EA's Next Big Star Wars Game is a 5v5 Dogfight Battle

EA still has a stranglehold on the Star Wars license, at least in the realm of video games, and while their most recent outing has been well-received (thanks mostly to the fact that Respawn is a really, really good studio), the disaster that was Star Wars Battlefront 2 and its terrible launch is still fresh in people’s minds.

It’s a reputation that EA wants to shake, and yesterday, EA announced their latest attempts with Star Wars Squadrons, a 5v5 dogfighting game set after Return of the Jedi that has both a multiplayer and a single-player component.

Check out the official reveal trailer:


 

Buckle up, take full control of starfighters such as the X-wing and TIE fighter, and feel the adrenaline of strategic first-person 5v5 multiplayer dogfights alongside your squadron. In a fateful campaign set near the conclusion of the Galactic Civil War, learn what it means to be a pilot in a thrilling STAR WARS™ single-player story. The New Republic fights for freedom. The Empire demands order. We need you to join the galaxy’s finest. STAR WARS™: Squadrons is available October 2, 2020 on PlayStation®4, Xbox One, Origin PC, Steam, Epic Games Store, and Virtual Reality (VR) on PlayStation 4 and PC with cross-play support.

Of course, the trailer didn’t actually show us any gameplay – which ruins any hype one might feel – but one has to assume that the dogfighting in this game would be more engaging and mechanical than the comparatively rudimentary air combat in Star Wars Battlefront 1 and 2.

One also has to believe, given the date its due to come out, that a next-gen version of the game is also in the works – otherwise, this would be one of the last proper Triple-A games to come out on current-gen systems.

We’ll have to see over the coming months if this is actually something worth being excited about.