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 shall be free to customise that operative. Talking to GameSpot, Bit Reactor artistic 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 way of to their species within the Star Wars galaxy.
“You’ll be able to stay by way of that character nevertheless you need,” Foertsch stated. “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 shall 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 persona 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 way of the sport. Certainly one of these allies is Inform, a Jedi Padawan on a quest to complete her fallen grasp’s closing mission, and there’ll even be some friction between the remainder of the crew as a result of pure rivalries and animosity.
Curiously, gamers will be capable of 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 achieved a very nice job of is kind 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 artistic govt Kelsey Sharpe added.
“It is like somewhat little bit of intrigue–the extra you recognize 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 occasions gang that I assumed they had been,’ proper?”
For extra on Star Wars: Zero Firm, you possibly can take a look at the reveal trailer from Star Wars Celebration Japan and skim up on how the builders behind it need to create an approachable entry within the ways style.
