Lego
Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a third-person action-adventure with an open
world hub. Unlike most Lego games in which players had to advance through the
story in a linear order, players can choose to start the game from any of the
main Skywalker saga episodes and complete them in any order they wish.
Each
episode has its own hub filled with planets featured prominently in each
respective film that can be visited and explored. Each episode will have five
story missions each, a total of 45 levels.
Combat
has also been revamped, such as lightsaber fights now involving a variety of
combos with light attacks, heavy attacks, and Force moves, and blaster
characters having an over-the-shoulder camera angle featured in many
third-person shooter games.
The
games hub won’t be a single cantina, such as the one in the 2007 Complete Saga,
but a wide range of fully explorable planets equipped with many iconic star
wars landmarks. Random encounters will also happen in the game's hub. For
example, an Imperial Star Destroyer will suddenly jump out of hyperspace and
send a fleet of TIE Fighters after the player. Players can choose to engage in
dogfights with them or continue onward to progress the story.
The game will
have more than 200 playable characters, though TT Games has said that number
will change.
