EA has canceled Respawn Entertainments’ first-person Star Wars game, which Insider Gaming previously reported was based on a Mandalorian bounty hunter.
The news comes as a part of a company restructuring, which will see 5% of its workforce laid off and a reduction in developing games of licensed IP. As a part of this move, the Mandalorian game has been canceled.
EA has been moving away from licensed IP for a while, first rejecting the idea of a Star Wars Battlefront 3 in favor of more Battlefield content, and more recently it decided to move away from FIFA and form ‘EA Sports FC’. On Battlefront 3, which was pitched sometime in 2020 – 2021, one source said that “the project wasn’t greenlit by EA due to the licensing fees and that’s where it ended.”
Understandably, the move comes as a major shock for those working on the project, which already had several levels and a vertical slice completed.
According to sources, the game would see the player take control of a Mandalorian bounty hunter who would travel across the galaxy to capture bounties. Sources described the game as “very fast-paced” and as such will reward players who play in this style; for example, the player’s health will mainly regenerate based on successive kills.
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