Star Wars: Zero Firm will function a diversified roster of characters as a part of the primary squad, together with a Mandalorian, Jedi Padawan, and an astromech droid–but for the primary protagonist of Hawks, gamers can be free to customise that operative. Chatting with GameSpot, Bit Reactor artistic director Greg Foertsch revealed that gamers could have a collection of choices to assist fine-tune the look of Hawks, starting from gender and voice by to their species within the Star Wars galaxy.

“You’ll be able to dwell by that character nonetheless you need,” Foertsch stated. “If you wish to change the species, you possibly can. If you wish to change their voice, you possibly can.”

The driving theme behind Hawks can be their origin story as a former Republic officer and the way they’re compelled to assemble a motley crew to tackle a harmful adversary whereas the Clone Wars rage on within the background. Whereas Hawks has been designed to have simply sufficient of a persona for gamers to imprint themselves on, Zero Firm’s roster of “authored characters” will all have their very own distinct backstories and personalities that gamers will uncover as they progress by the sport. One among these allies is Inform, a Jedi Padawan on a quest to complete her fallen grasp’s ultimate mission, and there’ll even be some friction between the remainder of the crew resulting from pure rivalries and animosity.

Curiously, gamers will have the ability to strengthen the bonds between these operatives, leading to highly effective synergy expertise that may assist flip the tide of battle. “With the authored characters, I feel one thing that the staff at Bit Reactor has accomplished a very nice job of is form of weaving within the completely different views that you’d count on them to have on the galaxy and the Clone Wars, with this particular story and this adversary that your organization goes up towards,” Lucasfilm Franchise Content material and Technique artistic government Kelsey Sharpe added.

“It is like a bit little bit of intrigue–the extra about Star Wars–but additionally if you do not know Star Wars, simply from watching that trailer you type of see how they bounce off of one another and also you go, ‘Oh, this is not the enjoyable instances gang that I assumed they have been,’ proper?”

For extra on Star Wars: Zero Firm, you possibly can try the reveal trailer from Star Wars Celebration Japan and browse up on how the builders behind it want to create an approachable entry within the techniques style.