Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will be a story-driven game with no multiplayer or microtransactions

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The Force is strong with this one

During the Day 1 Livestream of the Star Wars Celebration 2019,  head of Respawn Vince Zampella revealed the highly anticipated Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order will be a single-player, story-driven game with no multiplayer or microtransactions in sight. 

“It’s a single-player story game”, Zampella said as the crowd cheered, “no multiplayer, no microtransactions - it’s a story game!” 

Zampella didn’t say much we didn’t already know about the story after the host reiterated the game will be set during the Dark Times: “It follows a Padawan’s journey who survived after order 66 and we’re gonna see his journey to what we know now.” 

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Order 66 took place after the Clone Wars and, as you might remember, Emperor Palpatine calls for the order to be executed during the Revenge of the Sith. The secret order recognises all Jedi as traitors to the Galactic republic, and allowed the Grand Army of the Republic to execute any Jedi who cross their path. It’s easy to see why this time period is referred to as the ‘Dark Times’. 

After the story tease, Zampella officially revealed the poster for the Fallen Order, which you might have seen already thanks to Amazon accidentally leaking the image on a t-shirt just days before the Celebration event. 

You can see Zampella’s short talk about the game below at around the 5:04 mark.

A panel all about the Fallen Order is set to start today (April 13) at 1:30 PM CT/ 7:30 PM BST, with Vince Zampella and game director Stig Asmussen who will also be joined by a host of other guests. 

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was first revealed at E3 last year, and since then we’ve only gotten little tidbits of information about the hotly anticipated game set in the Star Wars ‘verse. It truly feels like an honest to goodness narrative-driven Star Wars game is what we need right now. And after all of the microtransaction upset EA caused for Star Wars Battlefront 2 back in 2017, seeing Respawn take the Fallen Order in this direction is very welcome. 

Excited about the Fallen Order? So are we! Be sure check out our round-up of the Fallen Order: release date, new lightsaber teaser, and potential story.

Heather Wald
Heather Wald
Evergreen Editor, Games

Heather Wald is the Evergreen Editor, Games at GamesRadar+. Her writing career began on a student-led magazine at Bath Spa University, where she earned a BA (Hons) in English literature. Heather landed her first role writing about tech and games for Stuff Magazine shortly after graduating with an MA in magazine journalism at Cardiff University. Now with almost seven years of experience working with GamesRadar+ on the features team, Heather helps to develop, maintain, and expand the evergreen features that exist on the site for games, as well as spearhead the Indie Spotlight series. You'll also see her contribute op-eds, interview-led features, and more. In her spare time, you'll likely find Heather tucking into RPGs and indie games, reading romance novels, and drinking lots of tea.