Respawn Entertainment is reportedly working on a new game set in the Titanfall universe.
That’s according to Giant Bomb reporter Jeff Grubb, who was discussing Respawn’s current projects after it was confirmed that parent company Electronic Arts had cancelled a Star Wars FPS that had been in development at the studio.
Announcing the game’s cancellation, EA entertainment and technology president Laura Miele said it would allow the Apex Legends maker to focus on new projects based on “Respawn’s rich library of owned brands”, in addition to existing series like Star Was Jedi.
Last year, Respawn boss Vince Zampella said a “very small” team was in the early stages of developing an original IP at the studio. The “skunkworks” team was being led by Steve Fukuda, the game director of Titanfall and Titanfall 2, and “the mission is to find the fun in something new,” he told Axios.
Seemingly referring to the same project during the latest episode of Game Mess Mornings, Grubb suggested it had entered a new prototyping phase.
“There are always conversation about Titanfall 3. Whenever I do look into it, they’re not making Titanfall 3, they just straight up aren’t,” he said on the subject of Respawn’s current projects.
“They do have another team that has been kicking around a skunkworks project, that was in very early [prototyping]. There’s different phases of prototyping, there’s a very early, very small team prototyping phase, and now they’re going to go to a wider, like this is a real project now, but still in the prototyping phase, and that has happened with that game, and that is from the director of the original Titanfall.
“This game, as it stands today, as far as I understand, is a ‘Titanfall game’, it’s in the Titanfall universe. But everyone I talk to keeps saying, well it’s not, don’t get in you’re mind that it’s Titanfall 3, like a game with online multiplayer and a single-player campaign. I’m like, well wait, what, then how is, what is this game? I still don’t know.”
“But it feels like, if you are trying to go all-in on your own IP, just expand that into being Titanfall 3, figure out a way to make that happen,” he continued.
“And then I’m reminded that they were working on Titanfall 3 essentially with Titanfall Legends, which was going to be a part of Apex Legends, and they pulled the rug out from underneath that, so it seems very unlikely that they would change their strategy and go back and actually end up making Titanfall 3.”
Last February, Bloomberg reported that EA had cancelled Titanfall Legends, an unannounced Apex Legends game that had been in development at Respawn.
Grubb subsequently reported that the project was Respawn’s attempt at getting a “Titanfall-feeling” single-player experience inside of its hugely popular free-to-play multiplayer spin-off, Apex Legends.
The campaign would’ve included characters from Apex Legends, and also BT, the titan companion featured in Titanfall 2’s story. Players would play as Apex Legends character Blisk, and navigate the world with and upgrade BT, it was claimed.
“They were going to have the legends show up and give you special powers throughout the game, so they could tie it to Apex Legends in a really strong way,” Grubb claimed.
“The thinking there was that more people have played Apex Legend than have ever heard of Titanfall, so they were really going to lean into that.”
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