Amy Hennig is taking another shot at making a Star Wars game
Amy Hennig is back on the Star Wars beat. Hennig, whose Star Wars project at EA's Visceral Studios—a narrative-focused singleplayer action-adventure game codenamed «Ragtag»—was cancelled in 2017, is heading up a new Star Wars collaboration between Skydance New Media and Lucasfilm Games.
«I’ve often described how seeing Star Wars in 1977 essentially rewired my 12-year-old brain, shaping my creative life and future indelibly,» Hennig said. «I’m elated to be working with Lucasfilm Games again to tell interactive stories in this galaxy that I love.»
The announcement says the new project is a «a narrative-driven, action-adventure game featuring an original story in the Star Wars galaxy,» which to be fair sounds a lot like Ragtag as it was originally envisioned. Hennig described Visceral's Star Wars project in 2016 as «an original Star Wars story with new characters, locations, tech, creatures,» developed with an approach similar to that used during Uncharted, the PlayStation series she helmed at developer Naughty Dog up until her departure in 2014.
«If you're trying to re-create that… pulp action adventure experience, you need to deconstruct the films so you know how to reconstruct them in an interactive context as gameplay,» Hennig said at the time.
EA ultimately decided to move away from that style of game, opting for what former EA vice president Patrick Soderlund called "a broader experience that allows for more variety and player agency," which some took to mean as an open-world game, possibly with a greater focus on microtransactions. (Remember, this was right around the time that the Battlefront 2 loot box controversy was starting to blow up.) But it sounds like that original take on is what Lucasfilm is looking for:
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