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1UP COVER STORY | WEEK OF JUNE 4 | E3 2012
Star Wars 1313 Offers a Glimpse Into the Future
Cover Story: Modern design sensibilities meet next generation technology.
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icrosoft and Sony may be holding on to their next generation hardware announcements until E3 2013, but that doesn’t mean this year’s show didn’t offer a hint of things to come. LucasArts held a behind closed doors demo of Star Wars 1313, the companies first mature foray into the iconic universe. The ambitious project is being worked on by all facets of George Lucas’ creative empire, including Skywalker Sound, Industrial Light & Magic, and Lucasfilm Animation. This internal super group of talent really proves themselves immediately upon viewing the and realizing how absolutely gorgeous it is.
The demo itself highlighted a brief scene featuring a pair of space scoundrels descending into Coruscant’s 1313, the capital planet’s notorious den of scum and villainy. Things inevitably go awry, and the pair are forced to battle through the halls of a ship as it’s slowly blasted apart. The action exudes various shades of Uncharted as your character hops between cover points, blind fires his blaster around corners, and even pulls an enemy over a low barrier for a very Drake-esque melee kill. The final moments of the demo had the protagonist shimmying across the outside of the ship and performing impossible leaps to avoid going down with the vessel. This may all seem like pretty standard stuff, but it was the presentation of George Lucas’ world that really put this game over the top.
