At the very least, Star Wars will still be highly relevant by 2027.
Support The Alliance On Patreon & Get Ad-Free, Exclusive, Early Episodes https. Plus, there's Electronic Arts' trio of Star Wars games that are in development at Respawn Entertainment. Thank you for choosing Star Wars Alliance for all of your Star Wars News and Reviews This week Katie and Clay talk Star Wars Eclipse, the video game being developed by Quantic Dream. In addition to Obi-Wan Kenobi, fans can look forward to Ahsoka Tano, The Mandalorian Season 3, and a possible return of Mace Windu, among others. The good news here is that Star Wars isn't going on hiatus anytime soon.įollowing the commercial success of the sequel trilogy, Disney is investing big into the Star Wars franchise again albeit on the Disney+ streaming platform. Just to put into context how long five years from now is going to be, GTA VI, The Elder Scrolls VI, and maybe even Fallout: New Vegas 2 as well as Dragon Age 4 and Mass Effect 4 and a handful of new games from Valve (no, not Half-Life 3), could have already come out by then. Quantic Stream is currently at the center of controversy, following reports of racist, sexist, and homophobic workplace culture. It certainly doesn't help that Quantic isn't well-known (yet, hopefully) for producing high-quality AAA action-adventure games, so there's going to be a bit of a learning curve. We're not saying that Quantic stands no chance, but the odds are definitely against the studio. For every The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, there's an Anthem and a Duke Nukem Forever that flops face-first into the ground at launch. It has happened before, but it almost always never goes well. It's not unusual for developers to announce a game, only to release it many years later. First unveiled at The Game Awards last December, the debut reveal trailer for Star Wars Eclipse was undeniably striking. Development controversy aside, Star Wars Eclipse is confirmed to be an action-adventure game, with a multiple-character branching narrative that sees the players choices have tangible consequences. The only problem with the studio's statement is that they didn't exactly deny that Eclipse's release date is still five years away from now. Heres what we know about Quantic Dreams upcoming Star Wars game. Furthermore, Quantum explained that it is not possible to delay a game that has never had a release date to begin with. Announcing a game six years before its release date is a recipe for disaster, even for a Star Wars project.Īccording to a statement released to GamesRadar, its upcoming Star Wars game isn't delayed and is still on track to release, whenever that is. Now, a few weeks later, the Detroit: Become Human developers have refuted such claims (or maybe not?).
Sure enough, when the awards show aired on December 10, viewers were treated to a cinematic trailer for the aforementioned Eclipse, to be developed by Quantic Dream in partnership with Lucasfilm Games. A few months later, we reported that development on the game had hit a snag and that Eclipse won't be around until 2027. The first rumors of Eclipse came out a few weeks prior to the debut of 2021s Video Game Awards show hosted by Geoff Keighley. The implication is that the cause of the deviant androids is equal to that of people suffering through societal and institutional racism in the 1940s - yet presenting the mere image does nothing to further the cause of the androids beyond the player's prior knowledge of the march itself, and making this heavy comparison become yet another staple of Quantic Dream's attitudes - levelling everything they present with a "maybe", giving the player the option to disregard denouncements of racism, lest it impact their final thoughts on the game.Back in December, Quantic Dream confirmed that it was working on its first-ever action-adventure game, Star Wars: Eclipse, which is a single-player project that takes place in the High Republic era.
Most notable is the climactic moment in Detriot: Become Human, where if the right choices are made, deviant android Markus rallies androids from across the city to march through the streets, purposefully echoing Martin Luther King's famous March on Washington in support of a strong civil rights bill. Quantic Dream has a habit of presenting political ideas in their games, but without ever presenting them with enough gravity to force the player to make a decision on them.