After an official reveal at Star Wars Celebration Japan, new particulars on Star Wars: Zero Company have been revealed. One of the fascinating issues in regards to the sport is its setting, because the occasions of Zero Company will unfold in the course of the Clone Wars. Whereas the galactic civil warfare has been explored intimately, Zero Company will give attention to the hidden tales of that battle and the covert operations that befell. Thematically, the sport attracts upon Star Wars tales just like the Clone Wars animated collection, Rogue One, and its prequel collection Andor, in addition to traditional World Battle II films just like the Soiled Dozen.
“The Clone Wars gives us a variety of the instruments we want mechanically for the sport, which is nice,” Bit Reactor inventive director Greg Foertsch defined in an interview with GameSpot. “Nevertheless it’s additionally fascinating, we have not seen that sort of zoom degree within the Clone Wars, and so it is a fairly distinctive spot to land that additionally supplied a variety of nice choices for us from a sport design perspective, to inform a extremely nice story with some nice mechanics added to it. That basically opened the door for us to do a variety of issues.”
LucasFilm Video games producers Orion Kellogg and Kelsey Sharpe added that the Clone Wars period allowed for “all kinds of locations in that zone” the place authentic tales may very well be informed. The nuanced storytelling of the Clone Wars was a giant affect on Zero Company, alongside the boots-on-the-ground environment of Rogue One. Movies just like the Soiled Dozen additionally impressed the concept of how the Zero Company squad comes collectively, however as Sharpe famous, the primary Star Wars movie nonetheless stands because the guiding gentle for the sport.
“Even if in case you have a extra grounded tone and also you’re stepping into the shades of grey of the Clone Wars period, there’s at all times hope,” Sharpe mentioned. “There’s at all times the bonds between your allies, there’s at all times the mythmaking. And that is what Star Wars is. That is how we hold issues feeling constant throughout all of the tales we inform.”
Star Wars: Zero Company will launch for PC, PS5, and Xbox Collection X|S in 2026.