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 known as Star Wars: Zero Firm, and if you happen to’ve been wanting the franchise to ship a turn-based ways recreation, this may be it.
In contrast to the latest Jedi video games or Star Wars Squadrons, which had been set throughout and after the Unique Trilogy, Zero Firm is about throughout the Clone Wars. Because of 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.
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 throughout the Clone Wars to do covert missions. Mentioned workforce features a trusty mech, a Jedi padawan named Telria, an Umbaran sharpshooter named Luco, 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.
“At Lucasfilm Games, we’re huge tactics fans and we have wanted to make a game like this for a long time,” Douglas Reilly, GM & VP, Lucasfilm Games, said. “The best tactics games are all about meaningful choices, and we’re confident we have chosen the right squad in Bit Reactor to deliver a compelling and innovative title that is authentic to Star Wars.”
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.
Star Wars: Zero Company deploys [date/window] on PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Sequence X|S in 2026.
Extra reporting by Germain Lussier.
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