LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga gets release date and new overview trailer

After what seemed like a long wait, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga According to Warner Bros. Games, TT Games, The Lego Group and Lucasfilm, the final release will be April 5.

In addition to today’s release date, a new gameplay overview trailer has been released to give you a fresh look at the long-awaited game. It provides insight into gameplay, combat mechanics, characters and character classes, vast galaxies, and more.

Coming to Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC, this game lets you relive the story of all nine films in Skywalker Saga, and it all starts with choosing three of your choice The part begins the journey.

When fighting in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, you’ll be able to chain different attacks together to form combos and defend against oncoming attacks. The game features new blaster controls and mechanics that allow you to precisely aim and take cover to figure out your next move or harness your Jedi skills with a lightsaber and the Force.

Exploring the universe sounds pretty easy thanks to a galaxy map on a holographic projector. You can use it to chart your saga route, gradually unlocking planets to explore. During space travel, you can dogfight with enemy ships, pilot vehicles like the Millennium Falcon, Imperial TIE fighters, Rebel X-Wings, and more. Once at your destination, you can choose to continue the main story, or explore and discover other quest puzzles in the galaxy.

You’ll be rewarded as you explore Kyber bricks that unlock new features and upgrades across a range of character classes. These include Jedi, heroes, dark side, villains, scavengers, villains, bounty hunters, astro-machine droids and protocol droids. You can play as Princess Leia, Yoda, Boba Fett, Darth Maul, Poe, and more in free-to-play mode with over 300 unlockable characters from all nine films.

The trailer also revealed that the game will feature a Mumble mode, an option that fans of the classic LEGO Star Wars game can toggle to replace all sounds with Mumble.

Originally slated for an October 2020 release, the game was pushed back to 2021. During the 2020 Gamescom Opening Night Live, it was announced that the game will be released in Q1/Q2 2021. But in April last year, it was announced that the game had been delayed again until early 2022.

The game is available for pre-order now, and doing so will allow early access to the Trooper Character Pack on launch day. The pack will be available to users who purchase the Character Collection (a season pass containing all seven character packs) or a la carte one month after release.

Digital buyers can also unlock Classic Obi-Wan Kenobi playable characters that cannot be purchased a la carte. The physical edition of the Deluxe Edition will include an exclusive LEGO Star Wars minifigure Luke Skywalker and Blue Milk.