Star Wars: Zero Firm will function a assorted roster of characters as a part of the principle squad, together with a Mandalorian, Jedi Padawan, and an astromech droid–but for the principle protagonist of Hawks, gamers will likely be free to customise that operative. Chatting with GameSpot, Bit Reactor inventive director Greg Foertsch revealed that gamers could have a choice of choices to assist fine-tune the look of Hawks, starting from gender and voice via to their species within the Star Wars galaxy.
“You’ll be able to reside via that character nonetheless you need,” Foertsch stated. “If you wish to change the species, you may. If you wish to change their voice, you may.”
The driving theme behind Hawks will likely be their origin story as a former Republic officer and the way they’re compelled to assemble a motley crew to tackle a harmful adversary whereas the Clone Wars rage on within the background. Whereas Hawks has been designed to have simply sufficient of a character for gamers to imprint themselves on, Zero Company’s roster of “authored characters” will all have their very own distinct backstories and personalities that gamers will uncover as they progress via the sport. Considered one of these allies is Inform, a Jedi Padawan on a quest to complete her fallen grasp’s ultimate mission, and there’ll even be some friction between the remainder of the crew as a result of pure rivalries and animosity.
Apparently, gamers will have the ability to strengthen the bonds between these operatives, leading to highly effective synergy abilities that may assist flip the tide of battle. “With the authored characters, I believe one thing that the group at Bit Reactor has accomplished a extremely nice job of is type of weaving within the totally different views that you’d anticipate them to have on the galaxy and the Clone Wars, with this particular story and this adversary that your organization goes up towards,” LucasFilm Video games inventive govt Kelsey Sharpe added.
“It is like a little bit little bit of intrigue–the extra about Star Wars–but additionally if you do not know Star Wars, simply from watching that trailer you form of see how they bounce off of one another and also you go, ‘Oh, this is not the enjoyable occasions gang that I assumed they had been,’ proper?”
For extra on Star Wars: Zero Firm, you may try the reveal trailer from Star Wars Celebration Japan and skim up on how the builders behind it need to create an approachable entry within the ways style.