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STAR WARS: SQUADRONS

Developer/publisher EA (Motive)

Format PC, PS4, Xbox One

Origin Canada

Release October 2

Nothing is quite so true to the spirit of Star Wars than pinching things from the past. This latest entry in EA’s oeuvre is a firstperson starfighter simulator that casts an eye back to the ’90s heyday of the and series, and centres on the giddy delight of being thrust into a dogfight – illuminated by distinctive green and red lasers that streak across the cockpit, soundtracked by angry squeals from Imperial TIE fighters’s troubled launch.

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