The Game Awards kicked off with a major announcement – “Star Wars: Fate of the Old Republic”.
The title is a new big-budget, epic narrative, single-player, action-adventure RPG game in development at Lucasfilm Games and the new Edmonton-based Arcanaut Studios for PC and consoles.
A cinematic trailer was shown off, scenes captured in Unreal Engine 5, showing a Force user among others landing on a planet during a time at the end of the Old Republic.
Casey Hudson, the director of the original “Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic” and the famed “Mass Effect” trilogy, will serve as game director on this new title.
There appears to be a choice-driven moral system as “every decision deepens your journey toward the light…or the darkness”.
According to Hudson, the game is “not a direct sequel or continuation” but “is being built by people who helped shape that legacy”.
He confirms the game is still in “early development” (ie. years away) and will focus on “new characters for an all-new story”.
Source: Starwars.com
