Star Wars Battlefront trailer

Game2k
Friday, April 17, 2015 | 9:58 PM
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Following its demo at the Star Wars Celebration event, here is the first batch of screenshots from EA and DICE's Star Wars Battlefront. The title is focused on multiplayer shoot-outs up to 40 players and wil launch on November 17th for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Update2: 35Mbps trailer added.

Star Wars™ Battlefront™ Begins Shipping Across the Galaxy November 17, 2015
EA, DICE and Lucasfilm Invite You to Immerse Yourself in Your Star Wars™ Battle Fantasies, Watch the New Star Wars™ Battlefront™ Trailer Now
Pre-Order Star Wars Battlefront and Be Among the First Players to Experience a Pivotal Battle Preceding Star Wars™: The Force Awakens™*

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DICE™, an Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:EA) studio, and Lucasfilm announced today that Star Wars™ Battlefront™ will be released beginning November 17, 2015 in North America (November 19 in Europe) as the first full-length trailer for this highly anticipated title premiered to thousands of fans at Star Wars™ Celebration. Combining an unprecedented collaboration with Lucasfilm and the award-winning Frostbite™ game engine, Star Wars Battlefront will deliver an incredibly authentic and immersive interactive entertainment experience featuring photorealistic visuals and epic action in iconic Star Wars™ locations. See how this comes to life in-engine by experiencing the newest trailer for Star Wars Battlefront at <99ea>http://starwars.ea.com/battlefront.

“Like so many others around the world, everyone at DICE is a tremendous fan of the Star Wars universe,” said Sigurlina Ingvarsdottir, Senior Producer of Star Wars Battlefront. “To be working on a Star Wars project and knowing we are helping to represent the universe we love to our generation and a legion of new Star Wars fans is truly an honor. Thanks to the access and knowledge shared with us by Lucasfilm, and the passion and talent of our team, we plan to deliver an amazing game that puts you right in the middle of the Star Wars battles you always imagined playing.”

Star Wars Battlefront will allow fans to live out a wide range of heroic moments and intense battle fantasies of their own – firing blasters, riding speeder bikes and snow speeders, commanding AT-ATs and piloting TIE fighters and the Millennium Falcon. These battles will take place on some of the most iconic planets in the Star Wars universe, including Endor, Hoth, Tatooine and the previously unexplored planet, Sullust. Gamers will be able to play as some of the most memorable characters in the original trilogy such as Darth Vader and Boba Fett. Star Wars Battlefront will feature a wide range of modes tailored for different types of battles, from larger 40-person competitive multiplayer to crafted missions that are played solo, with a friend via split-screen offline or co-operatively online.

Fans who pre-order Star Wars Battlefront will be among the first players to experience the Battle of Jakku*, the pivotal moment when the New Republic confronted key Imperial holdouts on a remote desert planet on the Outer Rim. Taking place in the aftermath of the Rebel victory in the Battle of Endor, players will experience the events that created the massive, battle-scarred landscape of Jakku shown in Star Wars™: The Force Awakens™. Players who pre-order Star Wars Battlefront can fight the battle one-week early starting on December 1, 2015. All other players will get access to this free† content on December 8, 2015.

Star Wars Battlefront will be available in North America on November 17 and starting November 19 in Europe for the PlayStation®4 computer entertainment system, Xbox One™, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft and on Origin™ for PC. To join the Star Wars Battlefront conversation please visit www.facebook.com/EAStarWars, follow us on Twitter® at www.twitter.com/EAStarWars or sign up for the official EA Star Wars newsletter at http://starwars.ea.com/newsletter

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Commented on 2015-04-17 19:35:40

If it looks anywhere near as good as this during gameplay, I'll eat my own bollocks.

