For higher or worse, the timeline between a massive triple-A recreation’s reveal and its precise launch can usually be an extended one. Star Wars Eclipse’s debut trailer was proven on the 2021 Recreation Awards, and in that point, there’s been nary a point out of the long run PlayStation unique. Given how Star Wars motion pictures have a behavior of getting introduced after which quietly euthanized (to say nothing of video games which have shared a related destiny) , you wouldn’t be improper in considering an identical factor occurred to Eclipse. But developer Quantic Dream just lately affirmed that it’ll see the sunshine of day.
“Can I say it nonetheless exists? As a result of it exists,” stated advertising VP Lisa Pendse to IGN at Tokyo Recreation Present earlier within the week. When requested about an replace on the sport, she added that Star Wars Eclipse is presently “simply not prepared. It’s simmering.” Final yr, Quantic Dream needed to tackle related questions concerning the recreation being quietly delayed after stories claimed it was having points with hiring on staffers within the wake of allegations in 2018 of toxicity and harassment in opposition to the studio (together with its president David Cage particularly). In response to these claims concerning the delay, Quantic Dream argued that because it “by no means introduced or promised a launch window for the title,” the sport was technically by no means delayed to start with.
Past being set within the nonetheless new timeline of the Excessive Republic (set hundreds of years previous to the flicks and materials in that area), Quantic Dream has been quiet on what it needs to do with Star Wars Eclipse. Nonetheless, Pendse instructed IGN the sport could be with no “Recreation Over” display screen, implying that there’ll be an excellent quantity of characters for gamers to inhabit all through the story. Earlier works from the studio like Heavy Rain and Detroit: Change into Human additionally function a number of protagonists, and this sounds prefer it’s constructing upon these two video games.
“[Star Wars Eclipse] is an action-adventure recreation that has all the parts that you’d come to count on and need from a Quantic Dream title, which is intricately branching narratives, a number of playable characters,” she defined. “Anybody can die, something can occur and the story form of continues in order that these signatures are nonetheless there. However what we’ve been doing is much more ramping up our experience within the gameplay enviornment.”
Every time Quantic Dream deigns to disclose footage for Eclipse, it does appear as if it’ll be one other yr or two earlier than it releases. Till then, it’s not like there’s a scarcity of Star Wars video games to play—Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is out now and wonderful, and Ubisoft’s Star Wars Outlaws is about to come back out in 2024. And someplace within the combine shall be a 3rd Jedi recreation, a remake of Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic, and certainly different titles which might be ready to ultimately be revealed.
