Star Wars: Hunters

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Star Wars: Hunters
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Developer(s) Zynga
NaturalMotion
Publisher(s) Zynga
Composer(s) Gordy Haab
Series Star Wars
Engine Unreal Engine [1]
Platform(s)
ReleaseJune 4, 2024 [2]
Genre(s) Action game
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Star Wars: Hunters is a free-to-play player-vs-player competitive arena combat game developed by Zynga for Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android, and released on June 4, 2024. [3] [4] The game takes place after the fall of the Galactic Empire, featuring a new cast of characters including bounty hunters, rebellion heroes and imperial stormtroopers.

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Gameplay

Star Wars: Hunters is a squad-based arena shooter. Set between the events of Episode VI and Episode VII , players fight in settings inspired by Star Wars locations. [5] The game features a diverse set of characters including a Wookiee warrior, a Dark Side Force user, a bounty hunter, and an Imperial Stormtrooper. [6]

Development

On August 18, 2018, Zynga and Disney brokered a deal for a Star Wars game on mobile to be developed by Zynga and its subsidiary NaturalMotion. [7] Star Wars: Hunters was formally announced during the Nintendo Direct presentation on February 17, 2021 with a teaser trailer with initial plans to release the game by the end of 2021. [8] [5] The first gameplay footage was shown off in September 2021 after during an Apple Event while showcasing the iPad Mini. A cinematic trailer was released shortly after depicting some of the characters featured in the game, including the Sith warrior, Rieve and Mandalorian, Aran Tal. [9]

In late 2021, Star Wars: Hunters was soft-launched on Android devices in India, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, New Zealand, Australia, and Indonesia. [10] Despite this, on July 18, 2022, Zynga announced that the official release of Star Wars: Hunters would be delayed until 2023. [11] [12] However, the game did not release, and on November 8, 2023, Zynga's parent company, Take-Two Interactive, announced during its quarterly earnings call that Star Wars: Hunters had been once again delayed and is now scheduled to release in 2024. [13] [14]

A tech demo of Hunters was shown at Game Developers Conference 2024's State of Unreal, confirming that the game will run on an unspecified iteration of the Unreal Engine. [1] Weeks later, Zynga announced that the game would finally launch on June 4, after multiple delays. [2]

Reception

Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the game a score of 57 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. [15]

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