Star Wars: Squadrons Single-Player Review

Star Wars: Squadrons' single-player campaign reviewed on PC by Tom Marks, also available on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Squadrons is also available in VR on PC and with PSVR, and an Oculus Quest with a link cable was used for this review.

Squadrons doesn't end up doing anything too memorable with its charming characters or interesting rival squadron setup, but this campaign still tells an entertaining story and its flight controls hit a sweet spot between accessibility and nuance - all made even better by VR and HOTAS support.

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[fluffyduck]

No riding horses on star destroyer - 0/10.

[jollyrioger]

All my training flying a Cessna 152 in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 has led me to this day.

[AngelXO]

Love seeing how useless the empire is without Palpatine, every officer stepping over the other to assume leadership and in doing so making it easy for a United New Republic, makes sense how the empire fell so quickly despite having the numbers.

[noahlehman]

I would love to see more games like this but more focused on story. I’ve always wished we could get a Clone Wars version of Rogue Squadron.

[sixcarboncompound]

The VR bit is totally true. VR and space ships are a match made in heaven. I honestly can't even play Elite or NMS without my HTC Vive anymore.

[charlieni]

The game is directed by Ian Fraizer who is an RPG nerd who previously designed Kingdom of Amalur. I was wondering if his experience and sensibility in the genre would translate to this game. Guess it does in some charming ways.

[TheDriver]

Just realized this guy sounds like grown up Carl Wheezer.

[seoulglo]

"It's not too far off from the classic '90s X-Wing and Tie Fighter Games."

That's all I needed to know!

[Wolfdragon]

The single player feels like Rogue Squadron crossed with Star Wars Trilogy Arcade. I really like it!!!

[crazybeibifeit]

3:03 when you record the VO of a review and step on your dog's chewing toy

[sorcerous]

When u see the classic formula from old starfighter games make a return

"Ive been looking forward to this"

[dungeonguy]

I mean, an 8 is pretty solid for a story mode in a game that's more about the PVP modes.

[alexsumi]

People need to understand this isn’t gonna be Battlefront 3 before they play this game. Give it a chance to be it’s own thing 🙄

[Natetendo]

Why is it that every new Star Wars character looks like the person taking my order at Star Bucks?

[marlbear]

This guy sounds like he dresses up as a storm trooper at the weekends

[QuinchGaming]

About what I expected and I'm happy with that. Firstly its a relatively cheap game but also I feel the single player "campaign" is there mainly to make sure players know the mechanics of the game and are familiar with each ship type as much as possible. Frankly, I think 10hrs is excellent.

[SabirMixy]

The New Republic secret weapon : The Starhawk. Here we see a cannon backstory for the capital ship !

[Mrgokujr]

2:26 Who is that actress? She sounds so familiar, but I can't remember where I've heard her from.

EDIT: ALLISON SCAGLIOTTI!!! From "Drake and Josh" and "Warehouse 13!" It just came back to me lol.

[ghostsouls]

I'm so playing the story in VR, already have my PSVR already set up

[jsrocker]

All my training in Lego Star Wars has led me to this.