New Star Wars game is Project Ragtag revival set during original trilogy claim sources

metro.co.uk:

It seems Amy Hennig’s new Star Wars game may not just be similar to her previously cancelled EA project but essentially the same game.

When Lucasfilm announced a new Star Wars game by Uncharted creator Amy Hennig earlier in the week they said almost nothing about it, just that it’ll be a ‘richly cinematic action adventure game’.

The assumption was that it would be similar to the cancelled Star Wars title Hennig was working on at EA, codenamed Project Ragtag, but now it seems it may be exactly the same project, just at a different company.

Although EA likely owns any code created for the game Lucasfilm Games will have retained the rights to anything relating to Star Wars itself. Although since companies aren’t in a habit of sharing their legal arrangements, it could be that Lucasfilm gets everything – or has decided to buy it off EA.

Rumours already suggest that the new game (or new version of the same game) is called Project Walton and that it is set during the original trilogy of movies. By comparison, Project Ragtag was going to be set just prior to The Empire Strikes Back.

A lot of information has leaked out about Ragtag over the years and even more is emerging now, so depending on how much is being changed it may already be possible to piece together what the new game is.

The suggestion that Walton is a ‘revival’ of Ragtag comes from leaker AccountNgt, who previously proved themselves by leaking news of Star Wars Eclipse early. They first shared their news with website DualShockers, although the certainty with which they state it’s a revival differs between the article and the original tweet.

Although the similarity to Ragtag remains in question Star Wars fansite Making Star Wars has offered a synopsis of the original