The Titanfall game cancelled this week was reportedly ‘a campaign in Apex Legends’
The unannounced Titanfall game said to have been cancelled by Electronic Arts this week was reportedly being planned as a single-player experience for Apex Legends.
That’s according to Giant Bomb reporter Jeff Grubb, who shared supposed details on the canned project during a live stream on Thursday, following Bloomberg’s earlier report that a team of about 50 people had been working on ‘Titanfall Legends’ at Respawn.
The EA studio announced in July 2021 that it was developing a new single-player adventure game set in a “unique universe”, which designer Mohammad Alavi was attached to before his departure last year.
According to Grubb, the unannounced project was Respawn’s attempt at getting a “Titanfall-feeling project” inside of its hugely popular free-to-player spin-off, Apex Legends.
“Titanfall Legends was not Titanfall 3, because in a lot of people’s minds I think Titanfall 3 was going to be a new, standalone game with a single-player campaign and a multiplayer, and they could just never do that again after Apex Legends changed the calculus on all of those things,” he said.
“In two weeks from now Apex Legends is going to get team deathmatch, and that was always part of a plan to turn Apex Legends into this platform where you could get all kinds of different shooter experiences from an expanded Apex Legends / Titanfall world.
“Titanfall Legends was always supposed to slot in as part of that… Titanfall Legends would be a single-player campaign inside of this platform, in the same way Call of Duty works where you get Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone is right there as well.”
According to Grubb, the thinking behind the design of the new campaign was to encourage people to use special abilities such as wall running, and not “play it
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