Star Wars Zero Company Understands that Star Wars Games Should Feel Less Like the Movies and More Like the Toys

Star Wars Zero Company understands that Star Wars games should feel less like the movies and more like the toys

I'm still early days on Star Wars Zero Company, but I think I'm in love. And this is kind of expected and also kind of strange. It's kind of expected because this is XCOM: Star Wars at first glance, and jeepers I love XCOM. I love moving my little units around, pondering when to advance and when to hang back, and I even love missing a shot that surely was almost a dead cert.

Review: Star Wars Zero Company's Turn-Based Combat is Refreshing and Addicting

Starting today, August 27th, head into a tactical adventure during the final days of the Clone Wars in Star Wars Zero Company. Star Wars Zero Company was developed by Bit Reactor in collaboration with Respawn Entertainment and Lucasfilm Games, bringing in turn-based strategy to a galaxy far, far away. Players...

Star Wars Zero Company Is a Buggy Yet Tense Tactical Take on Star Wars (Review)

Image Courtesy of Electronic Arts The endless wars among the stars have almost always been fought peering down the barrel of a gun or with a lightsaber in hand. The Star Wars franchise is often relegated to these fantasies and rarely mixes the two, multiplayer matches in Battlefront 2 being the notable and noncanonical exceptions. It’s hard for most genres […]

Zero Company Is The Rare Star Wars Game To Meaningfully Push A Genre Forward

Star Wars has been inspiring video games practically since video games have existed, but unlike the trailblazing film series, it has mostly been content to follow the leader. As a result, we've gotten all sorts of Star Wars video games molded after familiar templates, from first-person shooters to racing games. Those have been enjoyable enough, but they're very much defined as: "genre, but Star Wars." It's rare, but not unheard of, for a Star Wa…