Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is an upcoming Lego-themed action-adventure game scheduled to be released in the Q2 2021 for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. It will be the sixth entry in TT Games' Lego Star Wars series of video games and the successor to Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The game will adapt all nine entries in the Skywalker saga series of films.[1]

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
Cover art
Developer(s)Traveller's Tales
Publisher(s)Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Director(s)James McLoughlin
SeriesLego Star Wars
Platform(s)
ReleaseQ2 2021
Genre(s)Action-adventure
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

Unlike most Lego video games in which players had to advance through the story in a linear order, players can choose to start the game from any of the nine Skywalker saga episodes and complete them in any order they wish.[2] Each episode will have five story missions, making a total of 45 levels, contrasting from six levels per episode in previous games. Combat has been revamped from previous titles, such as lightsaber wielders now using a variety of combos with light attacks, heavy attacks, and Force moves, and blaster characters having an over-the-shoulder camera (angle featured in many third-person shooter games). The game features 300 playable characters.[3]

Much like its predecessor, Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the game's hub will not be a single area, such as the Mos Eisley Cantina in Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga, but a wide range of fully explorable planets filled with many iconic Star Wars landmarks. Planets and moons confirmed by the developers so far to be explorable in the hub include Naboo, Tatooine, Coruscant, Kamino, Geonosis, Kashyyyk, Utapau, Mustafar, Yavin 4, Hoth, Dagobah, Bespin, Endor, Jakku, Takodana, D'Qar, Starkiller Base, Ahch-To, Cantonica, Crait, Ajan Kloss, Pasaana, Kijimi, Kef Bir, and Exegol.[3] Many ships will have freely explorable areas in the hub as well, such as Star Destroyers and the Death Star. Random encounters will also happen in the game's hub. For example, an Imperial Star Destroyer could suddenly jump out of hyperspace and send a fleet of TIE Fighters after the player. Players can choose to engage in dogfights with them or continue onward to progress the story.

Development and marketing

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was first teased to be in development by Lucasfilm sound editor Matthew Wood at Star Wars Celebration Chicago. An announcement trailer premiered at E3 2019 during Microsoft's press conference. A second trailer showing one scene from all nine movies was released on 20 December to coincide with the release of The Rise of Skywalker.[4] The official artwork was revealed on 4 May 2020.[5]

Disney and Lucasfilm had not shared significant details of The Rise of Skywalker with the game team before the film's release. In the meantime, TT Games worked on other aspects of the game until Lucasfilm shared more details.[6] The game is developed in Traveller's Tales' new engine, NTT (pronounced Entity).[7]

Audio

Like Lego Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will use original voice acting, with the first actor of the game being Billy Dee Williams voicing Lando Calrissian.[8]

On 7 May 2020 the release date was mentioned as 20 October 2020[9] through the Star Wars YouTube channel. On the same day, the original video was made private and a new video, in which the release date was cut out, was uploaded. This date was not otherwise confirmed.[10] On 26 August 2020, the Lego website displayed the release date as being 2021, but the website was taken down. It has since been updated to remove any suggestion of a release year.[11] The following day at the 2020 Gamescom Opening Night Live, it was announced that the game would release in Q2 2021

under the description of "Spring 2021" with additional versions on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.[12]

The game will be available in a Standard Edition and a Deluxe Edition. The Deluxe Edition includes the Character Collection bundle, which collects six character packs based around characters from outside of the Skywalker Saga, which consists of packs from The Mandalorian, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Solo: A Star Wars Story, the forthcoming series Star Wars: The Bad Batch and a pack containing Classic Characters.[13][14]

The retail Deluxe Edition will come with an exclusive Luke Skywalker with Blue Milk minifigure, and different box art showcasing Darth Vader, with his mask being removable by lifting up the included slipcase. Physical Deluxe editions will be released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and an Xbox version which can function as both the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S versions depending on which console it is played on.[15] A steelbook resembling Han Solo in Carbonite is included with pre-orders of any edition from Best Buy or Best Buy Canada or pre-orders of the Deluxe Edition bundle from Game.[16]

References
  1. Dornbush, Jonathon; Stevens, Colin (9 June 2019). "LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Includes Episode 1-9 - E3 2019". IGN. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  2. "LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga".
  3. Brooks, Dan (4 May 2020). ""We Were Always Going to Go Big!": Inside LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga". StarWars.com. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  4. Little, Riley (20 December 2019). "LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Reimagines All 9 Episodes". Screen Rant. Retrieved 20 December 2019.
  5. Gilbert, Fraser (4 May 2020). "The Official Box Art For LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Has Reportedly Arrived". Pure Xbox. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  6. Chris Compendio (2 August 2019). "Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Interview — Developers Discuss the Series' Legacy, Episode IX, and Prequel Memes". DualShockers. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
  7. Phillips, Tom (27 June 2019). "Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga feels like a new hope for Lego video games". Eurogamer. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  8. ""LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga" Gets a New Sizzle Trailer". 20 December 2019.
  9. "LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Gets a Release Date". Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  10. "LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Release Date Announced - IGN" – via www.ign.com.
  11. Xbox, Pure (26 August 2020). "LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Delayed Until 2021, Gameplay Reveal Tomorrow". Pure Xbox. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  12. "LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Reveals First Gameplay and Release Window". GAMING. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  13. "LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga To Feature DLC Packs For "The Mandalorian" & "The Bad Batch" | What's On Disney Plus". 27 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  14. "Lego Star Wars: Skywalker Saga Pre-Orders Include Deluxe Edition, Exclusive Steelbook". GameSpot. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  15. "The LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Deluxe Edition…Unmasked". StarWars.com. 27 August 2020. Retrieved 28 August 2020.
  16. Graham (29 August 2020). "LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga steelbook coming to Game in the UK". Brick Fanatics. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
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