Star Wars: Zero Company’s Main Character Is Fully Customizable

Star Wars: Zero Company will function a assorted roster of characters as a part of the principle squad, together with a Mandalorian, Jedi Padawan, and an astromech droid–but for the principle protagonist of Hawks, gamers might be free to customise that operative. Talking to GameSpot, Bit Reactor artistic director Greg Foertsch revealed that gamers can have a collection of choices to assist fine-tune the look of Hawks, starting from gender and voice via to their species within the Star Wars galaxy.

“You possibly can dwell via that character nonetheless 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 might be their origin story as a former Republic officer and the way they’re pressured 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 via the sport. One among these allies is Inform, a Jedi Padawan on a quest to complete her fallen grasp’s remaining mission, and there’ll even be some friction between the remainder of the crew attributable to pure rivalries and animosity.

Curiously, 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 feel one thing that the group at Bit Reactor has carried out a very nice job of is type of weaving within the totally 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 in opposition to,” LucasFilm Video games artistic government Kelsey Sharpe added.

“It is like a little bit 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 sort of see how they bounce off of one another and also you go, ‘Oh, this is not the enjoyable instances gang that I assumed they had 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 wish to create an approachable entry in the tactics genre.