Star Wars: Battlefront 3 will be EA’s Holiday Gift to Gamers This Year!

The upcoming action video game “Star Wars: Battlefront” will be game developer EA Digitial Illusion CE’s holiday gift to gamers this year as the game will officially be released on Xbox One, the PlayStation 4, and the PC in December 2015.

The game is actually the third in a series of similarly-titled video games that is why it is being referred to by gamers as “Star Wars: Battlefront 3.” In reality however, the game’s official title is “Star Wars: Battlefront” and it is technically different from the first two video games.

The first two were third and first-person video games based on the battles in the Star Wars film series. Both were developed by Pandemic Studios.

The first video game “Star Wars: Battlefront” was released on September 21, 2004 on PlayStation 2, the Xbox, and the PC. The second, titled “Star Wars: Battlefront II” was released on November 1, 2005 to the Xbox, the PlayStation 2, the PlayStation Portable and the PC.

Also officially among developers, the upcoming video game release is known as “Star Wars: Battlefront (2015 video game) to distinguish it from the first game developed by Pandemic.

Simultaneous release with the film

“Star Wars: Battlefront 3” website reports that the original release date for the video game was supposed to be this coming summer of 2015 but EA decided to move it to December 2015 so that it will be simultaneous with the release of “Star Wars 7: The Force Awakens.”

The seventh installment to the Star Wars movie saga is slated to hit theaters on December 18, 2015 and having the release date of the video game the same as the opening day on movies will do “Star Wars: Battlefront 3” good not only in terms of promotions but also in sales.

EA chief executive officer Andrew Wilson made the official announcement on the release date of “Star Wars: Battleground 3” as early as October 28, 2014 in a post made on Twitter.

Subsequently, EA chief financial officer Blake Jorgensen confirmed that the video game will be a first-person shooter video game. It is to be EA’s major first-person shooter game for 2015. That is what actually distinguishes it from the first two video games because the previous versions were both a third and first-person shooter video game.

Excited over the game

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The October 2014 announcement of the official release date of “Star Wars: Battleground 3” got a lot of gamers both excited and a bit dismayed since they have to wait more than a year still to finally get their hands on the game.

Some of the gamers also believe that EA should add a third-person mode for the game similar to the first two video games. They think that the third-person mode was one of the key selling points of the first two video games so it should be included too.

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