LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will release on 5th April 2022, coming out for Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC. To mark the announcement, a new gameplay overview trailer has also been released.
Finally getting a firm release date is a pretty big milestone for this game. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga was originally planned for release in 2020, but after half a year of the pandemic, Warner Bros. made the difficult decision to push it back to early 2021, and then delay it again to early 2022. Hopefully the extended development cycle will be worth it, coming three years after the last TT Games LEGO game – The Lego Movie 2 Videogame – when there had been at least one LEGO game from them going all the way back to the original LEGO Star Wars in 2005.
Update: Disappointingly, a report has emerged discussing a culture of crunch and overtime, as well as other development issues that have affected TT Games.
TT Games has completely overhaul the series’ gameplay. There’s new combat mechanics, such as over-the-shoulder blaster aiming and tucking into cover, and a more dynamic 3D camera that’s closer to the action than ever before. Space battles will have 3rd person follow cams for broader space dogfighting.
Levels will spice things up with different set pieces, like speeder bike chases, lobbing artillery at oncoming droid armies, and more. There’s also multiple routes through levels now, giving you a choice between head-on confrontation and stealthier paths, for example. Each location lets you progress the main story, or take a detour to explore more open world planets with side missions.
Exploring and finding Kyber bricks will allow you to upgrade different character classes, such as Scavenger characters having access to a net launcher to create climbable surfaces, or Scoundrels sensing opportunities for special shots. Handy when there’s over 300 characters that you can play as.
Last but not least, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga will have fully voiced cutscenes and interactions, as all the most recent games have had… but a new Mumble Mode will let you switch back to the classic style of the original LEGO Star Wars games, replacing all voices with mumbles.
Source: press release
