Star Wars Goes Back to Strategy Games With The Trailer for Zero Company

After Ubisoft tried its manus astatine a Star Wars game with 2024’s Outlaws, EA is backmost with different single-player game, this clip from developer Bit Reactor and produced by Star Wars Jedi studio Respawn Entertainment. It’s called Star Wars: Zero Company, and if you’ve been wanting the franchise to present a turn-based tactics game, this mightiness beryllium it.

Unlike the recent Jedi games or Star Wars Squadrons, which were acceptable during and aft the Original Trilogy, Zero Company is acceptable during the Clone Wars. Thanks to this weekend’s Star Wars Celebration sheet featuring Bit Reactor, Respawn Entertainment, and Lucasfilm Games, we cognize adjacent much details of what to expect. In fact, here’s a trailer.

Players volition instrumentality connected the relation of Hawks, the customizable person of Zero Company (meaning, yes, they tin look nevertheless you privation them to look), an elite outfit enactment unneurotic during the Clone Wars to bash covert missions. Said squad includes 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 last arsenic we got them from audio.) But, you don’t person to usage them.

You are besides capable to make and customize your ain squad of characters too. So, if you privation a afloat squad of conscionable astromech droids, you tin bash that. Similar to the caller XCOM games from Firaxis—several among that squad near to commencement Bit Reactor—you’ll power the squad members and usage their assorted abilities successful tactical, grid-based combat. The team’s exploits volition person them waging a shadiness warfare crossed the galaxy.

The Clone Wars was picked arsenic the epoch for the crippled because, dissimilar galore different eras successful Star Wars, it’s astir a conflict betwixt comparatively likewise sized forces: the Jedi/Clones and the Separatists. Players volition marque decisions passim that person major, astatine times, imperishable consequences and the representation is, apparently, the biggest successful a Star Wars crippled to date.

“At Lucasfilm Games, we’re immense tactics fans and we person wanted to marque a crippled similar this for a agelong time,” Douglas Reilly, GM & VP, Lucasfilm Games, said. “The champion tactics games are each astir meaningful choices, and we’re assured we person chosen the close squad successful Bit Reactor to present a compelling and innovative rubric that is authentic to Star Wars.”

Also of note, the euphony volition beryllium by Gordy Habb, who crippled fans cognize from his enactment connected Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor. 

Star Wars: Zero Company deploys [date/window] connected PlayStation 5, PC, and Xbox Series X|S successful 2026.

Additional reporting by Germain Lussier.

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