After creating two of one of the best Star Wars video games in latest reminiscence with 2019’s Jedi: Fallen Order and its sequel, 2023’s Survivor, Respawn Leisure is reportedly engaged on one other title set in a galaxy far, distant. Insider Gaming experiences that the title will probably be a first-person recreation centered on a Mandalorian bounty hunter, in response to the publication’s sources. Whereas the favored Disney+ sequence starring Pedro Pascal (quickly to be a characteristic movie) is known as The Mandalorian, the Respawn title is outwardly not about Pascal’s masked man. Quite the sport will observe an as-yet-unidentified member of the clan-based tradition.
Sources instructed Insider Gaming that the title will probably be set through the rule of the Empire, so between Episodes III and VI. Gameplay will probably be in first-person and contain excessive mobility due to the return of the enduring jetpack we have now seen sported by Boba and Jango Fett within the franchise. It will give gamers talents like horizontal dashing, vertical leaping, and enhance sliding. Respawn’s work on Titanfall and Apex Legends has all however confirmed the studio’s capacity to create unbelievable motion in first-person shooters, so this shouldn’t come as an excessive amount of of a shock. The sport will probably be a linear narrative recreation moderately than an open-world journey, centering round taking totally different bounties throughout quite a lot of planets, as you’d anticipate a bounty hunter in Star Wars to do.
This information is certain to excite a particular set of followers within the Star Wars group who’ve by no means moved on from the cancellation of Star Wars 1313. That mission bears a whole lot of resemblance to Respawn’s, as they’re each linear video games with a bounty hunter protagonist. 1313 was going to be a Boba Fett recreation, so gameplay might have concerned related mechanics like the usage of a jetpack. The canceled recreation stays an obsession of Star Wars followers, so hopefully Respawn’s mission will dwell as much as the decade-long hype for a recreation just like the one Insider Gaming experiences the studio is creating.