E3 2016: 10 Things We Learned From Titanfall 2's Single Player Trailer

by Ewan Paterson

1. Your Faithful Mech May Not Make It Through The Story

Titanfall 2 Armless Mech
Respawn

This shot was fairly telling, and signifies the morose peak of the trailer in what could potentially be a huge zinger of a spoiler.

As you can see above, poor BT has lost an arm and is stumbling around with Cooper, who is also clearly injured. By all respects they could still make it out of this one alive (and they probably will, seeing as how I can't think of many games that killed off a main character so early on into a trilogy), but that won't put a halt to speculation in this instance. It's a shot that features both our main characters maimed and fatigued, which is never a good sign in military shooters, even if this particular one takes place in the sci-fi genre.

Titanfall has the potential to be one of the medium's foremost FPS titles, and given its unique premise, its wonderful lore and exemplary gameplay, the second entry in the franchise could easily stand as one of the best games of the year. Sure, it's got a healthy host of competition to go up against, including the equally impressive Battlefield 1, but there's no denying that as each day passes Titanfall is looking more and more like a formidable franchise. EA certainly seems to think so, and whether you like them or not, they've rarely been wrong about their best-sellers.

What I find most encouraging about Respawn's sequel is that they actually haven't abandoned single player, which is even more commendable considering the first Titanfall pretty much kickstarted the current trend of FPS's foregoing a single-player component altogether.

If they can vindicate having one in their title, in a manner that truly compliments the gameplay and rigour of their series, then I can only hope that other studios follow suit. If Titanfall can rectify this one trend, I'll be eternally grateful.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.