We've Seen 7 Minutes of Star Wars: Battlefront Gameplay | IGN

After making do with concept art and snippets of 'in-engine' gameplay for the last couple of years, we've finally seen what DICE has done with Battlefront. And based on seven minutes of PS4 gameplay, it's clear what the mission has been: make the most faithful video game adaptation of the original trilogy to date.

[kiz2694]

When is the trailer coming out? I dont wanna reaad I wanna see!

[--Onilink--]

10:30am PT is when the panel starts (in an hour basically)

[kiz2694]

Awesome thanks, u have a link for the panel if its being streamed? Cheers

[Rute]

http://starwars.ea.com/star...

[venom06]

The trailer was awesome... CAN NOT WAIT FOR THIS GAME..

[mikeslemonade]

Nice.. and EA decided not to double dip in last gen hardware(WiiU, PS3, 360, mobile).

Must buy!

[sinjonezp]

Watched the trailer and must say I am Impressed if the visuals hold up on ps4 and xb1. My real concern is content . Been reading that it will only be four planets to start with and others will be released later. Will we see significant amounts of dlc? If we spend 60 dollars on a full priced video game...as gamers... Should we not feel we should get a full priced experience? I can honestly start to see a trend of gamers playing the waiting game for buying games. Game devs release games and then we have a plethora of dlc but if u wait long enough they will release a game of the year, gold, etc edition of the game at a lower price. I see articles about mkX where some are saying just wait. Or wait for a used version. I think companies do milk Us dry and it sucks. It makes us change our spending habits. I just hope for my 60 dollars we get a awesome experienced worth the price of admission.

[R6ex]

Until I see the actual gameplay (not in-engine trailer) will I decide to Pre-Order.

[Crazyglues]

@ kiz2694

oh ok Rute already hooked you up... just follow that link...

[hiredhelp]

Yoda sais The force is strong with Sony..

[King-u-mad]

i really hope they keep 3rd person. if it's purely a fps it will be a total let down for me.

[kraenk12]

it was already stated both options are possible.

[Nekroo91]

PS4 gameplay?! That's surprising usually Dice shows pc footage when they show a game to public for the first time.

[OUROSMAG]

They've also claimed it looks the same across all platforms, and The rumor this morning is Sony has the marketing rights, similar to what they did with Destiny.

[LonDonE]

LMAO thats too funny, so sony paid for marketing rights to star wars battlefront, yet the place where you will get to play the game first is xbox one via ea access? lol too funny

What an epic fail!!!
If i was sony i would demand it gets held back from ea access till launch!
Either way i am chuffed, i will download and play it first on my xbox one via ea access and then if i like it buy it on my ps4.

[Highlife]

Makes sense that Sony will be marketing this. Microsoft will be all over halo

[MasterCornholio]

"yet the place where you will get to play the game first is xbox one via ea access?"

Unless the PS4 gets an exclusive beta or something similar.

[SkippyPaccino]

Maybe this was part of the Sony Disney deal to bring Spider-Man back to the Avengers.

Just some left field speculation. Lol

[its_JEFF]

Seems like a smart move and money well spent... attach one of the biggest names to your platform. All the ads leading up to the game will read as a PS4 game. Because of this deal Xbox might not even be allowed to advertise that you'll be able to play it first on EA Access, but who knows.

[_-EDMIX-_]

"They've also claimed it looks the same across all platforms" Nope...what was said was the trailer released looks the same across all platforms, not that the whole game under all settings will look that way on all platforms.

That is not only nit picking, its taking what one is saying to some literal extreme. What ever the minimum GPU on PC is for this game is likely the level of detail for the console versions.

He likely was stating that is the minimum for ALL the versions.

Of course on PC it can look better with a better GPU, settings etc.

[LonDonE]

@MasterCornholio
Agreed, its most likely that there will be a beta for star wars battlefront and it will be on PS4 first or only on ps4.
Still i know if i paid for the sony ea deal for SWB i would not want the game first playable in complete code, meaning finished on my rivals platform.

