Space games are incredibly popular, and when one is announced, the community reacts very positively. That happened with Star Citizen, a spaceship and space life simulator that has raised more than 500 million dollars over a decade of development.
The single-player campaign of Star Citizen showcased a star-studded trailer back in 2018, featuring renowned actors like Mark Hamill, Gary Oldman, Gillian Anderson, and Liam Cunningham. Since then, fans have been eagerly anticipating this space opera.
However, its creator, Chris Roberts, claims that the game is already complete and has entered the polishing phase. Can we then say that Star Citizen is finished?
The campaign of the most anticipated game in the world is finished
After its grand trailer presentation five years ago, the developer Cloud Imperium Games (CIG) announced that Squadron 42 would be released in the summer of 2020, but as we know, that never happened. In the same year, its creator, Chris Roberts, stated that the game would be “finished when it’s finished.”
Let’s fast forward to January 2022, when Roberts confirmed that Squadron 42 was still one or two years away. Now, in October 2023, Chris Roberts has announced that the game’s campaign is finished; they are only in the final phase: polishing.
In addition to the mentioned actors, Squadron 42 also features John Rhys-Davies (Gimli from The Lord of the Rings), Mark Strong from Kingsman (who also voiced Captain Titus in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine), Ben Mendelsohn from Secret Invasion, and the ultimate geek king, Henry Cavill.
The actors completed their motion capture and voice recording back in 2015, so they have waited a long time to see the final product.
The nearly half-hour-long video showcases various elements of Squadron 42, including cinematics featuring some of the aforementioned Hollywood stars.
The big question now is when they will release Squadron 42 and whether the long wait will have been worth it. Roberts stated that those eager to play the game will be the first to know once the release date is set, “and we want to make sure Squadron 42 fulfills the promise of being this generation’s Wing Commander.”