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Sdarts

Commented on 2015-04-17 19:38:01 In reply to MrWhite

The livestream video said it was in engine footage, and I believe these images were taken from it. I doubt it will look like this even at max settings on PC.

andrewsqual

Commented on 2015-04-17 19:45:55 In reply to MrWhite

Well here is something that just went up now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLaoiNUhDeQ
Hopefully they will put it up on their real asset site and Gamersyde can get it up then :)
(Put the EA UK version up now.)

pildor

Commented on 2015-04-17 19:56:10

I seriously cannot believe the visuals of the trailer becoming real in the PC version.

Looked just too good.

SplitTongue

Commented on 2015-04-17 19:58:31

Did the web break yet ?

toelessfoot

Commented on 2015-04-17 20:06:13

Trailer looks so amazing, best grfx eva

Commented on 2015-04-17 20:09:22 In reply to MrWhite

Posted by MrWhite

I expect actual gameplay to get pretty close to the trailer in terms of visuals, I mean BF4 is 1.5 years old and the visuals still blow my mind every time I play it.

Dice is talented as hell

Dan2510

Commented on 2015-04-17 20:11:14

No single player. No game.

GriftGFX

Commented on 2015-04-17 20:13:59

I'm all for multiplayer-only titles. Sink those resources into the part of the game that people actually play.

Commented on 2015-04-17 20:25:00 In reply to toelessfoot

Posted by Dan2510

How many times have you played the BF3 and 4 campaigns, just out of curiosity? I vaguely remember playing BF4's, and I wish I hadn't. That was a few hours of my life I won't get back, so if it means they are concentrating on the actual part of the game that people will be buying it for, then that's a good thing. The game might actually turn out to be good on day one.

Posted by toelessfoot

It might get close. But people get too excited when they hear the term "in-engine" thinking that it's basically how the game will look. Not so. There's virtually little difference to "in-engine" compared to actual offline CGI these days. The only real difference is that they are using the game's rendering engine, albeit with everything maxed to the testicles and about as much high end resources of the game assets they can throw at it, with a side of performance killing post effects that you wont see in the actual game. It all adds up to something that looks the part and still looks like a game.

[quote=Dan2510]No single player. No game.[/quote]
How many times have you played the BF3 and 4 campaigns, just out of curiosity? I vaguely remember playing BF4's, and I wish I hadn't. That was a few hours of my life I won't get back, so if it means they are concentrating on the actual part of the game that people will be buying it for, then that's a good thing. The game might actually turn out to be good on day one.

[quote=toelessfoot]

I expect actual gameplay to get pretty close to the trailer in terms of visuals, I mean BF4 is 1.5 years old and the visuals still blow my mind every time I play it.

Dice is talented as hell[/quote]It might get close. But people get too excited when they hear the term "in-engine" thinking that it's basically how the game will look. Not so. There's virtually little difference to "in-engine" compared to actual offline CGI these days. The only real difference is that they are using the game's rendering engine, albeit with everything maxed to the testicles and about as much high end resources of the game assets they can throw at it, with a side of performance killing post effects that you wont see in the actual game.  It all adds up to something that looks the part and still looks like a game.

Kouzmich

Commented on 2015-04-17 20:31:13

They should have released those 5 mins of gameplay instead of this cinematic meh.

MordeaniisChaos

Commented on 2015-04-17 20:45:18 In reply to MrWhite

Posted by GriftGFX

Agreed. The SP was never GOOD in Battlefront anyway.

Eh, this isn't that much better than BF4 visually. It lokos pretty awesome, but I expect playing on my 980 that this is absolutely what this game will look like.
In engine is more like "PC max settings with special animations."
It's not CGI at all.
Keep in mind we haven't seen a nicely compressedversion of the trailer either, and compression hides flaws. When Gamersyde gets us a nice 1080 version (fingers ccrossed) we will see what it REALLY looks like.