I still think sony was dumb to say no to ea access, and should of given us the gamers the choice.
I dont see playstation now being a valid reason since ea access only offers current gen games and playstation now does not offer current gen games.

Man if ea added all the PS3/360 back catalogue of ea games then ea access would become a monstrous deal, i already feel its good value for money.
IF they added the PS3 and 360 catalogue then that would further hurt used games sales which would be better for the industry.

[NeverHeavyMan]

It may have to do with, and this is just a rumor, the fact that Sony has the marketing rights for it. In that case, it makes sense.

[Thatguy-310]

Like everyone above me says this means Sony has the marketing rights. Kudos for them! Now bring a limited edition sku for holiday and this will have a stronger force than Destiny did last year. This generation Sony has been partnering with the right multiplatform games to widen their sale gap.

[reallyNow]

dat gap

[playstation4epic]

Marketing rights for Sony. So will probably sell a million consoles for Sony again like Destiny

[DigitalRaptor]

Yeah,,,, if Destiny sold a million (it would be more by now) consoles for Sony, I'd be very curious to know how a juggernaut franchise like Star Wars from the Battlefield devs will fare for their success this holiday season.

Marketing rights to a Star Wars game is a HUGE get, and I'm surprised Microsoft didn't put down the dollar for it. They have the Star Wars name, and pseudo-marketing in the words "BATTLEfront" and "DICE" on the box. Sony were smart to spend on this one.
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Edit: I'm bewildered by all these disagrees, when only a couple of months ago, I was getting more agrees than disagrees for posting facts and logic. Nothing has changed on my part. It's absolutely utterly senseless.

The dude who I replied to said nothing any less or more antagonistic or fanboyish or less true or false than I did, yet I get more disagrees than agrees. Something's going on.

[Elit3Nick]

Stop torturing us like this, we want some damn gameplay NAOW!!!

[JRobes]

the entitlement and impatience is strong with this one

[Elit3Nick]

Entitlement, no, impatience, very

[Rute]

Impatience leads to anger, anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering... Impatience is the path to the dark side, young padawan Elit3Nick.

[Dabigsiebowski]

Quit with the horrible Yoda talk, you are ruining our memory of him.

[garrettbobbyferguson]

"I want to see gameplay footage so I can give you money!"

"God, stop being so entitled!"

[Rute]

The trailer releases in 45 minutes...

http://starwars.ea.com/star...

[Enyxodin]

In the article they mention four locations: Endor, hoth, tatooine and sullust...does this mean it will only be 4 maps at launch??😕 and they also mention up to 40 players...wasnt it going to be up to 64 players in a server?

[--Onilink--]

i doubt it will be just 4 maps. Probably 2+ maps per planet. I dont recall they ever mentioned player count before. I dont mind if its 40, just adding more players doesnt necessarily make it better, its all in the balance.

[garrettbobbyferguson]

As long as they allow custom servers/matches on PC. A lot of us still play in massive 100+ battles.

[isa_scout]

As much as I love BF4 I'm so happy to see that it's nothing like a Battlefield game. I know people are complaining about certain aspects, but honestly did any of us play Battlefront for the campaign? As far as the four locations thing I don't think that will be a problem. They'll probably treat it the same as BF and have a few huge maps with a bunch of smaller maps based on the same four locations. All I need to know is will there be bots? Twenty players with say 10 in various vehicles on each team seems kinda barren if the maps are half the size of a BF4 conquest map.... There NEEDS to be bots.

[kingeliran]

After reading all of it, it sounds like the game is going to disappoint, the game is aiming to be more graphics then gameplay,
dont expect it to be battlefield epic, to sum it up:

-they went from 64 players like in battlefield to 40 players.
-no Space battles.
-heroes in game, which if done wrong it can be verry annoying to other none hero players.
-7 to 10 vehicles :(
-4 maps at launch (sucks!!)

it sounds like it is going to be so rushed up to release so they going to have only 4 maps and add a free dlc later of maps .(really? thank you EA it was supposed to be in the full game in the first place.)

they are probably going to charge 60-80$ for the game, and mark my words its going to be a disaster at launch, it is clearly rushed because they are going to release it about the same time of the movie release (more money grap for EA).

