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[TheVoidDragon]

None of these look like they belong in Star Wars at all, it's like the completely misunderstood what Star Wars is and went for a generic modern advanced/futuristic alien sci-fi setting instead.

 

[A-V-B]

Masahiro Ito's Star Wars

 

[VlaudTheImpaler]

Remove the "Star Wars" name from them and put it in witness protection and I'd be in.

 

[Slime]

yikes

yikes

yikes

 

[Kayhan]

These are very cool.

 

[Madness]

Star Wars 1313 was the one game I was really hyped for. Loved that it was to be set on Coruscant.

 

[FusedAtoms]

I feel like this perfectly exemplifies what's wrong with a lot of star wars designs in other games and movies outside of the OT and it's the overuse of the older imagery rather than making new designs that fit in with the pre established universe.

 

[Zomba13]

I feel that those weird stormtrooper helmets would fit and make sense if it was stormtroopers of different races. We only really ever see humans (or human shape people) wear them.

 

[5taquitos]

Pretty bad, guess this game didn't get made for a reason.

 

[D i Z]

Those Trooper designs look like the premise was to put other species and not just clones under the hood. The unifying motif's just don't hold up at all though.

 

[DesertFox]

Couldn't help but be reminded of a certain game I've played...

 

[DiipuSurotu]

Maybe they're non-human Stormtroopers and that's why they need weird-ass helmets to accommodate their heads?

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Looks awful.

 

[Fliesen]

no offense, but most of it looks like barf. :/

 

[MilkyJoe]

Looks at the concept art - No thanks...

 

[Patryn]

The second set does not read Star Wars to me at all. It more reads as a fantasy game.

 

[JonnyDBrit]

At least on the Stormtrooper front, I kinda get like the vague sense that it was maybe meant to be a game based on the Empire's attempts to chart the Unknown Regions?

For those unfamiliar, in Star Wars the 'Unknown Regions' are areas of space that are minimally understood at best, and otherwise largely unknown in terms of what's simply there - hence the name. The largest chunk of it is in what's considered the 'galactic west' (as in, the left side of any map of the Star Wars galaxy), and in the old EU it was a common favourite for writers who wanted to introduce some weird shit. It was also a favourite place to have Imperials that were away from the action of the Galactic Civil War proper, owing to Timothy Zahn applying such an explanation to the fairly beloved character of Admiral Thrawn.

So yeah, that art reads to me like Stormtroopers stationed in the Unknown Regions, recruiting species that no-one back home has ever seen before, and fighting monsters that freak them the fuck out. Wonder if Mnggal-Mnggal would have appeared at one point.

 

[Bishop89]

Some of the designs remind me of warframe.

 

[SlipperyFishes]

Is it?

The O I I markings on the armour are small details that prove that it is.

 

[Disagree Guy]

These are very cool.

I'm no aficionado for art or whatever but if someone drew or created these (rather than super imposing the images onto a photo of a real landscape) then I am very very impressed.....

 

[HighResTomato]

Seems cools tho

 

[DoubleYou]

Is there a way to unsee those Stormtroopers?

 

[OfTheOverflow]

Seems like some pretty imaginative concepts, would have loved to see their fruition. Perhaps once Disney's comfortable with their soft rebooting then we can see something similarly out-there from EA (perhaps even another publisher once their exclusivity lapses).

 

[runnin_blue]

Star Wars: Gundam

 

[Monocle]

The armor in the first batch resembles fanart where someone tries to combine classic trooper aesthetics with some type of cultural influence. A super cookie cutter concept design approach. That style is all wrong for Star Wars, but could be cool in a totally unrelated game.

Those monsters are in line with what you'd expect from Huante. There's nothing Star Warsey about them at all.

A neat peek behind the scenes, but any decent art director would reject all this stuff in a hot second.

 

[Yarbskoo]

Those stormtroopers are just silly.