Star Wars Battlefront: 8 Perfect Ways To Tie Into Episode VII

If you believe the rumours they've been linked since the start.

by Ewan Paterson

Star Wars fans certainly have a lot to look forward to this year; not only is the much-anticipated Episode VII coming to theatres in December, but game-wise the long-awaited Battlefront reboot is too, and already there's much speculation as to how the two releases may intersect. Recent rumours seemed to suggest that Battlefront's storyline will directly influence - and even overlap with - the events of The Force Awakens, but just how they will connect is still a mystery. With the entirety of the Star Wars franchise now open to be explored by the developers at DICE, countless opportunities are presented to intertwine the game with JJ. Abrams' first foray into a galaxy far, far away. Pandemic's Battlefront II had a campaign bolted onto the main experience, and despite being rather rudimentary in scale, it more than delivered - giving players the opportunity of experiencing the rise of the Galactic Empire through the eyes of the Clones that created it. One mission even managed to give an emotional narrative, showing the Clone assault on the Jedi Temple in Coruscant which directly tied-in with the then newly released, Revenge of the Sith. The new Battlefront then, has a lot to live up to. Considering the fact that the expanded universe of old is now dead and buried, the TPS reboot has a lot of ground to traverse to link the gaps between episodes VI and VII. Multiplayer will undoubtedly be the main event, but the campaign could really be worth it if it makes some awesome narrative additions to the Star Wars canon.

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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.