With Star Wars Zero Company arriving August 27, EA and developer Bit Reactor have released a final trailer pulling together everything the turn-based tactics game is promising ahead of launch. The single-player title, built in collaboration with Respawn Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games, casts players as Hawks, a former Republic officer commanding an unconventional squad of operatives through a cinematic original story set in the twilight of the Clone Wars.
The focus of the game centers on flexibility in how you approach each mission, with strategy playing out both at your base of operations and on what EA describes as an ever-shifting battlefield, where the outcomes of your decisions make each playthrough different. Missions span tactical operations, investigations, and other assignments, and your squad pulls from a wide variety of character archetypes ranging from scoundrels to astromechs, or even a Jedi, each with an arsenal of tactical abilities for outmaneuvering enemies.
There’s a relationship layer running underneath the combat too, as operatives deployed together learn to work as a unit and unlock new combat synergies over time. Customization extends across the roster as well, letting players tailor Hawks’ combat specialization and appearance before filling out the team with both original and custom-made Star Wars characters, right down to their appearances, loadouts, and abilities. It’s a structure that reminded us of Marvel’s Midnight Suns when the game was first detailed, between the base-building and the emphasis on squad bonds.
Preordering Star Wars Zero Company gets you the Crystalline Astromech Cosmetic Pack, which includes the R3 droid, translucent crystalline astromech heads for the R4 and R5 droid variants, and the exclusive BR-1 droid. The game launches August 27 on PlayStation 5, XBOX Series X|S, and PC. When EA first announced the project, we admitted our gut reaction was a simple plea of “please don’t suck,” given how the last few years have gone for Star Wars games. We find out in ten days whether Bit Reactor delivered.
