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Title: Visceral's unannounced Star Wars game
Post by: Matt on April 3, 2014, 02:28 PM
Visceral's mysterious SW game is, to me, the most-intriguing one to come out of the EA deal. Even moreso than DICE's Battlefront. This hire may provide a little insight into what kind of game we might be getting:

Polygon: Amy Hennig joins EA's Visceral Games to work on Star Wars (http://www.polygon.com/2014/4/3/5578570/amy-hennig-ea-visceral-games-star-wars)

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Steve Papoutsis, vice president and general manager at Visceral, made the announcement in a post on EA's The Beat blog.

"Amy has long been recognized as one of our industry's top visionaries, and is coming off an amazing run as the Writer and Creative Director of the Uncharted franchise," Papoutsis wrote. "But her contributions go beyond the games she helped create at Naughty Dog and at Crystal Dynamics, where we worked together many years ago. As both a colleague and friend, I've always admired her approach to creative development — focusing on nailing down the soul of a game first, and then making sure the writing, the gameplay, the design and the art comes together to form a unified, interactive experience for the player. This fits in perfectly with what we're trying to do here at Visceral and Amy's going to help us continue in our pursuit to make the most thrilling, immersive games in the world."

Hennig started her video game development career at Electronic Arts in the early '90s. On Twitter, she spoke of her desire to work on the Star Wars franchise at EA, saying, "It's a privilege to have the opportunity to contribute to the Star Wars universe, after it's had such a formative influence on my life."

Amy Hennig was the head writer and creative director of the Uncharted series at Naughty Dog, and will be the creative director on the new Star Wars game.

Visceral Games is best-known for their Dead Space series. If their Star Wars game has anywhere near the quality of their first Dead Space game, we should be in for a treat. Dead Space is fantastic. One of the best games from the last generation.
Title: Re: Visceral's unannounced Star Wars game
Post by: Jesse James on April 3, 2014, 10:48 PM
I don't know much about Dead Space, but you have me intrigued now. 
Title: Re: Visceral's unannounced Star Wars game
Post by: Matt on April 3, 2014, 10:59 PM
It's really good. Think Resident Evil 4-meets-Alien good. I just played through it a couple more times after first playing it a few years ago. I've got the sequel, which is also supposed to be pretty good, but haven't started it yet. There's a third one that I've heard is not so good, so I'll probably stay away from that one.



P.S. Good.