Star Wars: Zero Company Creators Talk Canon, Character Customization and More | IGN Live 2026

Fresh disconnected the debut of the large Official Story Trailer (as seen below), the Force was felt astatine IGN Live Sunday with a sheet for Star Wars: Zero Company featuring Director Greg Foertsch and Lead Designer James Brawley.

The upcoming single-player turn-based tactics crippled is acceptable successful the twilight of the Clone Wars and Foertsch elaborated however you play against (and within) the backdrop of the Clone Wars, not truthful overmuch straight immersed successful them. "There's truthful galore things going on. Lots of antithetic backroom dealing, tons of authorities astatine play. While the Clone Wars is happening, there's this different warfare happening beneath the war."

Zero Company contains XCOM-style permadeath for characters, adjacent though it is considered a canonical story. Said Foertsch, "All the worldly that happens successful the middle, your acquisition volition beryllium antithetic from mine, but successful the extremity wherever it each wraps up, that's wherever it funnels into the Star Wars canon," adjacent arsenic determination mightiness beryllium variations connected who lives and dies astir you on the way.

Brawley noted that portion "the tactical missions themselves are the breadstuff and food of a batch of the gameplay and wherever each disconnected the combat happens," helium was besides excited for players to acquisition The Den. As helium described it, The Den is "a spot wherever you and your operators are operating betwixt missions. You'll person the accidental to not lone speech to the antithetic members of the squad and spot however they're doing and if they're hoping you'll assistance them instrumentality attraction of something, but besides instrumentality attraction of a batch of the absorption tasks. You'll beryllium capable to bargain items from the achromatic market. You tin take to modify your character's load outs - what weapons and inferior items they're utilizing and past customize and level up their skills arsenic you take to."

Following that, you past determination to the Galaxy map, which is wherever "you'll nonstop your guys retired connected non-combat missions that assistance them stitchery quality and caller resources."

At the decision of those tasks, the rhythm concludes, with Brawley explaining that's erstwhile you "accept and prime a mission, take your squad members, and spot the series wherever you depart the Den."

As for the squad you assemble, Brawley noted that Star Wars: Zero Company contains "A formed of bespoke characters but the subordinate tin besides make arsenic galore customized characters arsenic they privation and they tin execute the aforesaid level of combat interactions arsenic the different characters."

Teamwork is integral due to the fact that the crippled contains what Brawley calls the Bond System, "where actions and combat tin amended relationships betwixt 2 of the characters connected the team. That's truly the backbone of however our characters progress. As the relationships develop, they summation much and much absorption points to walk connected leveling up their skills."

In the game, you play arsenic erstwhile Republic bureau Hawks, whose default is simply a quality male, but Foertsch noted, "Hawks tin beryllium thing you privation Hawks to be. You tin marque Hawks a Twi'lek oregon a Zabrak, a male, a female... It should beryllium nevertheless you privation to explicit yourself arsenic a player"

The trailer revealed Anakin Skywalker volition amusement up successful the game, but it besides showed a glimpse of an chartless fig holding a reddish lightsaber. Given we cognize Zero Company is acceptable adjacent the extremity of the Clone Wars, Foertsch and Brawley were asked whether Anakin would beryllium considered bully oregon possibly much Dark Sided already - oregon possibly you conscionable him some earlier and after? Replied Foertsch, "You'll person to play it to find out!"

Star Wars: Zero Company volition beryllium disposable connected PC, PlayStation 5 (PS5), and Xbox Series X/S connected August 27.

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