[quote=GriftGFX]I'm all for multiplayer-only titles. Sink those resources into the part of the game that people actually play.[/quote]
Agreed. The SP was never GOOD in Battlefront anyway.
[quote=MrWhite]It might get close. But people get too excited when they hear the term "in-engine" thinking that it's basically how the game will look. Not so. There's virtually little difference to "in-engine" compared to actual offline CGI these days. The only real difference is that they are using the game's rendering engine, albeit with everything maxed to the testicles and about as much high end resources of the game assets they can throw at it, with a side of performance killing post effects that you wont see in the actual game.  It all adds up to something that looks the part and still looks like a game.[/quote]
Eh, this isn't that much better than BF4 visually. It lokos pretty awesome, but I expect playing on my 980 that this is absolutely what this game will look like.
In engine is more like "PC max settings with special animations."
It's not CGI at all.
Keep in mind we haven't seen a nicely compressedversion of the trailer either, and compression hides flaws. When Gamersyde gets us a nice 1080 version (fingers ccrossed) we will see what it REALLY looks like.

Loakum

Commented on 2015-04-17 20:49:54

That can't possibly be in game gameplay PS4 graphics.....can it?

Commented on 2015-04-17 20:52:00 In reply to Loakum

Posted by Loakum

Sure it can, pigs also fly and this weekend I will hold a party for Santa and the Easter Bunny. =P

Sath

Commented on 2015-04-17 21:03:47

Looks great, maybe wont look like that when it comes out but Frostbite engine is awesome especially when DICE uses it and i think BF4 looks great.

But with time until this releases they will just improve upon it, but yeah, loved the trailer!

norbert

Commented on 2015-04-17 21:07:45 In reply to Dan2510

Same here dude. Barely play games online lol. Downgrade incoming for sure

Commented on 2015-04-17 21:13:04 In reply to MordeaniisChaos

Yeah, but no. This looks a hell of a lot better than BF4 does visually, especially given the fidelity of the actual models and the effects involved. That, and of course there's the destruction element. The game will not look like this, and I think you've taken what I've said about there being little difference to offline CGI out of context. The workflows are almost entirely the same, and there's no need to worry about performance issues.

Commented on 2015-04-17 22:16:25

Thanks -SD- and Gamersyde for the trailer in high quality!

It looks fantastic at this quality. The Boba Fett scene, for example, almost looks like a scene from one of the recent movies.

And the sound quality is top notch as well, this even made me rewatch it just to hear the sounds again, they all feel so authentic - like if I was watching one of the movies.

In-engine shenanigans aside, this looks very promising. I hope to see some mind-blowing gameplay at E3 2015.

Commented on 2015-04-17 22:25:30 In reply to Sdarts

Posted by Sdarts

Can I come to the party. I've always respected Santa Clause for giving me free stuff, when I was little. He's a very great, great man.

Tinks

Commented on 2015-04-17 22:45:03

After seeing the new GTA and the levels it reached, I expect it to be kinda close to this quality
DICE games generally are pretty nice looking too

spacemanjupiter

Commented on 2015-04-17 22:46:17

Will it look like this? Probably not. Will it still be really impressive? Probably so. I'm super excited. You actually can see some aliasing on that scene near the end with the X-wings. I think the visuals may actually get close to this but I can't see them pulling that off on the PS4 without 30fps. Xbone, 30fps sub 1080. Either that or visual downgrade and 60fps. I think the PC will get close to what is in the video. Devs are now able to concentrate on better hardware and leaving old consoles behind. I think next year will show some surprising visuals for the consoles, and therefore the PC to an even greater extent.

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user82

Commented on 2015-04-18 00:09:42

Crysis 1, 2016 reloaded edition?
Looks like it could kill any high end PC even a year after release.

Kotu

Commented on 2015-04-18 00:26:12

it looks great but as always it's "in engine" which means nothing really. I'm sure it will be downgraded to oblivion. Game looking like this in full hd and 60 fps on consoles... LOL

exenter

Commented on 2015-04-18 01:05:41

Frostbyte engine still has ugly water and reflections. The graphics will surely be downgraded and a blue or grey filter will be added, just like all BF games.

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