The New Star Wars Galaxy’s Edge VR Lets You Play as IG-88

Selling a brand new Star Wars product to a Star Wars fan isn’t troublesome. Usually the dialog is one thing alongside the traces of “Oh, hi, we made a new Star Wars…” “GIVE IT TO ME NOW.” So when the staff at Lucasfilm does go the surprising further mile, it’s actually appreciated. They actually don’t should.

Take Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge. The ILMxLAB VR expertise for Oculus lets customers run across the planet Batuu fixing mysteries, defeating dangerous guys, it’s a whole lot of enjoyable. (Read our preliminary assessment right here). Things may have ended there. But now, a yr later, the sport’s enlargement, subtitled Last Call, is sort of upon us and never solely does it decide up the primary sport’s story, there are new twists, akin to the chance to play as one of the crucial recognizable bounty hunters in Star Wars lore: IG-88. Check it out within the model new trailer, which additionally reveals the sport’s launch date of September 15.

So a lot happening right here. First of all, the IG-88 stuff appears to be like like a lot enjoyable and positively looks like it was influenced by how Jon Favreau and the staff on The Mandalorian outlined IG-11’s combating fashion on that present. In Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge, you play as IG-88 in a aspect story known as The Bounty of Boggs Triff. Oh, and IG-88 is voiced by a pal of IG-11’s Taika Waititi: Rhys Darby from Flight of the Conchords and Jumanji.

Then there’s the continuation of The High Republic story from the primary sport, which you see on this trailer with all of the lightsaber stuff and remotes. This new story is named The Sacred Garden, and it now sees Jedi apprentice Ady’Sun Zee transferring as much as a Jedi Knight, and having train her personal Padawan, named Nooa.

That’s all along with the common sport itself, the place you’re nonetheless the identical previous droid technician who’s operating round Batuu serving to individuals out. This time, you’ll assist out Hondo Ohnaka and even present down with the First Order. We’ll have way more on Star Wars: Tales From the Galaxy’s Edge—Last Call when it comes out September 15 on Oculus Quest. It prices $9.99.

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