After Ubisoft tried its hand at a Star Wars recreation with 2024’s Outlaws, EA is again with one other single-player recreation, this time from developer Bit Reactor and produced by Star Wars Jedi studio Respawn Leisure. It’s referred to as Star Wars: Zero Company, and in the event you’ve been wanting the franchise to ship a turn-based techniques recreation, this may be it.
Not like the latest Jedi video games or Star Wars Squadrons, which had been set throughout and after the Authentic Trilogy, Zero Firm is about throughout the Clone Wars. Due to this weekend’s Star Wars Celebration panel that includes Bit Reactor, Respawn Leisure, and Lucasfilm Video games, we all know much more particulars of what to anticipate. In actual fact, right here’s a trailer.
“At Lucasfilm Video games, we’re large techniques followers and we have now needed to make a recreation like this for a very long time,” Douglas Reilly, GM & VP, Lucasfilm Video games, mentioned. “One of the best techniques video games are all about significant decisions, and we’re assured we have now chosen the proper squad in Bit Reactor to ship a compelling and modern title that’s genuine to Star Wars.”
Gamers will tackle the function of Hawks, the customizable chief of Zero Firm (that means, sure, they will look nevertheless you need them to look), an elite outfit put collectively throughout the Clone Wars to do covert missions. Stated staff features a trusty mech, a Jedi padawan named Telia Tria, an Umbaran sharpshooter named Lucco Bronk, a Clone Trooper named Trick, and a Mandalorian named Klive. [Be aware: Spellings will not be last as we acquired them from audio.) However, you don’t have to make use of them.
You’re additionally in a position to create and customise your individual staff of characters too. So, if you need a full staff of simply astromech droids, you are able to do that. Much like the latest XCOM video games from Firaxis—a number of amongst that staff left to begin Bit Reactor—you’ll management the squad members and use their varied skills in tactical, grid-based fight. The staff’s exploits could have them waging a shadow warfare throughout the galaxy.
The Clone Wars was picked because the period for the sport as a result of, in contrast to many different eras in Star Wars, it’s a couple of battle between comparatively equally sized forces: the Jedi/Clones and the Separatists. Gamers will make selections all through which have main, at occasions, everlasting penalties and the map is, apparently, the largest in a Star Wars recreation so far. There’s additionally a bond system that, relying on which characters you employ, will create new branches of the sport. No two playthroughs will probably be alike.
Additionally of be aware, the music will probably be by Gordy Habb, who recreation followers know from his work on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor. And, sure, there will probably be cameos.
Star Wars: Zero Firm deploys in 2026 on PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Collection X|S.
Further reporting by Germain Lussier.
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