A brand-new story and gameplay trailer for Star Wars Zero Company was shown during Summer Game Fest Live, giving us our first real look at the turn-based-tactics game’s narrative and its cast of original characters. The trailer showcased gameplay for the upcoming Star Wars game as well, including how your choices can shape the roster of your squad.
In a nice surprise, the trailer ends with the reveal that Anakin Skywalker will be in the game as well, likely as a prominent unit that will work alongside the titular Zero Company in certain missions. Narratively, that does make a lot of sense. Anakin was known as a bit of a rebel during the Clone Wars who engaged in unorthodox tactics and led missions that bent or outright broke the rules of engagement, and it sounds like Zero Company was built around values like that.
Star Wars Zero Company is in development at Bit Reactor, and its gameplay style should feel familiar if you’ve played the recent XCOM games. Hawks, the leader of a gun-fire-hire group called Zero Company, must get them to set aside their differences in order to take down a galaxy-killing threat.
The game takes place toward the end of the Clone Wars, right before the events of Revenge of the Sith. As seen in the new trailer, the war has begun to create cracks in multiple organizations and begun splintering both sides of the civil war. Zero Company itself is composed of individuals mostly from the Republic, but there are a few ex-Separatists in there too.