While everything portrayed in the game is canon-accurate, it’s obviously filtered through a competitive multiplayer shooter.
“You can’t make a game in Star Wars that violates the canon of Star Wars,” Jorgensen said during a quarterly earnings call yesterday, adding that since the tech and locations in Battlefront are specifically OT, it would technically violate canon to have prequel or Force Awakens things mixed in.ĭoesn’t Battlefront already violate canon? But why?Īccording to EA, it’s because of Disney’s policy of protecting the new canon across every medium.
So far, Star Wars Battlefront has only included content inspired by the Original Trilogy time period, and from the sound of it, that’s not going to change.Īccording to EA’s Blake Jorgensen, don’t hold your breath for any battle droids or First Order stormtroopers, as this edition of Battlefront will be keeping it 100% OT.
