Amy Hennig details Visceral's upcoming Star Wars game
We don't know much about Visceral Games and EA Motive's upcoming Star Wars game. It's been a year since Nolan North said that it's similar to the Uncharted series, which creative director Amy Hennig has now confirmed.
During one of today's Star Wars Celebration panels, the former Uncharted writer took the stage to share a few hints and details about the project.
The reason they're collaborating so closely with Lucasfilm is that they're writing "an original Star Wars story with new characters, locations, tech, creatures, you name it..."
They want it to be as authentic as possible. When asked how they'll accomplish this she said:
"The process that I've been using is really similar to what I did with Uncharted, to be honest [the crowd cheered]. Thank you. Oh good, They'll like this game then. Which was, if you're trying to re-create that classic - in that case - pulp action adventure experience, you need to deconstruct the films so you know how to reconstruct them in an interactive context as gameplay.
"The end goal of a game like that is that by the time the player has finished playing the game they feel like they really did play a Star Wars film. So I've done the same thing for Star Wars. What does that mean? It's getting the structure right. It means you have to understand where the act breaks fall, where all the obstacles and reversals fall, and the set-pieces. What are all the component parts that make up a Star Wars story."
Hennig then somewhat teased that the game will focus on multiple characters.
"What I was really eager to discover is what distinguished Star Wars films from the others I'd been studying in the action-adventure genre. The first thing that jumped out was these are always ensemble stories, and that's actually kind of unusual.
"People would say there's other characters in something like Indiana Jones, but they're side characters. In Star Wars they're co-protagonists, so if you think about the original trilogy, or even the films that are now, it's as much Leia's, Han's, and Vader's story as it is Luke's."
Apparently they want make this a part of their Star Wars game as well. Both in terms of story and gameplay. Being able to maintain the swashbuckling charm and humour and buoyancy, while also having high stakes and jeopardy.
It's also worth noting that Hennig said there are more to what we've seen from the game than first meets the eye. Lets analyse those screenshots and concept art, people!
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