Respawn Isn't Erasing Titanfall With Its Single Player Apex Legends Game
Last week, Respawn announced that it’s working on a single-player game set in the Apex Legends universe. Well, it didn’t so much announce it as eagle-eyed fans noticed some job adverts go live for a single-player title. You can see for yourself that this advert for a Hard Surface Artist on the Apex Universe FPS Incubation game (that’s probably a working title) says that the perfect candidate will be working on “a brand new Respawn single-player adventure.”
Titanfall fans are pissed off. At first glance, you can see why; Titanfall and Apex Legends are set in the same universe, and Titanfall came first. Apex is set in the Titanfall universe, not the other way around. But is that still the case?
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Apex Legends has outgrown Titanfall. It began as a spin-off, a battle royale in an established universe that fleshed out the lore for those invested in the game’s story. Not all battle royales have the luxury of a whole single-player campaign to establish their world, and Apex used the Titanfall lore well. However, as the crossovers between the games grew more frequent, Apex feels like it needs them less.
As well as being the Queen of ALGS esports, Valkyrie is the daughter of Viper, one of the enemy pilots in Titanfall 2. However, after the initial reveal and the fact that this connection got her into the games, the crossover has run its course. Viper’s dead (spoilers, I guess), so the only remaining connection Valkyrie has to Titanfall is through Apex Commissioner Kuben Blisk, who was the leader of the Apex Predators and her dad’s boss in Titanfall 2. However, in the game’s story, he’s being pushed out of his position by Octane’s dad, Eduardo
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