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After Ubisoft tried its hand at a Star Wars sport with 2024’s Outlaws, EA is again with one other single-player sport, 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 case you’ve been wanting the franchise to ship a turn-based ways sport, this could be it.

In contrast to the current Jedi video games or Star Wars Squadrons, which have been set throughout and after the Unique Trilogy, Zero Firm is ready in the course of 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. Actually, right here’s a trailer.

“At Lucasfilm Video games, we’re large ways followers and we now have wished to make a sport like this for a very long time,” Douglas Reilly, GM & VP, Lucasfilm Video games, mentioned. “The perfect ways video games are all about significant selections, and we’re assured we now have chosen the best squad in Bit Reactor to ship a compelling and modern title that’s genuine to Star Wars.”

Gamers will tackle the position of Hawks, the customizable chief of Zero Firm (which means, sure, they will look nonetheless you need them to look), an elite outfit put collectively in the course of the Clone Wars to do covert missions. Mentioned crew 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. [Note: Spellings are not final as we got them from audio.) But, you don’t have to use them.

You are also able to create and customize your own team of characters too. So, if you want a full team of just astromech droids, you can do that. Similar to the recent XCOM games from Firaxis—several among that team left to start Bit Reactor—you’ll control the squad members and use their various abilities in tactical, grid-based combat. The team’s exploits will have them waging a shadow war across the galaxy.

The Clone Wars was picked as the era for the game because, unlike many other eras in Star Wars, it’s about a battle between relatively similarly sized forces: the Jedi/Clones and the Separatists. Players will make decisions throughout that have major, at times, permanent consequences and the map is, apparently, the biggest in a Star Wars game to date. There’s also a bond system that, depending on which characters you use, will create new branches of the game. No two playthroughs will be alike.

Also of note, the music will be by Gordy Habb, who game fans know from his work on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor. And, yes, there will be cameos.

Star Wars: Zero Company deploys in 2026 on PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Series X|S.

Additional reporting by Germain Lussier.

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