Star Wars writer and Uncharted director came up with the concept of Forspoken

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Forspoken, Square-Enix's mysterious new action game, comes from a conception by Star Wars: Rogue One writer Gary Whitta and Uncharted director Amy Hennig.

In a handout that was sent after yesterday's PlayStation Showcase trailer, close to of the talent behind the game was disclosed. It turns out that the game's "original construct" came from Whitta, who we spoke to last yr astir his Animal Crossing talkshow, patc Hennig "developed the write up concept in 2019 (anterior to heading Skydance New Media)" according to the handout.

If that bevy of talent wasn't decent, it's also been habitual that the committal to writing of the game is being led past Allison Rymer and Todd Stashwick, the last mentioned of whom worked with Hennig on the canceled Visceral's Star Wars game. On circus tent of the writing talent, we also ascertained some many of the cast in the game, with Star Wars Battlefront 2 actor Janina Gavankar taking connected the role of villainous Tanta Sila.

Of course of instruction, there was plenty to get excited approximately with Forspoken last night that didn't admit acquisition more than about the team hind end the game. The elaborated trailer gave us our best look yet at Transparent-Enix's fantasy universe, as well as the journey hero Frey is correct to go on. Do by yourself to that below.

With a Spring 2022 release window, the PS5 and PC game has had our oddment for some metre, merely now IT has our attending with the abundant credits list. Here's hoping the talented bunch behind the mettlesome will be able to create another masterpiece for their CVs.

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