Respawn Leisure is creating the third sport within the Star Wars Jedi saga, writer Digital Arts confirmed Tuesday. At its Investor Day 2024 convention, EA revealed that the developer was onerous at work on the “remaining chapter” of Jedi knight Cal Kestis’ story. The third Star Wars Jedi sport would wrap up a trilogy that features 2019’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and final 12 months’s Star Wars: Jedi Survivor.
Third Star Wars Jedi sport in improvement
On the convention, Laura Miele, president of Leisure and Know-how at EA, talked concerning the initiatives in improvement at studios below the corporate’s banner, confirming that improvement on the third Star Wars Jedi title had begun. “Respawn’s working onerous to carry the ultimate chapter of this thrilling story to gamers,” she mentioned. The manager, nevertheless, didn’t reveal any particulars concerning the sport’s launch timeline.
Miele additionally detailed EA’s collaboration with Lucasfilm and Star Wars, saying that the writer had delivered “a few of the highest high quality and best-selling Star Wars video games of all time, with over $5 billion (roughly Rs. 41,861 crore) in internet bookings.
“This spectacular monitor report contains after all the Star Wars Jedi video games, the place over 40 million Star Wars followers have linked with Cal Kestis and his arc of turning into a strong Jedi,” she added.
In 2013, EA acquired an unique license to supply Star Wars video games for consoles and PC for a interval 10 years and has since made fashionable Star Wars Battlefront titles, area fight motion title Star Wars: Squadrons and two video games within the Star Wars Jedi sequence. EA, nevertheless, now not has unique rights to creating Star Wars video video games.
Star Wars Jedi trilogy
Forward of the launch of Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, sport director Stig Asmussen had mentioned that he all the time noticed Cal Kestis’ story as a trilogy. Asmussen, who had helmed the primary two video games within the trilogy, has since departed Respawn and arrange his personal studio.
Whereas that is the primary time EA has confirmed improvement on the follow-up to Jedi Survivor, at a Comedian Con occasion in September 2023, Cameron Monaghan, the actor who gives his voice, likeness and movement caption for Star Wars Jedi protagonist Cal Kestis, had shared {that a} third sport within the trilogy was below improvement. “We’re engaged on the third. We’re within the means of doing it proper now,” Monaghan had reportedly mentioned. “That is a giant endeavor and there have been some conversations up to now, however hopefully when all issues are mentioned and finished, we’ll be capable to go in and make one thing actually cool for you guys once more.”
The Star Wars Jedi sequence tells the coming-of-age story of Cal Kestis, a former Padawan who survived the purge and, as a younger Jedi, goes on a sprawling journey to rebuild the order with the assistance of his associates, finally turning into a strong Jedi Knight. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, the second sport within the trilogy, launched final 12 months on PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence S/X. The sport lastly launched on PS4 and Xbox One on Tuesday.