Vader Immortal Episode One Trailer, New Details Arrive (SWCC 2019)

Announced back in September 2018, Vader Immortal: A VR Series got its own panel at Celebration Chicago 2019, offering up a trailer and some new details about the experience. Vader Immortal is about a smuggler who gets pulled into Vader’s nefarious schemes on Mustafar, finding out they have Force sensitivity in the process. Focusing mostly on the first episode of the series, the panel revealed the series ties into events from the Secrets of the Empire VR experience (the ancient saber?), while some hints about its story reside in the final arc of last year’s Darth Vader – Dark Lord of the Sith, “Fortress Vader,” where structures were seen hidden far beneath Vader’s Castle, which I believe players will visit as the trailer seems to show a visit to ancient ruins. Players will be joined by your expected funny droid companion, ZOE3, and she’s played by Maya Rudolph (!) so you know she’ll be funny, while interactions will be aplenty with Mustafarians, hence the exploration of deep, dark corners of Mustafar; I was dying to see under their helmets in the Vader comic, and now they have been unmasked! The first episode will be focused on lightsaber combat and training you with the basics, with Episode II to include Force powers, but Episode I‘s training dojo will be something you can play endlessly even once the episode is over. The VR series is still set to premiere with Oculus Quest, the untethered, cheaper Oculus, this spring, but no concrete release date was announced. Check out some screenshots below and head over to the official site for more details.

I’m hoping to get to play this when I hit the show floor on Monday, and if so, I’ll have a different post up with impressions from the experience. Here are some images from the official site, including a poster!