{"id":91008,"date":"2026-10-12T07:57:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T11:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91008"},"modified":"2026-10-12T08:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T12:43:24","slug":"the-new-squadron-42-trailer-looks-great-but-that-2027-release-date-is-hard-to-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91008","title":{"rendered":"The New Squadron 42 Trailer Looks Great, But That 2027 Release Date Is Hard To Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/star-citizen\/\">Star Citizen<\/a>&#8216;s single-player mode, Squadron 42, has made a reappearance with a new trailer showing off the mode&#8217;s impressive cast and\u00a0interstellar warfare. In development for 12 years, the ambitious mode blends outer space dogfighting and first-person action, set during an era when hostile alien forces have pushed humanity to the brink of defeat. As a rising star in the United Empire of Earth Navy, players must push back the invaders and save the day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new trailer is the best look yet at the mode and the many, <em>many <\/em>actors who play various characters in the story mode. From Mark Hamill (who knows a thing or two about space combat) to Gary Oldman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/star-citizens-celebrity-filled-squadron-42-gets-tentative-2026-date\/1100-6527298\/\">the rest of the cast<\/a> also includes Gillian Anderson, Ben Mendelsohn, Henry Cavill, Andy Serkis, John Rhys-Davies, Rhona Mitra, and more famous faces in the mix. For the player characters, Ian Duncan (Broken News) plays the male player\u00a0character, while Alix Wilton Regan (the new face and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/new-lara-croft-actor-discusses-her-take-on-the-character-no-laras-left-behind\/1100-6538434\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">voice of Tomb Raider games<\/a>) portrays the female player character.<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/i4rVtLAenmk  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With development being led by Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts at Cloud Imperium Games, the trailer includes a healthy mix of cinematics and gameplay, showing off on-foot sections,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Citizen&#8216;s single-player mode, Squadron 42, has made a reappearance with a new trailer showing off the mode&#8217;s impressive cast and\u00a0interstellar warfare. In development for 12 years, the ambitious mode blends outer space dogfighting and first-person action, set during an era when hostile alien forces have pushed humanity to the brink of defeat. As a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":91010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91008"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91008"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91011,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91008\/revisions\/91011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}