Star Wars is set to go even deeper into the world of virtual reality, with a new game focused on Darth Vader.

The untitled game, which was announced at Star Wars Celebration over the weekend, will explore new aspects of the iconic villain's past.

The Darth Vader project will be penned by David S Goyer (The Dark Knight trilogy and Call of Duty: Black Ops).

"What character is so iconic that we need to know more? [Where] we can't sleep at night and want to experience things that can't be experienced in film, or can't be experienced in a novel," Goyer said (via Entertainment Weekly).

"And we came up with… this person."

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The game will be an official story within the Star Wars universe, according to story group member Pablo Hidalgo.

Goyer explained that they were still unsure whether to call audiences "viewers" or "players".

"The world I came up with, that I'm pushing, is you are 'the visitor' - the visitor in this story that's happening around you that you may have some effect on," he continued.

"You can pick up things, you can open things, you can push things. You can walk and touch characters. Imagine being in a movie."

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He also teased other characters, adding: "It includes characters you know, or some that may have been talked about that you haven't seen before.

"We've got this incredible new storytelling platform that allows you to feel in a way you never felt before, and possibly feel for someone in a way you've never felt for them before. And it allows you to feel like you're in a real place."

The project is being made under Lucasfilm's ILMxLAB division - a mix of Industrial Light & Magic, Skywalker Sounds and the Star Wars story group.

A new Star Wars VR project, Trials on Tatooine, is being released for free for HTC Vive users on Steam today (July 18).

Meanwhile, Vader will be seen on the big screen again soon in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.

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