

This is especially helpful as Cal needs to return with new skills later to explore some new paths or unlock collectibles. For cases like those, like in Fallen Order, it's possible to unlock shortcuts as Cal progresses. While Cal is zooming in on distant objectives, BD-1 can also ping points of interest, in case players need to keep track of them for later.

Specifically, the little droid helps out with the BD-noculars mechanic, which has Cal look through his visor as a makeshift set of binoculars.


There are a few new tools to use, mainly tied to BD-1. Players travel across a lengthy map, climb a variety of surfaces, swing across pits, and solve a slew of environmental puzzles en route to an objective. Respawn hasn't tampered too much with the formula. The on-foot expedition to Rambler's Reach should look familiar to anyone who has played the original. Knowing he's the right person to help fix the Mantis, it's time to trek to a nearby village called Rambler's Reach. The ship is busted, but Cal and BD-1 just so happen to have landed on the planet where their old friend and pilot Greez is residing. Our demo began roughly an hour into the campaign with Cal and BD-1 crashing the Stinger Mantis onto the planet Koboh, which is a brand new location built for this game. Cal's only remaining friend is the trusty droid BD-1. While Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order ended with Cal's crew a tight-knit unit, Survivor begins with everyone having gone their separate ways. Shacknews recently had a chance to try it out for the first time. A lot is changing, story-wise, for the upcoming Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, but like its main character, this sequel is showing several signs of growth.
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Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was a breath of fresh air for series fans with Respawn Entertainment once again showing the quality of single-player adventure the team is capable of putting together. Players got to experience a journey in which he developed his Jedi skills and grew alongside a crew of misfits and outcasts.
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor is now available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and Windows PC.It has been several years since Star Wars fans met Cal Kestis, a lost Padawan who was uprooted from his new life by a vindictive Empire hunting his kind down. The Dark Times are closing in - with enemies new and familiar surrounding him, Cal will need to decide how far he’s willing to go to save those closest to him. No longer a Padawan, Cal has come into his own and grown into a powerful Jedi Knight.Ĭarrying the memories and expectations of the Jedi Order with him, his crusade against the Empire has only become more perilous. Picking up five years after the events of Jedi: Fallen Order, Jedi: Survivor is a third-person, narrative-driven action-adventure game from Respawn Entertainment, developed in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor Sequel is Already Being Worked On Star Wars Jedi: Survivor was a hit, anyway, so we'll hopefully have more details to share with you soon. That sounds an awful lot like a new instalment of this Star Wars Jedi series and lines up with what the franchise's director previously said about the plan being to tell this story across a trilogy of games. The hope is that a third instalment will continue following the Jedi's battle with his darker impulses, and we now have a very good indication that a threequel is indeed in the works from EA.Ī post on LinkedIn reveals that the company is looking to hire a, "highly skilled Principal Game Writer who will embrace our philosophy and share their hard-earned expertise to help us create an incredible Star Wars experience for our players in a fun, third-person action-adventure setting." As a result, we see Cal tempted by the Dark Side, with players actually given the chance to tap into that in order to lay waste to enemies during the game's final act. Played by Cameron Monaghan, the character attempts to find a permanent escape from the Empire in the sequel and is betrayed by one of his closest allies along the way. Star Wars Jedi: Survivor has received widespread acclaim from fans and critics alike, particularly for its compelling narrative revolving around lead Cal Kestis.
