Titanfall 2 will feature a single-player campaign, as well as the multiplayer element that characterised the first game. This most interesting change of pace for the series was confirmed by lead writer Jesse Stern in a recent interview.
"So we are doing our best to deliver a vision of grand global colonial warfare retelling the story of the American Revolution and the American Civil War in space. We imagined the next generation of immigrants moving out to the new frontier of an inhabitable planet," Stern told Forbes.
"Rather than taking a traditional sci-fi approach to that we wanted to look at how that would happen practically, what the ships would look like and with machines that were designed for excavation and construction , demolition and working the land, and what happens when they are turned into instruments of war.
"What inspires us is the junction of technological advancement with the inevitability of conflict and war and what the next war might look like. In Titanfall 2 there will be a lot of [scenes] where science meets magic, but keeping it grounded and dirty and human and real."
Respawn decided to focus solely on multiplayer with 2014's Xbox-exclusive first game, with the narrative delivered around a structured set of online games. However, it now appears as though the studio has decided to change things up for the sequel.
The studio is also looking into making a TV series to drop alongside the game at launch. Stern acknowledged that the cost of doing such a series could be large and that TV plans have not yet been set in stone.
Stern has pedigree when it comes to writing both action-shooters and television series, after he co-wrote Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and also worked on CBS TV crime series NCIS.
Titanfall 2 is expected to launch launch sometime between April of this year and March 2017, and this time around it will not be an Xbox One exclusive.