka I am presuming) who always seemed to be uninterested in that time and who did cross paths with Capt.

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