14 DAY TRIAL // Developer Respawn Entertainment, publisher Electronic Arts and special effects group Playfight seem to be working on a batch of live action content linked to the coming Titanfall, which will apparently offer gamers an insight into the world of the shooter.
A teaser site called Your Titan Is Ready is up, but it does not offer any sort of clear information on the project or on exactly how it will be connected to the game.
Playfight is best known for having worked with Activision in order to create Operation Kingfish for Call of Duty and has experience working with developers to create interesting live action content linked to the big franchises.
Dusty Welch, one of the developers working on Titanfall at Respawn, says, “We wanted to partner with Playfight, who has a history of delivering movies that meld gameplay, live action and stellar CG into truly entertaining media, for Titanfall. What this collaboration brings is yet to unfold.”
Titanfall is set to be launched on March 11 in North America on the Xbox One home console and on the PC and on March 13 in Europe.
Gamers who want to play the shooter on the Xbox 360 will have to wait for another two weeks in order to experience the same title.
Developer Respawn Entertainment and publisher Electronic Arts have already launched another big promotional effort for the game which uses classic titles, like Asteroids and Missile Command, that have been reimagined using a giant mech.
A live action series build around Titanfall could draw in a lot of gamers, especially if it manages to add depth to the universe of the game, which at the moment feels a little bare.
The actual game is focused on a 6 versus 6 multiplayer mode, which involved the use of mechs and a number of combatants controlled by the Artificial Intelligence.
Each map will contain some narrative elements, but there is no single-player story to tie them all together.
If Titanfall is successful, then it would be really easy for the companies that have created it to branch out into other types of content, ranging from books to graphic novel and toys based on the mech.
Respawn Entertainment has already said that it has no problem with gamers who are already playing the game, as long as they obtained their copies via legitimate means, and the company has already deployed a major 840 MB patch for the shooter.