Star Wars: Zero Firm will function a different roster of characters as a part of the primary squad, together with a Mandalorian, Jedi Padawan, and an astromech droid–but for the primary protagonist of Hawks, gamers can be free to customise that operative. Talking to GameSpot, Bit Reactor inventive director Greg Foertsch revealed that gamers could have a collection of choices to assist fine-tune the look of Hawks, starting from gender and voice by means of to their species within the Star Wars galaxy.
“You may reside by means of that character nevertheless you need,” Foertsch mentioned. “If you wish to change the species, you possibly can. If you wish to change their voice, you possibly can.”
The driving theme behind Hawks can 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 Firm’s roster of “authored characters” will all have their very own distinct backstories and personalities that gamers will uncover as they progress by means of the sport. One among these allies is Inform, a Jedi Padawan on a quest to complete her fallen grasp’s last mission, and there’ll even be some friction between the remainder of the crew attributable to pure rivalries and animosity.
Apparently, gamers will have the ability to strengthen the bonds between these operatives, leading to highly effective synergy expertise that may assist flip the tide of battle. “With the authored characters, I believe one thing that the group at Bit Reactor has executed a very nice job of is form of weaving within the completely 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 somewhat little bit of intrigue–the extra about Star Wars–but additionally if you do not know Star Wars, simply from watching that trailer you type of see how they bounce off of one another and also you go, ‘Oh, this is not the enjoyable instances gang that I believed they have been,’ proper?”
For extra on Star Wars: Zero Firm, you possibly can try the reveal trailer from Star Wars Celebration Japan and browse up on how the builders behind it need to create an approachable entry within the techniques style.