Earlier today, we were treated to our very first look at gameplay from Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Respawn Entertainment's upcoming action title. While it's pretty clear where the game draws its inspiration from, the developer has pointed out two main series that have influenced the design of its lightsaber-fuelled adventure.
Game Informer got the chance to go hands on with the game, and has come away feeling pretty positive. In the above video, they relay a fair amount of new information regarding how the game works. It's worth watching if you're at all interested, but these are the major points to take away:
- The structure of the game is heavily inspired by Metroid Prime, with elements you can't interact with until you have the appropriate power or ability. This means you'll be revisiting previous locations to uncover more of each environment.
- There are no waypoints guiding the way. As with Dark Souls, the developer wants you to freely explore and find your own way through the game.
- Sticking with Dark Souls, recuperating at specific points will respawn enemies and revive your supply of health canisters, which work like the Estus Flask.
- You'll be able to customise protagonist Cal Kestis cosmetically, as well as his lightsaber and the Stinger Mantis -- the ship you'll use to fly from planet to planet.
- Combat will combine lightsaber strikes with Force powers to give you plenty of options, and as we've seen, it's influenced by the likes of Dark Souls and God of War. Locking onto foes, facing off against multiple enemies, blocking and parrying, combining abilities -- fighting is deliberate and intense.
- You'll be unlocking new moves and powers on a big skill tree.
- There are bosses and mini bosses to take on in Fallen Order. The developer wants to provide a challenge, but expect it to be much more forgiving than Dark Souls.
Again, give the video a watch, as there's plenty more information to soak in. What do you think of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order so far? Let us know in the comments below.
[source youtube.com, via gameinformer.com]
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Like I said in the previous article, Reminds me of that old 90s Star Wars game, the one where force grab was so OP I played as a pacifist by disarming all the troopers.
How very original.
Lords of the Fallen Order?
Still looked more like Titanfall to me than Metroid Prime, Dark Souls or God of War.
I don’t know about the Dark Souls bonfire. Wrong game for it. It doesn’t fit Star Wars. I’m interested, but yeah, wrong format.
@Octane the game still look great playa.word up son
May have to cancel my preorder if its unnecessary hard like dark souls 😪
Well if it's a Souls-like I'm immediately more interested.
Souls-likes are my favorite genre of game!
This is starting to sound pretty good.
Its difficult to get an idea how enjoyable the controls can be . I just don't know what to think of it now. Could be nice
It has promise, but - and yes, I know it said alpha footage, so things might change - they need to work on the animation. The main character walking/running looks very poor.
Even so, given the original Anthem reveal was allegedly (at the time) a gameplay demo, do we trust this?
@johnny30 clearly states in the article it isn't. C'mon dude...😂
Its Starwars so day one for me, I love them all in their own way...
I'll just say this: in God of War, when you cut a guy in half he gets cut in half. You can't give me a lightsaber and then not let me mutilate people... Where's the fun in that?
Hell, in the Witcher 3, when you fought you had limbs, heads and torsos rolling all over... THAT was fun
@Paranoimia I trust Respawn
It looks really good, but I dont trust EA. I'll wait a month after release and see if they try to pull anything. Then if nothing happens, I'll buy it used. No sense in supporting EA.
Looks decent, if unspectacular. Probably an 8/10.
Two games im not a fan of are Metroid and Dark souls. So this one may be off my list for good. But as a SW fan I will watch a lot of in-depth reviews to see how it came out in the end.
For some reason it reminded me of Bound By Flame.
I loved Titanfall 2 but I wasn't expecting much from this...but I actually thought it looked pretty decent and more like Uncharted than Dark Souls.Just glad Jar Jar isant in it.
@DanM, probably comes down to Disney not wanting them to do anything that would cause it to get an "M" rating, and I'm actually okay with that, as being overly adult is something the series has never been.
I don’t know about the Dark Souls bonfire. Wrong game for it. I think we have enough Souls games in that vein.
@DanM as @RR529 said, they probably want a T rating, which is fine and a good thing for Star Wars. We have enough M rated games honestly. Now, you had limbs and torsos everywhere in the T rated Force Unleashed 2, but different games different factors.
I'll wait until reviews to come out and if this Star Wars game is good well I think EA will have my buck but if the game is bad or have something shady behind it well EA blew there final chance on the franchise.
I know it was Alpha footage but dear me that looked atrocious in every department. If I wasn't laughing so hard I'd have dozed off.
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