Titanfall 2 – not the last in its line

EA has tried to compensate for bad financial results by announcing a slew of new games, including another new Titanfall game.

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On Monday developer Respawn made it clear that it’s not working on Titanfall 3 and that Apex Legends is its only focus at the moment, in terms of the Titanfall universe.

Little more than 24 hours later though and EA are already promising a new ‘premium’ (by which they mean not free-to-play) entry in the Titanfall universe.

At first the implication seemed to be that it won’t be by Respawn, with only a promise that the new game will have a ‘twist’.


Tons of things planned for @PlayApex in the future. We are also committed to listening to player feedback. We are also working on more Titanfall for later in the year (yes, I said the T word). We love being able to experiment in this crazy universe! — Vince Zampella (@VinceZampella) February 5, 2019

And yet despite categorically saying they weren’t developing Titanfall 3, Respawn boss Vince Zampella then tweeted that they were working ‘on more Titanfall for later in the year’.



Which presumably means it’s not technically Titanfall 3 but, because it uses the name, something that does actually involves Titans, aka giant robots.

All this came about following EA’s third quarter financial results (so when they talk about ‘year’ they mean their financial year, which ends in March) which fell short of expectations – particularly in terms of Battlefield V and FIFA 19.

Something which they must’ve known about in advance and may well explain Apex Legends’ surprise launch earlier in the week.

To keep investors happy EA reconfirmed that Respawn (who have two separate teams) will have Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order out soon, as well as new entries in the Need For Speed and Plants Vs. Zombies franchises.

There were almost no details on any of the three games but Need For Speed and Plants Vs. Zombies were both promised for this autumn, along with the new Star Wars game – which is presumably planned to come out at the same time as Episode IX in the cinema.

EA confirmed that the Plants Vs. Zombies game will be a shooter (the series started life as a Tower Defense game) and a third entry in the Garden Warfare sub-series was actually leaked last year.

The last two Need For Speed games have both been flops, so presumably EA will be looking for a new approach on the this year’s entry – but there’s currently no clue as to what that might be.

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