Star Wars: Battlefront II’s ‘The Last Jedi’ update introduces ‘old’ Iden

I’m seeing Star Wars: The Last Jedi tonight, and that means that it’s time for all of the related video game products to launch their live events to celebrate the release of the latest entry in the Skywalker saga. Electronic Arts’ Battlefront II shooter is no different, and its Last Jedi event introduces new multiplayer content, such as the former stormtrooper Finn as a playable hero. But this is the update that also finishes out the single-player campaign’s narrative by following an aging Iden Versio during the timeline of the latest trilogy, and it rules that I’m getting to play as a somewhat elderly woman in a big-budget action game.

The first few minutes of Iden’s continuing adventures kick off with cutscenes that reveal a gray-haired Iden. She has built a life for herself after the collapse of the Empire, and that includes a family linked both by blood and by battlefield camaraderie. It’s awesome to see this matriarchal figure take a central role in a big game from publisher Electronic Arts, and I hope they don’t kill her.