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DICE Don't Want Star Wars: Battlefront To Be Like Battlefield

When I played Star Wars: Battlefront, I commented on how much the game felt like Battlefield. I wouldn't say that it is a one to one comparison by a long shot, but the roots of developer DICE are hard to deny.

It turns out that the developer are hoping to distance themselves even further from their most iconic game though. Speaking to the Guardian, DICE head Patrick Bach said:

We have a strong legacy with Battlefield, but we did not want this to be a battlefield game – we wanted it to have a heart and soul of its own. We came at it from a very different angle. We know that the core audience of a game like this is different to the Battlefield audience. There's a crossover, but Star Wars fans expect a Star Wars game, not a Battlefield game. We looked at what Star Wars stands for, rather than asking how can we tweak Battlefield to be something else.

He added, he wants players to experience the game before fully judging though. He continued:

And, actually, we've received criticism both for not being enough like Battlefield and for being too much like Battlefield. We've had to accept the fact that people will be upset with us until they get to play it. And when people did play it at E3 almost all the negativity went away. We stayed true to what we believed in, and when people saw it, they got it, they agreed that this is a game on its own, it is not Battlefield, and they liked it.

Honestly, I don't think the Battlefield comparison hurts that much. If the idea of a Star Wars inspired Battlefield game doesn't interest you, this probably won't be your thing. I think, after you get past the 'gotcha moment' of linking the two things together though, it's actually a fairly interesting proposition.

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