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STRIKE US DOWN

Execute Order 66.” That command given by the Emperor, truly lost to the Dark Side, in Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith is, whatever you  think of the prequel trilogy, pivotal. You really feel the swift shift from one era to the next. The era when the Jedi flourished immediately gives way to one when they’ve been struck down. The Jedi Order, fallen. And it’s here, at the darkest point in the Star Wars mythos that Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is set. In many ways, it’s the perfect era to carve a videogame-shaped hole into.

“YOU’RE BEING HUNTED […] YOU’RE BASICALLY AN ENEMY OF THE STATE.”

“It actually was pretty early on,” Steve Blank, director of franchise content and strategy at Lucasfilm, tells us when we ask at what point the setting was chosen. The team at Lucasfilm are closely working with

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