[reko]

check the video

[Gority]

This isn't a battlefield game, it is a Battlefront game.

Play battlefield instead... Let the battlefront fans have the game they want.

[Utalkin2me]

@kingerliran

"-they went from 64 players like in battlefield to 40 players."

Maybe they felt 64 players was to much, and felt 40 players ran better and was better suited. Cause we know how 64 players games run in BF4.

"-no Space battles."

Maybe they will add later, like a air superiority like BF4. As of right now i am fine with that.

"-heroes in game, which if done wrong it can be very annoying to other none hero players."

Seems you're just trying to find stuff to nitpick now.

"-7 to 10 vehicles :( "

That seem like a perfect amount for a "Star Wars" game. Its going to be a little centered around foot assault then just flooding the map with vehicles. Which i am totally glad they are doing.

"-4 maps at launch (sucks!!)"

4 planets, doesnt mean only 4 maps. You could have several maps per planet.

This is not a Battlefield game, it's a Star Wars game. If you want massive amount of vehicles and 64 players then go play your BF4 CQ. I for one am glad they are not basically making it BF4 but start wars themed. I want it to feel like a stars wars game not BF.

[SegaGamer]

I must admit, no space battles thing is a massive disappointment. If they add it as DLC later i am going to be seriously annoyed. I'm sick of DLC as it is.

[RegorL]

The complaint about "Only four planets..." for some time I have wondered how they fit it all on medium (DVD for XBox360 and PC). What does this mean...
two DVDs is needed for the amount of data in RAM of PS4/XBoxOne...

A Blu-ray isn't that big either... only six times the amount of RAM (OK some data can be compressed on distribution medium and other data can be generated procedural)

So more planets might equal less quality for all.
Unless it is delivered as DLC later...

Another thing I prefer learning one map before jumping to next. (Major reason for Betas being nice)

[hkgamer]

just saw the trailer, looks pretty amazing. however it says in engine footage. not sure if its running on a ps4 or if it is running realtime.

it seems like its running on a high end pc despite watching a playstation trailer

[MCTJim]

its not in game footage if that is what you are asking.

[hkgamer]

i know its not ingame, just wondering if it was on ps4 or if it was running realtime.

tlou cutscenes were all inengine but not running realtime.

[BallsEye]

no it wasn't realtime gameplay.

2:08 Frostbite game engine footage representative of Playstation 4. Not actual gameplay.

[RegorL]

Got the video from Sony

https://www.playstation.com...

There is an interesting disclaimer at the end of the video.

"FROSTBITE GAME ENGINE FOOTAGE REPRESENTATIVE OF PLAYSTATION 4. NOT ACTUAL GAMEPLAY."

My guess is that DICE is quite confident in how it will look at Playstation 4, models, texture, effects in use. And thus can generate close enough videos.

My understanding of Frostbite tools is that they "compile" game assets for each target from source data. It can also know what version of lightning and rendering algorithms will be used including anti aliasing algorithm.

Edit: confirmation?!
https://twitter.com/klabunk...

[ginsunuva]

"running on a ps4 or if it is running realtime"

Realtime has nothing to do with Ps4.

Trailer is In-Engine. Meaning they can spend hundreds of hours letting it process (it doesn't matter what machine does that). Then they record that and play it, like CGI movies, except they're only using the game's engine to do it.

[hkgamer]

sorry, shouldnt have had the "or" in the question, should have been 2 seperate questions.
i was asking if it was real time because they could have spent hours processing the image.
if it was running realtime then i would want to know if its running on ps4.

regorL just posted a tweet that says it is running real time inengine on a ps4spec which means we should expect something similar to this.

[jay2]

Now show us it! (as in the game play) . (It's worth pointing out that while this sounds similar to the footage featured in the debut trailer; it wasn't as tightly orchestrated as that footage and IGN was told it captured from a build running on PlayStation 4.) and FFS fake PC footage trailer on the PS4 trailer.

