On September 15, in Makuhari Messe, Chiba ken, Japan, ‘Tokyo Game Show 2016’ was opened.

Celebrating the 20th anniversary this year, ‘Tokyo Game Show 2016,’ the show that represents Japan, is co-hosted by Computer Entertainment Supplier’s Association (CESA) and Nikkei BP, and specially cooperated with DWANGO. The event is organized into a business-day on September 15 and 16, when only game business people and mass communication officials can enter, and a public-day on September 17 and 18, when all the visitors can enter.

At New Otani Hotel near the event hall, Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia (SIEJA) progressed a presentation session presenting a new title. In this session, it introduced about the main titles published by SIE affiliated developers and major publishers and explained the features of the games.

On the first day of event, ‘Titanfall 2’ session, which is a shooter game developed by Respawn Games and released from EA, was prepared. Joel Emslie and Dusty Welch, Art Director and COO of Respawn Games, respectively, were presenters for the session.


‘Titanfall 2’ deals with the story after the resistance fighters achieve a victory in the battle between IMC and resistance fighters in the original work. Its feature is that, unlike the original work which was mainly played in multiplay, a single story mission is added so that a player can experience rich story.

The story mission starts with an emergency landing while the ship of the resistance fighters looking for IMC remnants is heading for a secret planet called Typhoon. A player can experience various stories that a normal soldier Jack Cooper goes through when he succeeded his mentor, Titan Fighter, as a leader after his dead, and took titan called BT-7274.

Of course, as Jack Cooper was a soldier, he could participate in battle and attack titans without taking titan, but facing titans barehanded is very dangerous choice. As a user’s mission is to explore Typhoon planet and safely escape to outside the planet, the user’s choice might largely influence on the mission progress.

About the concept of the game’s background, Typhoon planet, Emslie said, “The game director wanted a beautiful and exotic space that could be seen on postcards rather than war-ravaged city.” And, he emphasized, “We sought distinction by scene with strong sense of color and nature. For that, various environments and climates are implemented, and users will fall in love with different atmosphere from the original work.”



About multiplay, after getting the users’ feedbacks through the original work and beta test, the balance is modified and more contents are added. Each of newly appeared 6 types of titans have their good and bad points, and they form a relationship of fighting each other. About the connectivity to story mission, since titans which appear in story mission as enemies will also appear in multiplay, a user will learn how to fight through story missions. But, unique abilities of titans which appear on story mission are deemed unfit for multiplay, so they are excluded.

The release date of ‘Titanfall 2’ is planned to be October 28, and updates or added contents will be presented in the same way of DLC. Currently, the update team in Respawn Games is worked in two types; one takes DLC, and the other takes live update and patch.

Emslie said, “Through a story mission that is newly presented in this work, a player would enjoy different fun from the original work.” And, “Please join in the adventure story of the main character Jack Cooper and BT-7274.”





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