Are you ready for a brand new take on "Star Wars?" Because today, Disney Interactive and LucasArts launch a mobile game that allows you to take on the roles of Han Solo, Luke Skywalker and more as part of "Star Wars: Assault Team."
You can watch the exclusive story trailer right here, right now. But in advance of the game's release on iOS, Android, and Windows Devices, MTV News talked to Chris Aylott, lead designer for the game, and Studio Director Janus Anderson about how the game came to be.
"Chris and I have a long history of making clickable card games," Anderson said over the phone. "We heard we got 'Star Wars' at Disney, and when it came available for us to make a game around, that was the very first thing I started pitching."
The game itself is set in the time period between "A New Hope" and "Empire Strikes Back." Meaning Luke has blown up the Death Star, but we're not on the ice planet Hoth just yet.
Part of the reason for this setting was the limitations of not being able to continue the story post-"Return of the Jedi" for obvious, "Episode VII" related reasons. But it was also a favorite time period for the team at Disney.
"While we're fans of the whole universe," Aylott noted, "it was that first trilogy that hit us between the eyes and turned us into fans in the first place."
When it came time to choose a specific time period for the all original game story, the designers realized the area between ...
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