Star Wars: Magellan Was a AAA Action RPG Where You Could Play as a Jedi or Mandalorian

Footage has emerged of Star Wars: Magellan, a scrapped enactment RPG that fto you play arsenic either a Jedi oregon Mandalorian.

MP1st has published the archetypal publicly-seen artwork and gameplay of Magellan, sourced from the portfolio of an creator who worked connected the task astatine the now-shuttered Echtra Games.

Based successful San Francisco until its closure past year, Echtra was primitively acceptable up by erstwhile Blizzard developers and yet launched Torchlight 3 successful 2020. The institution was past bought by Zynga, though ne'er shipped different project. Now, it's been revealed that the workplace had been gathering Star Wars: Magellan, different Star Wars task acceptable to beryllium published by Zynga pursuing its arena shooter Star Wars Hunters.

Magellan looks to person had a much ambitions than Hunters, with descriptions of astatine slightest 2 playable quality classes, an NPC enslaved strategy to unlock further enactment with companions, and "shoot and loot" gameplay. Footage shows a caped Mandalorian combatant nicknamed Triggerman and a Twi'lek Jedi, each of which are referred to on-screen arsenic "The Exiled Mandalorian" and "The Hunted Jedi".

Gameplay shows the Jedi people capable to repel a unreality of laser occurrence utilizing their lightsabre, and propulsion enemies backwards utilizing Force powers. The Mandalorian character, meanwhile, tin leap and hover abbreviated distances with their jetpack, and occurrence disconnected a flamethrower. Enemies see Stormtroopers, droids and hulking mechs. And yes, determination are reddish explodable barrels.

Alas, Magellan looks to person been permanently canned erstwhile Zynga unopen down Echtra past twelvemonth — leaving the crippled rusting successful the garbage disposal of different canceled Star Wars games specified arsenic Project Ragtag, Star Wars 1313, Battlefront 3, and galore more.

At slightest there's inactive much to look guardant to elsewhere successful the Star Wars galaxy, including a promising-looking 2nd play of Ahsoka, and the Ryan Gosling-fronted Star Wars: Starfighter, some owed for motorboat adjacent year.

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