Star Wars Jedi:
Fallen Order Review

Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019) is a fighting-adventure game set five years after Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and 14 years before Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope. Young Jedi Padawan Cal Kestis is hunted through the galaxy by the Galactic Empire, whilst trying to complete his Jedi training and restore the now wiped out Jedi Order.

You navigate different worlds, encountering different enemies and taking on a range of missions. It plays similarly to the Batman Arkham games, with hard-hitting tactical combat being matched with traversal. Like that game, Fallen Order is an open rather than open-world game, where you unlock more areas to explore as you progress.

The fighting is largely tactical lightsaber fights. Enemies include imperial soldiers, indigenous animals and sci-fi creatures. You improve your fighting abilities as the stories progress and work through a detailed skill tree.

It's a hard game, although not as unforgiving as Dark Souls, but there are difficulty settings that you can use to make the experience more manageable.

Our examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order 3 years ago. It was re-examined by Ben Kendall and updated 8 months ago.