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DICE will undoubtedly do an extremely professional job. In a reverential E3 teaser trailer last year , the Stockholm-based developers outlined their ambition to "stay as true to the films as possible", scanning original models and props from the extensive Lucas Cultural Arts Museum archive. They also yomped to key filming locations, from the (relatively) nearby Hardangerjøkulen glacier in Norway where tauntauns once roamed to the lush Redwood forests of northern California that stood in for the moon of Endor.
DICE's stated aim was not just to accurately recreate the look of these environments - and you'd hope their proprietary Frostbite 3 engine would make a decent job of Hoth - but to capture "the emotions they invoke" as well. (Perhaps somewhere there exists an early cut of the teaser with a design lead standing in front of a green background yelling "so here I am in Naboo!")
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