Star Wars: Zero Company‘s Developers Want You to Shape Its Story as Much as They Do

At Star Wars Celebration this weekend Bit Reactor and Respawn teamed up to finally lift the lid on something gamers in the galaxy far, far away have waited a long time to see: a turn-based tactics game. That long-awaited wish has come in the form of Zero Company, a game that wants to honor Star Wars‘ past in the strategy genre, while also standing toe-to-toe with the kinds of cinematic experiences modern gamers have come to expect from a similarly cinematic franchise. “I think that now is the time that we can actually do it and not cost depth and elegance, right? Like, we can do both, technically we’re able to do both,” Bit Reactor co-founder Greg Foertsch told io9 shortly after the panel revealing Zero Company to the world. “I think the genre is ready for it. Star Wars is ready for it. I think fans hopefully know they’re ready for it. Maybe they don’t! But I think we’re going to be able to make a game that transcends the genre and does justice to the IP.” Zero Company has been a vag ... Read full article.