New details have reportedly emerged about the highly anticipated “Star Wars Eclipse,” the High Republic-era set video game/interactive movie from famed developers Quantic Dream (“Heavy Rain,” “Detroit: Become Human”).
Announced during The Game Awards last year, the title is reportedly still in the very early production phases and so is some time off. Veteran games journalist and Sacred Symbols host Colin Moriarty (via VGC) has described documents provided to them offering a summary of one of the game’s main characters and their motivations.
According to the report, an athletic character named Sarah is the lead, a member of a human-like race which is “at the lead of some sort of empire called The Zaraan, a race not seen in Star Wars before.”
Said empire prides itself on political and military aggression, and when members of it marry it “carries interesting military implications as they become one governing unit that works together”.
This becomes a problem for fanatical true believer Sarah who is married to a character named Xendo, who is a far softer touch and “part of the game seems to revolve around these two characters and their relationship.”
The game unfolds at least 200 years before the events of “Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace” and is reportedly being co-written by David Cage and Adam Williams who previously helmed other Quantic Dream titles.
Nothing official has emerged about the project since it was first announced during The Game Awards. We do know the action unfolds in an uncharted region of the Outer Rim.
As per usual with Quantic Dream, it will delve into branching narratives, and so player choices will be at the heart of the experience as decisions have a dramatic impact on the course of the story.
Source: Sacred Symbols (via VGC)