[Sokol]

This is EA, don't forget what they're able to do with DLC and Micro Transactions.

They have done it before and with Star Wars under their wing now, I except nothing less then milking the customer for every single penny they can.

[SegaGamer]

Maps, guns, characters.........i can see this all being released as DLC and it will suck ass.

[clevernickname]

So when is the general public going to see actual gameplay? September, just before the game releases? It's getting ridiculous now.

Gamers have innumerable reasons to be skeptical given the industry track record of the last five or so years.

[SpinalRemains138]

Can't wait to play this game.

[spicelicka]

How the hell do they write a huge article and not talk about the graphics that were shown in the trailer today. They said they've seen 7 minutes of the game. TELL US if that trailer is how the freakkin game looks like!!!!!??!

[ion666]

I can't those little girls at IGN. With thier schoolyard superiority, Nah Nah I have ice cream and you dont.. bull sh!t!!

[Father__Merrin]

pc will likely look better but that's entirely dependant on how much you want to spend on hardware. Tbh huge titles like this are always better played on consoles.

[ginsunuva]

Yes, just like Battlefield 3 was better played on consoles.

[josephayal]

best game ever?

[Spid3r6]

It looks like PS4 again will not have that many first party at the end of the year. Thus the reason why picking this up as a marketing channel. I guarantee there will be bundle!

[strickers]

PlayStation tend to put games out all year.

[RomanPSX]

I cant wait to kill some Jedi's! Dark side 100℅! Looks awesome, now show some gameplay plz...

[Umbasa]

3rd or 1st person?
Back on ps2 i used to play the sh#t out of these games, i have nothing against fps online but it would be nice to have it stay true to its roots. There are a LOT of fps multiplayer games.

[WilDRangeRfc]

You can choose to play 3rd or 1st person,its up to the player I believe

[Umbasa]

thanx

[TonyPT]

And where is the gameplay again?

[PistolsAtDawn]

NICE!! Def day one buy for me. My X1 will probably get taxed to death this year and I may have to buy another one this Christmas.

[StrayaKNT]

Serious question. Didn't every single person on this site hate dude bro shooters and multiplayer games with no campaigns (Titanfall) all of a sudden this gets revealed and everyone is dying for it? Is it because it's a multiplat? Because I can bet anything that this game will never ever surpass Titanfall in multiplayer gameplay.

OT graphics do look sick though I can't wait to see actual gameplay footage

[Gazondaily]

Bro they are different games mate. Titanfall is 6v6 arena shooter and this is more in the vein of battlefield focusing on large scale war. The previous games are a good indication of what it is and there is very little to compare.

But yeah, lack of campaign was scoffed at before and not here. Games like this don't need it just as Titanfall wouldn't have either if it had the abundance of modes it has now.

[StrayaKNT]

I know and I agree but literally everyone on this site bashed Titanfall for being mp only and now all of a sudden they all love this its weird lol but we all know why

[Gazondaily]

Yeah its idiocy. Battlefield 2 was mp only. Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament were too (unless you count chucking in bots).

Silly argument

[MysticStrummer]

There's never been a time that every single person on this site agreed on anything.

[JamesBondage]

is this game going to have any kind of single player story mode? or will it be just multiplayer?

[luxtronix]

only multi + coop + split screen

[RedMotive]

I hope they keep the Republic versus Separatists side of it as well as the aforementioned Rebellion versus Empire.
Personally I prefer the former in Star Wars: Battlefront games.

[bc_jeffro]

YES cant wait, such good gaming with BF2 this just looks amazing.

[fitfox]

NOW this game looks NEXT GEN!

[Tzuno]

N4g is infested with articles about this game, now that's boring.

[WilDRangeRfc]

Got to admit I have never been a massive Star Wars fan (prefer Star Trek) but since I found out about this game I am really hyped for it.Never played Battlefront before so is it just Battlefield with a Star Wars skin?? What game modes are available?? So far the game from what I have heard this game is set to be awesome,looks true next gen aswell,maybe this game will get me into the Star Wars universe,day one for me and a big suprise as this was way under my radar