Star Wars Zero Firm seems to be like XCOM with Jedi and droids

EA and Lucasfilm shared first have a look at Star Wars Zero Company, a brand new single-player technique recreation set within the Star Wars universe, at Star Wars Celebration in Japan. The sport was originally announced in 2022 as considered one of three new Star Wars titles being developed or co-developed by Respawn Leisure, the studio behind Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor, together with a brand new first individual shooter and one other entry within the Jedi collection. There is not a agency launch date but, however Star Wars Zero Firm will be accessible on PC, Xbox Collection X/S and PlayStation 5 in 2026.

“In Star Wars Zero Firm, gamers will step into the sneakers of Hawks, a former Republic officer, to command an elite squad of crafty operatives by a gritty and genuine story set within the twilight of the Clone Wars,” in line with a press launch revealed alongside the announcement trailer.

Star Wars Zero Firm was born out of a collaboration between Respawn and a brand new studio known as Bit Reactor. The inspiration the sport clearly attracts from XCOM: Enemy Unknown and different Firaxis technique video games did not occur accidentally. Bit Reactor’s workers contains some former Firaxis’ staff, and the founder and inventive director of Bit Reactor, Greg Foertsch, was a senior artwork director on XCOM: Enemy Unknown and XCOM 2.

“Our imaginative and prescient for Star Wars Zero Firm is grounded in gameplay design pillars that weave within the immersive Star Wars galaxy with participating turn-based techniques gameplay,” Foertsch stated in a press release. “It’s our goal to ship a recreation with an unique Star Wars story from the Clone Wars period that has significant outcomes from participant selections, and deep turn-based tactical fight with an approachable and cinematic presentation.”

Putting some form of stability between the mass enchantment of Star Wars and the area of interest expectations of technique and techniques followers has all the time been the objective of Zero Firm. In an interview with PC Gamer in 2024, Foertsch and Bit Reactor’s lead animator Hector Antunez (one other XCOM alum) prompt that they needed their Star Wars recreation to have the cinematic storytelling of Respawn’s video games with out lacking out on a satisfying technique expertise. “I do not suppose that complexity equals depth,” Foertsch stated, “and I feel that that is actually what we’re targeted on. Differentiating that nuance between these two issues.”