It’s not as if the fandom really behaved themselves while streaming in to haunt the Twitter space for real and discussing all forms of incantation! Expected in 2026 for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox, Star Wars Zero Company is a tactical game in the Star Wars-verse-pushed by another year of delay made even worse by these images-and much-needed reprieve from the tactical gameplay.
The expectation must now be of bare speculation regarding the hallowed grounds of Star Wars Zero Company with such huge development involvement of EA, Respawn, et al., and with these first 4K screenshots almost certainly making the wait heavier could very well ruin the party for some waiting till now.
The beautiful screenshots really appreciated by the official tweet are all over online-witness the eyeful level of detail in terms of the visuals and environment, and what seems to be a combination of ground and space combat!
But no details known regarding the “gameplay.” Next-generation serious art, a mix of the classic Star Wars look and feel with today’s graphical fidelity. And let’s be real anything carrying the Respawn label sets the bar high with previous titles Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor.
A tweet like this would usually be filled with responses from hype to skepticism to memes, etc. Weirdly enough, there aren’t any comments on that tweet. Maybe everyone’s busy zooming in on the screenshots? Or perhaps the 2026 release date put people in “I care when it’s closer” mode? Either way, it’s a gloomy forecast in the far Star Wars landscape.
But there are very few flies anywhere near the hopes-actually-feverish ones-holding his fans up. The Star Wars strategy games have been something of a formula for counter-culture-ask anybody from the old-school Empire at War crowd-and being co-developed by XCOM veterans Bit Reactor, this tactical fix has much to offer. With EA, the big budgets hopefully mean less microtransaction nightmares.
What then remains of the negotiations? I mean what, strategies are in play? Real-time? Turned-based? Both? In any case, is it traversing an existing one or is one meant to draw its own history? Which, let’s face it, is all very far-off; the other hand, once-in-a-while little clues from Respawn and Bit Reactor start dropping, the hype-train surely will start way earlier.
So there we go, those screens and speculation all over, but nice to see anyhow.
