Very, very little are those who have managed to understand the authentic essence of Star Wars – and what their fans expect from it – after the beginning of the Disney era. And it is not so much a matter of wear of the brand, but of retaining what makes that very distant galaxy special. Respawn achieved it in video games with the two deliveries of Star Wars Jedi and now returns to the load with a very different bet, but not less interesting: Star Wars Zero Company.
Starting from the most basic, the game is being developed by the independent developer Bit Reactor together with Respawn itself and will be published by Electronic Arts, along with Lucasfilm Games herself. A very curious mixture of influences. However, the most essential is that Star Wars Zero Company It is, according to its creators, a tactical game by shifts for PC and consoles and designed for a single player. Or, so that we understand each other better, of an Xcom set in the Galaxies War.
The project itself was announced, without a definitive title, at the end of January 2022 as part of one of the three new games in which Respawn would continue to create its own corner in the new Disney Canon. The other two were Star Wars Jedi: Survivor released in 2023 and an FPS under the direction of Peter Hirschmann.
From here, the interesting thing about Bit Reactor is that, although as a study they were established only a little before the announcement, many of its developers are ancient developers of the XCOM saga itself, so we can expect results at the forefront of the type of experience that they themselves coined and whose first filtered images we could already see through the dossier of one of the developers (via via Mp1st) At the end of March.
According to these images, the project was being developed under the name of “Star Wars Bruno” and, judging by the images, we can see clone soldiers that make us presuppose that it is a stage prior to the galactic empire, along with characters consolidated in the current Lore, such as the mandalorian Bo Katan, which debuted in the fourth season of Star Wars: The Clone Wars More than ten years ago and has become one of the most interesting additions of this new stage with its jump to the live action in the most recent seasons of The Mandalorian.
That said, it is time to remember once again that since it is unofficial images, the catches can be simple visual references or belonging to a developing version that will not be part of the final game. Although what we do is a first visual reference with the new protagonists and that you can see in the heading of our text. And that leads us to the final issue: where and when it will be played?
Star Wars Zero Company It is in development for PC, Xbox Series X/S and PS5 and its official presentation will be on April 19, 2025 coinciding with the traditional Star Wars Celebration. While, we trust that there will be a first snack of it, we hope there is GamePlay, details about the story and its characters and, if there is luck, an approximate release date. And be careful, that is not the only thing they have in hand from Lucasfilm: the creator of Uncharted has been working in a galactic adventure and we have not forgotten a Star Wars Eclipse.
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