Star Wars: Battlefront II — director Mark Thompson digs into the Imperial single-player campaign

Mark Thompson is taking us to the Dark Side. The director for the single-player campaign of Star Wars: Battlefront II has created a story where you can play the baddies. In this story, you play as Iden Versio, an Imperial special forces commander who happens to be on Endor as the second Death Star blows up at the end of The Return of the Jedi.

I played the prelude and first two chapters of Battlefront II’s single-player campaign, and then I interviewed Thompson about it afterward. In the multiplayer version of Battlefront II, you’ll be able to play villains and heroes from every Star Wars era, including Kylo Ren, Rey, Darth Maul, Yoda, and Iden Versio. But in the single-player campaign, you are rooted in the post-Death Star explosion timeline and Versio’s story.