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Traveller's Tales and Warner Bros. have a solid history of churning out fun LEGO romps through famous films. 1 of their more famous and successful renditions on this formula has been with the Star Wars films, which take seen a number of LEGO video game transformations over the years. With Episode IX on the horizon, the teams take decided not just to create a new game for a new film, merely a total adventure that takes players all the mode from Episode I through IX and visits the unabridged history of the Skywalker clan, from Anakin to Luke to Ben Solo (and Luke'due south protege Rey) in a family unit-friendly, LEGO-congenital universe.

A milky way far, far away

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

The saga begins...and ends

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is the latest LEGO Star Wars game, this time focusing on all nine main movies instead of one or 2. You'll play as multiple different characters across all nine movies, taking on story missions that will guide y'all through the full story in a galaxy far, far abroad that only so happens to be made entirely of LEGO bricks!

Nosotros still have some time before The Skywalker Saga arrives, but for now, here'due south everything we know about the coming game:

What is LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga?

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a comprehensive LEGO game set up in the universe of the Star Wars films that follows the story of all ix chief films. Though there have been LEGO games based on Star Wars films earlier, this is non only a mash-upwardly of those games. This is an entirely new adventure with different missions, sidequests, and story focuses than we've seen before.

How exercise yous play?

We oasis't seen a lot of gameplay just yet from The Skywalker Saga, but a scattering of previews and trailers take revealed a bit about what to expect. In most ways, it will play like other LEGO games where players command LEGO versions of Star Wars characters in a LEGO globe, with the power to collaborate with things not just through normal gainsay but also through use of LEGO bricks. You lot'll progress through quests based on the stories from the Star Wars films, as well as do semi-related sidequests, of which in that location are manifestly over 500.

Players will be able to select which moving picture to play through first, with five main levels playable for each movie. There is reportedly a focus on picture show scenes that weren't turned into levels for other LEGO Star Wars games already, and you won't just exist doing movie-focused activities -- there will exist a number of other, more full general activities in the universe also.

Finally, even though you'll exist selecting one film to play through at a time, you'll be able to revisit planets you've been to in other flick'due south stories. We haven't gotten details yet on exactly how that works, but it sounds like you won't be entirely on rails with the game'southward story.

What's different from previous LEGO Star Wars games?

Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga (Image credit: WB Games)

Bated from containing ix Star Wars moving-picture show stories in one game, there are a number of smaller, subtler adjustments to the traditional gameplay of LEGO Star Wars games that have been reported in The Skywalker Saga. Kotaku illustrates a number of them in swell detail, simply to summarize the main differences:

The camera angle is closer to the character and behind-the-back
The photographic camera tin can be freely controlled with the right analog stick
Gainsay is more than circuitous, with light, heavy, and force attacks allowing for combos and other more than interesting types of fighting
More things are made with LEGOs than in mayhap any other LEGO game, with everything rendered equally if it is entirely LEGO
The game allows you to hop from sidequest to sidequest without losing progress -- something that hasn't been possible in some other LEGO games

What movies' stories are included in Skywalker Saga?

A whopping nine movies' stories will be included in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, all telling the story of the Skywalker clan from episodes one-nine. They are:

The Phantom Menace (1999)
Attack of the Clones (2002)
Revenge of the Sith (2005)
A New Hope (1977)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
The Force Awakens (2015)
The Last Jedi (2017)
The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Yes, that means the ninth, as-all the same-unreleased Star Wars movie volition likewise be included!

Tin I play with friends?

Yes! Just similar previous LEGO games, The Skywalker Saga volition support local co-op. No word nevertheless on whether online play with friends will be possible.

When tin I go information technology?

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is planned for launch sometime in 2020. It volition price $sixty.

A galaxy far, far away

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga

The saga begins...and ends

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is the latest LEGO Star Wars game, this time focusing on all 9 main movies instead of ane or 2. You'll play as multiple different characters across all 9 movies, taking on story missions that will guide you through the total story in a milky way far, far away that just so happens to be fabricated entirely of LEGO bricks!