Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order: Watch the trailer, game reveal live now
The game Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is getting a big reveal Saturday during Star Wars Celebration Chicago.
So far, we don't know much about the game, under development by Titanfall and Apex Legends developer Respawn Entertainment. That's changing now that the panel is live on the EA Star Wars Twitch account. We've embedded the stream at the top of this story.
A trailer has hit, as has news that actor Cameron Monaghan of Shameless and Gotham will star in the game as a Padawan named Cal who finds himself in mortal danger immediately after the events of Star Wars Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith. The new teaser shows his character on the run, trusting no one.
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Respawn boss Vince Zampella confirmed Saturday that the game will be a single-player story game with no multiplayer function or microtransactions.
The game's writer, Chris Avellone, told VG247 that the game's story is "important to Respawn" and he hopes the game's full writing team is acknowledged during Saturday's panel.
"I think they do a good job of introducing various narrative layers into their games already, but they think story is an important part of what they perceive to be a Star Wars game," Avellone said.
The announcement at Star Wars Celebration Chicago of no multiplayer function or microtransactions, along with the confirmation of a larger focus on story, is a big reversal from the fiasco Star Wars Battlefront II became in 2017. Though its multiplayer and new single-player mode were highly touted at that year's Star Wars Celebration in Orlando, the game itself got a mixed reception for its lootbox-style progression system at launch. Battlefront II since has been updated several times, changing its progression system while adding new Star Wars characters.
This story originally published at 10:37 a.m. PT, and we'll update it as more details emerge about Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
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