Skydance New Media today announced a collaboration with Lucasfilm Games to develop and produce a narrative-driven, action-adventure game featuring an original story in the Star Wars galaxy. Responsible for this new Star Wars game will be Amy Hennig, a game-industry legend whose credits include the blockbuster series Legacy of Kain, Jak and Daxter, and Uncharted.
Amy Hennig previously worked on the Star Wars game from Visceral Games that Electronic Arts canceled in 2017. And, given the potential that Star Wars game had, we can’t wait to see what we’ll be getting now.
Hennig, president, Skydance New Media, said:
“I’ve often described how seeing Star Wars in 1977 essentially rewired my 12-year-old brain, shaping my creative life and future indelibly. I’m elated to be working with Lucasfilm Games again to tell interactive stories in this galaxy that I love.”
Douglas Reilly, vice president at Lucasfilm Games, also added:
“We couldn’t be more thrilled to be working again with Amy. She and the Skydance New Media team have the talent and ambition to create a unique Star Wars adventure. Their vision for making narrative driven and engaging interactive entertainment makes this collaboration very exciting. We’re working hard with their team of experienced and talented developers, and we’re looking forward to sharing more with Star Wars fans when the time is right.”
Beak, executive vice president & GM, Skydance New Media, concluded:
“We couldn’t be happier to be working with Lucasfilm Games. We look forward to taking fans on an epic journey with this Star Wars action-adventure title.”
Skydance New Media has not released any screenshots or trailer for this new Star Wars game. As such, you should not expect to be playing it anytime soon.
Stay tuned for more!
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The fact that your can’t form a simple sentence without throwing some insult or slur around. You must be a real treat in person.
Well, in fact I wasn’t attacking what your saying, rather the way you are saying it, hence your English skills. You’re assuming more about me than I am of you. But again with you being illiterate, I can’t blame you.
This guy is our resident clown. Not taking him seriously is usually the best policy lest he launch verbal vomit your way.
Well, in fact I wasn’t attacking what your saying, rather the way you are saying it, hence your English skills. And you’re assuming more about me than I am of you. But again you being illiterate, I can’t blame you.
He speaks retarded.
I’m not a star wars soy goy but Jedi: Fallen Order was brilliant, and not even the ugly nog could ruin it for me.
One of the better Star Wars games outside the Dark Forces/Jedi Knight series of games for sure, but I wouldn’t call it brilliant.
The Star Wars universe is absolute gold for making a sick singleplayer RPG. As long as you stay clear from everything that was in the episode 7-9 people will buy it.
Amy Hennig has been behind some very good games in the past (Desert Strike, Legacy Of Kane). Just nothing good in the last two decades.
The problem with her more recent games was never the writing though, was it?
Not necessarily, depends who you ask. Though unfortunately, they are still the only games she’s been involved in.
You keep forgetting to take your meds.
Dead as Diaper Joe land.
Just don’t be another “souls-like-Fallen-Order”.More in the corner of Jedi Knight II or the first Force Unleashed.Or some SP ARPG, for a change.
What is the obsession with this garbage ip!
Wasn’t this project announced a long time ago already? Or was Amy Hennig supposed to work on that canceled Star Wars Unchartedlike with the number in its name? In any case, good for her, she’s one of the few non-crazies among game writers.
You’re thinking of 1313, an Uncharted clone where you play as (pre-Disney cucked) Boba Fett, fighting in the lower levels of Coruscant. Disney cancelled when they bought the Lucas companies and closed developer/publisher Lucasarts.
The game she was working on was codenamed “Ragtag” at the former Dead Space studio Visceral. EA cancelled it because they couldn’t shoehorn in EA Sports Ultimate Team monetisation like how the EA executives wanted at the time.
“Amy Hennig is no Daniel Vavra she is the writer for that new poc Forspoken wamen garbage.”
Sounds like one of those PR deals. I just googled it and she was only brought on LATE LAST YEAR. Consider how long games like this are in the works. This is like when 343 brought on Joseph Staten to gain some cred with the Halo fanbase back, months before releasing Infinite. Forspoken is also delayed, just like Infinite. It was supposed to come out NEXT MONTH originally. So on the original roadmap Hennig would have been on board for the last half year of production! How could she fix the game’s writing after all the mission scripting was already done? How could she make the story good after all the locations and characters had already been created? Now she technically has 5 additional months to make some impact, but you have to assume they spent the last months trying to finish the game rather than overhauling it. They are only NOW openly changing things, and only have 5 months left.
Don’t blame Hennig for taking an easy pay day. They get to use her name in trailers and such, maybe put “writer of Uncharted” on the cover / store pages, and she’s going to try to fix some of the worst problems with the game’s story and lore, but the reality is, there’s no way the devs are redoing all the characters, missions, voice acting, you name it. The only thing that can be conveniently changed this late are text boxes, like item descriptions. lol
Ahhh, Amy Hennig a woman who succeeded in the industry based on merit and not by crying victim for free hand outs. She was later forced out off the franchise that she co-created by supposed male feminist ally Neil Cuckmann.
I’m not surprised if Luke skywalker and Han Solo become ghey in this game. Its Disney afterall.