The animations have also gotten a facelift, giving Cal more natural movement as he clambers and flips around environments - it reminded me of a more experienced Luke Skywalker hopping around Dagobah in Empire Strikes Back, which is fitting in Jedi: Survivor as Cal enters his own grimmer season with half a decade of fighting the Empire under his belt. The new game seems prettier than its predecessor, with sharper graphics and lighting effects. After dropping a zipline or tree trunk conveniently placed before a tough segment, when I got killed by a challenging mini-boss and revived at a nearby meditation circle, I was never more than 30 seconds away from having another go at the enemy. As I worked my way to the settlement, battling territorial aliens, raiders and the Separatist battle droids they'd marshaled into service, it was obvious that Respawn had carefully reintegrated shortcuts so players wouldn't miss cutting down travel time. It's clear that the past five years have not been good to Cal, and he's coming to this distant world to get help from Greez, the Mantis' original pilot, who supposedly runs a saloon in a frontier settlement.ĭusty rocks and scrub fauna make Koboh feel like it's set in a western film, with humble prospectors living under threat of a local gang of raiders. My hands-on segment started early in the game, when Cal and BD-1 - flying the ship from the first game, The Mantis, alone - make an emergency landing on the not-quite-a-desert planet Koboh to make some repairs. EA / Respawn Jedi: Survivor hands-on first impressions Star Wars Jedi: Survivor releases on April 28, 2023.
These new customization options populate all the chests scattered throughout the planets Cal visits, and you can buy them in shops. You can even tag these beacons through a new first-person surveying mode, where Cal essentially uses BD-1 as a pair of binoculars.Ĭustomization has also been overhauled, allowing you to switch out Cal's entire outfit (including swapping out hairstyles and beard trims) as well as BD-1's various parts and lightsaber components, all in a cleaner interface than the last game. The map has also been upgraded with more information, including a trail showing the player's previous path and the ability to set "beacons" in a variety of colors. There's also a new mind-trick ability called Confuse, which can temporarily convert enemies to fight for you.Įxplorers and completionists can breathe a sigh of relief, as Jedi: Survivor has fast travel, allowing you to teleport between meditation circles.
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Instead of slowing a single enemy, it slows everyone in a radius around Cal, giving players a moment to breathe or get a flurry of free hits in. While his Push and Pull abilities return, his Slow has been shifted from a regular power drawing on Force energy to a super ability that takes time to charge up. Some are simple boosts to health and Force to fuel Cal's Jedi powers, but each stance has its own skill progression with neat new tricks - one let me automatically deflect incoming blaster bolts by spinning my double-bladed lightsaber in a circle, while another let me slash with two sabers and quickly dash back.Ĭal's Jedi powers have gotten tweaked, too. The skill tree has been greatly expanded, giving players more moves and abilities to pick up through the game. "We have all these different moves you can get in the game," Asmussen said, noting that the added stances and lightsaber moves improve "how those things can chain together and create dramatic and challenging scenarios for the player." (Respawn gave us a sneak peek at the last two styles by letting a fairly talented developer carve through squads of stormtroopers in a combat demonstration - and the blaster-and-lightsaber combo looked fun.) While I only got hands-on time with the first three stances, they're varied enough to find favorites.
Players can only equip two stances at a time, but they can be switched out at any meditation circle (the game's save points) or workbench, which are plentiful throughout the planets players visit.
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