Ahh, . What a beautiful name for a game and/or experience that we know so little about. Over the last year, EA and Maxis have been teasing the future of , with a handful of updates revealing the existence of the game known as .
Initially, reports around this title indicated it would be a successor to , potentially titled , and it would expand the franchise’s gameplay in mind-blowing new fashion. But as we now know, this isn’t the case at all. While EA and Maxis have remained fairly vague on what exactly is, there are at least some tidbits we know for sure.
Here’s everything confirmed about the game so far. Is secretly ? Let’s start with an obvious one. No, is not .
This has been definitively answered by EA and Maxis in with . The team has stated will be a “complementary experience to all things” in , and it will exist alongside current and upcoming projects, including . “It’s a complementary experience to all the things – it’s not a linear experience,” Kate Gorman Revelli, franchise vice president and general manager said.
“There’s a lot we’ll be seeing in the playtest, but the core piece to know what is – we’re really looking at a way to make playable together.” Based on Gorman Revelli’s interview, there is really only one thing we know for sure about , which is..
. will be a multiplayer experience Per Gorman Revelli’s comments, actually has a focus on allowing players of to connect in an online space. “If you want to play that kind of .