EA’s cancelled Titanfall recreation was truly an Apex Legends marketing campaign — report

EA’s lately cancelled mission, Titanfall Legends, was supposedly a single-player marketing campaign for Apex Legends, which might act as an anchor for the sport and extra modes, very similar to Name of Obligation.

Earlier this week, Bloomberg reported that EA had cancelled a single-player recreation referred to as Titanfall Legends, and whereas preliminary ideas went in the direction of a brand new Titanfall recreation, it is now been stated that it was a single-player recreation mode for the most effective free Xbox video games, Apex Legends.

Apex Legends is reportedly receiving a group deathmatch mode quickly

Throughout a current dwell stream (thanks, VGC), Big Bomb’s Jeff Grubb claimed that Titanfall Legends was geared toward giving Respawn’s battle royale recreation, Apex Legends, a linked single-player marketing campaign in the identical means as Name of Duy: Trendy Warfare II and Name of Obligation: Warzone 2.0 work. Apparently, it was an try at giving Apex Legends an “expanded universe.” In line with Grubb, Titanfall Legends would have seen Rampart uncover the chassis of Titanfall 2’s BT, who’s now a “very particular Titan” after interacting with the ‘Misplaced Arc’ — a tool able to finding all the Titan elements. We might have performed as Apex Legends’ Brisk and met with different Legends all through the marketing campaign to borrow their powers, connecting the story with the multiplayer parts.

Grubb stated that EA’s strapline for the sport was “John Wick meets Tony Hawk” and took inspiration from Doom Everlasting, “the place you are all the time aggressive and all the time getting stuff.” Grubb stated: “The pondering there was that extra individuals have performed Apex Legend than have ever heard of Titanfall, in order that they had been actually going to lean into that.”

Whereas a single-player marketing campaign appears to be out of the query, Apex Legends will apparently obtain a group deathmatch mode in a few weeks’ time. How a lot additional Respawn decides to go together with new content material is at present unsure however the prospect of a brand new multiplayer mode is intriguing.

What do you make of this information? Would you may have appreciated an opportunity to play an Apex Legends marketing campaign? Drop a remark beneath and tell us!