Five years after Visceral Games’ closure spelled the end of Amy Hennig’s first attempt at a Star Wars game, the director best-known for her work on Uncharted is trying again, this time at Skydance Media.Skydance Media announced today that Hennig is working on a brand-new game set in the Star Wars universe. Little is known about the new project save that it will be a “richly cinematic action-adventure game featuring an original story” set in the Star Wars galaxy.Every Star Wars Game in DevelopmentHennig’s new Star Wars game is her second project at Skydance New Media, where she is also working on a “completely original” game set in the Marvel universe. Hennig first joined Skydance Media in 2019, where she started a new division based around “story-focused experiences [that] will employ state-of-the-art computer graphics to provide the visual fidelity of television and film, but with an active, lean-in experience that puts the audience in the driver’s seat”.Hennig was previously employed at EA, where she was working on an unnamed Star Wars project known as Project Ragtag. The project was said to be in the style of the Uncharted series, but was delayed and finally canceled as EA shuttered Visceral Games and sought to move the project in a different direction. Reports from Kotaku painted a picture of an ambitious title that was nevertheless at odds with EA’s direction at the time. EA would later release a single-player Star Wars game of its own in Jedi: Fallen Order.Hennig’s project joins a raft of Star Wars titles from developers including EA, Ubisoft, and Quantic Dream. The new projects come in the wake of Disney reviving Lucasfilm Games and expanding the license after years of EA exclusivity. Earlier this month, TT Games released LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, which we described as a rollicking reimagining of Star Wars’ most iconic moments.Hennig’s Star Wars game does not yet have a release date. Kat Bailey is a Senior News Editor at IGN as well as co-host of Nintendo Voice Chat. Have a tip? Send her a DM at @the_katbot.
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