Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order - 10 Things That MUST Be Included

EA's next Star Wars game HAS to work. Here's how they make it happen.

by Ewan Paterson
Disney

You don't have to play video games to understand that EA's tenure with the Star Wars license hasn't exactly been the best. To date, the publisher have only brought two Triple-A titles to market, both of which were reboots of the Star Wars: Battlefront IP, and neither game was exactly lauded, even if the latter is exhibiting the signs of a potential resurgence.

Exacerbating these issues further is the fact that EA have presided over two high-key cancellations, with Visceral Games' Project Ragtag - a single-player Star Wars title headed up by Uncharted's Amy Hennig - and EA Vancouver's Open World Project Orca both imploding during development. The potential of both those projects - combined with LucasArts' collapse and the demise of 1313 - has left many Star Wars fans rather frustrated, to the point where some have called for Disney to strip the license from EA completely.

However, a new hope could yet be on the horizon. Announced in unceremonious fashion at E3 2018, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is set to release in 2019 and is being headed up by Respawn, the studio behind the lauded Titanfall series.

Relatively little is known about the game, but it will focus on a Jedi, be set in between Episodes III and IV and be single-player. It's a clear recipe for success, but what does Fallen Order need to make it the game every Star Wars fan desperately wants?

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.