Även om Titanfall-spelen aldrig blev några stora kommersiella succéer, blev de mycket omtyckta bland de som ändå gav dem chansen, detta av den enkla anledningen att de var fantastiska. Idag lever världen vidare i Apex Legends, men Titanfall-serien verkar död.
Nu avslöjas dock att det tidigare fanns en tredje Titanfall-titel under utveckling. Insider Gaming har pratat med den före detta Respawn Entertainment-utvecklaren Mohammad Alavi, som hävdar att de arbetade på Titanfall 3 i tio månader, innan det lades ner:
"You want to hear a crazy cut story? Titanfall 3... Titanfall 2, y'know, came out, did what it did, and we were like, "Okay, we're gonna make Titanfall 3," and we worked on Titanfall 3 for... ten months, right? In earnest, right? I mean, we had, like, new tech for it, we had multiple missions going, we had a first playable, which was like, on par to be just as good if not better than whatever we had before, right? But I'll make this clear—incrementally better, it wasn't revolutionary. And that's the kicker, right?"
Ironiskt nog verkar det som om Apex Legends var anledningen till att Titanfall 3 slopades, eftersom Battle Royale-spel var på topp, och Respawn verkligen ville haka på fenomenet:
"And at the time, I had just literally become [the] narrative lead designer on Titanfall 3, I had just pitched the... story, the whole game, that me and Manny had come up with, made this big presentation and then we went off a break and went back from break, and we talked about it, and we were like, "Yeah, we need to pivot. And we need to go make this game." 'Cause we literally canceled Titanfall 3 ourselves 'cause we were like, "We can make this game, and it's going to be Titanfall 2 plus a little bit better, or we can make this thing, which is clearly amazing." And don't get me wrong, I will always miss having another Titanfall, y'know what I mean? I love that game, Titanfall 2, like I said, is my most crowing achievement, but it was the right call. That is a crazy cut. Such a crazy cut that EA didn't even know about it for another six months!"
Vi vet att många av er fortfarande har stora förhoppningar om ett nytt Titanfall-äventyr i framtiden, och Respawn har tidigare sagt att de inte utesluter det - men chanserna verkar tyvärr små inom överskådlig framtid.
