Star Wars Zero Company is the following big-ticket video game set in a galaxy far, far away. It is out subsequent week, and on Monday writer EA shared a brand new, remaining trailer for the turn-based ways sport forward of its launch. The trailer consists of photographs from cutscenes and of its XCOM-like gameplay, however followers had been extra excited that the trailer confirmed the return of one in every of their favourite characters.
At across the 1:45-minute mark of the beneath trailer, Captain Rex, clad in his iconic helmet and armor, makes a cameo look. He is solely on display screen for a short second, however that was sufficient to get Star Wars followers hyped. “REX! MY BROTHER! MY BOY! MY LAD!” reads one of many prime feedback on YouTube.
Captain Rex debuted within the 2008 The Clone Wars movie forward of its animated sequence follow-up, serving primarily alongside Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano. He is been a staple of Star Wars media about that seminal battle, and has been a featured participant in later sequence like Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars: The Unhealthy Batch.
Rex, like all clone troopers within the animated reveals, has been voiced by Dee Bradley Baker. We knew Baker could be in Zero Firm after the stacked cast was fully revealed last month, however he was solely confirmed to be voicing a unique clone trooper, Trick. As such, it is not clear how a lot of a job Rex could have within the sport, or if Baker can be voicing every other shock clones. Anakin will also be popping up in Star Wars Zero Company, however how a lot of a job he’ll must play can be unknown. Zero Firm primarily follows a bunch of misfits covertly working with the Galactic Republic.
Star Wars Zero Firm has been described as “Star Wars XCOM” and, after 10 hours with it, that moniker rings true. “It is shaping as much as be the perfect model of XCOM-style squad-based ways but,” Polygon’s Josh Broadwell wrote in his preview. You will not have to attend too lengthy to test it out for your self: Star Wars Zero Firm can be launched Aug. 27 for $49.99 on Home windows PC and $59.99 on PS5 and Xbox Sequence X.