Hollywood actors including Harry Potter ‘s Gary Oldman, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back ‘s Mark Hamill, Sliders ‘ John Rhys-Davies, Eastenders ‘ Craig Fairbrass, and GILLIAN CHUFFING ANDERSON are lending their voices and faces to Squardron 42, the single-player side of Hollywood actors includingHarry Potter‘s Gary Oldman,Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back‘s Mark Hamill,Sliders‘ John Rhys-Davies, Volume ‘s Andy Serkis,Eastenders‘ Craig Fairbrass, and GILLIAN CHUFFING ANDERSON are lending their voices and faces to Squardron 42, the single-player side of Star Citizen official site ].

Creator Chris Roberts’s years in Hollywood may not have produced much of note, but his crowdfunded space ‘em up has let him pull together a pret-ty swish cast. Fresh from his debut at the CitizenCon shindig over the weekend, here’s an eerie virtual Gary Oldman spouting jingoism as a space-American:



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Yes, but what about Gillian Anderson? The teases.

Squadron 42 is to be a single-player campaign starring a rookie pilot aboard a vast capital ship, split between social-y ship side, spaceship pew-pew, and on-foot FPS action. It’s due next year, but CitizenCon showed a bit of a work-in-progress version with a live demo. Bafflingly, a fair bit of their video footage of that is recorded off screens over the audience’s shoulders like a leaked Avengers trailer:



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Also at CitizenCon was a bit of Star Citizen’s alpha 2.0. Developers Cloud Imperium Games whipped together the following video with gameplay snippets, which mostly look a bit dull and janky except for the neat bit where the player is pottering about the bridge of a ship their pal is piloting:



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The full CitizenCon presentation is also archived, if you want to see the whole shebang in full livery: