Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order got a lengthy gameplay trailer during EA's EA Play livestream, showing off a lot of combat. While we doubt that we've seen everything it has to offer, it does look decent, opting for a dynamic system that's actually quite open ended. Developer Respawn Entertainment describes the combat as "freeform" meaning that you're given a lot of attacks, techniques, and tools, and you're free to use them however you like.
During the stream, the studio noted that the combat isn't "scripted" -- you've always got a lot of control over what main character Cal is doing. You can mix and match moves to suit your style of play, too. As seen in the demo, you can grab enemies using the force, throw them, slow time, deflect projectiles, parry, counter, dodge -- and you can link all of these abilities together. The idea is that having such a "freeform" system leaves a lot of room for replayability.
Do you think the combat in Fallen Order looks enticing? Feel free to make lightsaber sounds in the comments section below.
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Looks pretty generic but there were a couple of cool moments and it's gotta be better than Battlefront so
It looked really, really good imo
Combat looked OK - reminded me a lot of the Witcher 3 with the sword play and the force being a bit like Signs. The ability to throw the sabre was quite GoW but seemed to come straight back rather than be recalled.
Nothing was 'terrible' or even 'bad' enough to put me off and, if anything, the demo left me more optimistic, more positive and more likely to buy sooner rather than later when the price is dropped low enough. There is still time of course and it looked like more opportunity to explore - hopefully not just for collectables.
The biggest take away for me was how 'Titanfall' it was - how much it looked like TF with Star Wars characters dropped in. If you take out them, the environment and movement could have been TF3...
@BAMozzy ''The biggest take away for me was how 'Titanfall' it was''
My thoughts exactly. I hope there are going to be more diverse locations, because this looked exactly like the planet from Titanfall 2.
Yawn.
This could easily be the dullest, most generic Star Wars game I've seen in a while 😂
Really don't like the look of the main character. Something about his face I don't like.
@Octane It did look a bit like that planet but arguably any green planet could of looked like that from the same devs. I am hoping that they don't have a copy and paste approach to the story chapters. All had the same basic premise of get separated from your Titan and have to do some platforming mixed with the odd bit of combat before meeting back up with your titan for a 'boss fight' as every TF2 story mission followed.
For a first reveal where no story was revealed and, it seemed early on, it has potential. We don't know how Skill points can be applied and how that may change the game-play. There looked to be more paths than the one he took to explore - it could just be a collectable or some other aspect that they weren't willing to tell us about yet. The story is canon so that may give us a decent campaign (not like BF2's) and I saw some similarities to that game as well btw...
They have a few months to raise my interest enough to jump in at or soon after launch but also time to put me off as well...
@JohnnyShoulder He's definitely got a punchable face.
I wasn't expecting anything amazing, but this looks pretty solid. It would be great to have a good linear, story driven SW game after so long.
@ShogunRok Glad you said it cos I've been thinking that ever since they revealed it! 👊
@BAMozzy They could've gone for something more like Endor. It could be a time-saving thing by reusing the assets from TF2. I haven't compared it one to one, but it did look very similar. Anyway, maybe not the best location for the first gameplay demo.
This is the wookie planet with refineries all over it, it was never gonna look amazing but I imagine other levels will as they will have more detail and eye candy. Plus the star wars sets have always been a bit bland.
I hated the way that the Jedi was carefully balancing across beams and pipes. He's a frickin' Jedi! A ginger one.
@JohnnyShoulder
I feel it's a bit too cartoony
@JJ2 I think he reminds me a bit of Hayden Christensen.
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