Star Wars Battlefront II

"Next year we'll see Star Wars Battlefront back with bigger and better worlds, because we now have the new movies to work off [and] not just the historical movies that we used before."

- Blake Jorgensen, Electronic Arts chief financial officer

Star Wars Battlefront II will be released in 2017 by Electronic Arts. It is a sequel to 2015's Star Wars Battlefront. The sequel will include worlds depicted in the new Star Wars films as well as content from the original and prequel trilogies.

On April 11, 2017 a teaser trailer was leaked giving confirmation that the game would include content from all three main Star Wars eras, a single player campaign, and heroes such as Kylo Ren, Rey, Darth Maul, and Yoda.

Story
The storyline predominantly follows Iden Versio, former leader of the Imperial Special Forces Inferno Squadron. Upon witnessing destruction of the Death Star II, Versio and her troops set out to avenge The Emperor, and kill those responsible, namely, Luke Skywalker. The story will span thirty years, Starting near the end of the Galactic Civil War and ending at the destruction of Starkiller Base.

There will be one mission, where Luke Skywalker is playable.

Gameplay
The game will offer a full space combat mode. A class system will feature, with each class having a shared progression system, but with equipment differing depending on faction.

Development
The game's development was revealed in an interview with an EA executive in 2016. More information, including its development by DICE and Motive Studios, was revealed during EA's Livestream during E3 2016.

The game's development is a collaboration between DICE, who are developing the multiplayer, Motive Studios, who are developing the single player mode, and Criterion Software, who are developing the vehicle and flight controls.

The game will include content from all three film trilogies.

EA premiered the trailer for it at their panel at 2017's Celebration Orlando.

A goal of the story is to humanize the Empire in ways that haven't been seen before.