Ubisoft has debuted an enormous 10 minute gameplay demo of Star Wars Outlaws, and it looks legitimately incredible. The demo starts out by introducing protagonist Kay Vess and her adorable companion Nix, as the pair sneak out of a restricted area with an important relic. You can order Nix to assist you, as demonstrated in the beginning of the demo.
Eventually things go afoul, and a gunfight breaks out. Kay jumps on a Speeder and escapes into the open world, but not before an intense chase takes place. Later, the heroine is added to an intergalactic wanted list, and so she takes to the sky, No Man’s Sky-style, before engaging in a little more space combat.
This was easily one of the best demonstrations of the week, illustrating pretty tremendous scale and ambition. Whether developer Massive Entertainment can stick the landing is up for debate, and we’re still a little concerned by the letterboxed perspective, but overall we’re incredibly impressed by this first showing.
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I'll be buying it. Looks amazing. Graphics look wicked. Game play looks cool. Can't wait.
New more Star Wars stuff! Good Star Wars stuff!
Looks like a typical action adventure game with a star wars skin and sound pack.
Im not really a Star Wars fan, but damn this looks incredible.
But then again, don't trust what you see.
It looks good and has promise but felt like it was Uncharted with a Star Wars skin.
This looks like Uncharted and Red Dead had a baby on Tattoine and I'm loving it.
I thought it looked very impressive and a lot of fun. I loved the seamlessness of it all. Lots of potential in this one.
This is exactly what every Star Wars fan wants!
So I guess we're very liberally using "mind-blowing" nowadays, huh?
This looks impressive and fun! Will likely pick this up at some point.
You must have watched a different trailer than me, because what I saw was a generic looking modern action game with annoying dialog.
I think it was great, very engaging and full of possibilities. I will play it day one!!
@TripleEyeGaming All three of your eyes aren't working.
Ubisoft is the king at showing off good looking games to only fool the consumer when it releases.. this is def a wait and see
The Heroine looks very bland but since it's an open world UBI game I'm certain we'll get a bunch of cool looking outfits so I'm not to worry. I'm in hope there is a performance mode because this demo was 60fps but wasn't on PS5
It looks good. Less ambitious than Starfield but coming with Star Wars charm and obviously arriving on PS5.
Oh there is it again, the mindblowing, incredible awesome, ridiculous 😁
But yeah, that main character is so effin cool and refreshing. Might be one of the best ones in general out there, and especially in comparison to generic douche Kal of course.
Plus, space combat included, looks so much better than Jedi Survivor
@Intr1n5ic 🤣🤣🤣
This better not be another beyond good and evil wait as this looks great
@Chaotic_Goat
Indeed, this wasn’t PS5 footage. I hope it was Xbox footage so PS5 is comparable. But i think it is PC
Mind blowing? I thought it looked really bad to be honest, the lead feels very generic and another "Aloy" type character i'm getting tired with. Gameplay looked very bland and the planet shown looks exactly like the main planet in Jedi Survivor what i grew very sick off by Platinum completion.
@PocketHotDogs
I came here to say that, maybe a bit more Horizon though
@Grimwood Cal is far better then the Aloy clone in this game in my opinion, he actually feels like a person with depth while this new character feels like a focus group designed her.
@WallyWest we saw mere minutes of her
Fully expecting a Ubisoft graphic downgrade for the full release, still, day one
@WallyWest Gameplay looks better than Starfield, from the on foot combat to the ship fighting. Looks better visually too.
Sorry not sorry.
Maybe you don't like women personalities like most male gamers do. They just want a curvy mute female lead.
Sorry not sorry.
Uncharted in space - nice!
Game looks great. Looks like they put a little more investment into this one vs avatar (same studio right?) visually.
We have to wait until release since it's ubisoft, but hopefully this, avatar and mirage are good and we see Ubisoft make a Capcom style comeback.
@WallyWest I was just talking about the look. Most unique look for a female character in a while. Kal looks like literally any generic dude in games ever. Can't say anything about the depth yet obviously.
Might be one of the advantages of Ubisoft because she looks very European (and real)
First the amazing Jedi: Survivor and now this. Looks like we need the remake of Knights of the Old Republic less and less!
I'm liking the look of this. Here's hoping that Kay Vess is more Kassandra than Frey.
I love the Star Wars font that pops up when you complete a mission.
Yeah this looks excellent.
The music is also suitably Star Wars, another one for the list.
this looks great, hopefully they deliver
Wow. Doesn't look half bad does it?
And they let you fly the ship 😌
I'm not sure I want another big expansive game on my list, but I'll keep this on my radar at least.
I have a feeling that if a female protagonist had on a skimpier outfit and had bigger assets we would never have to read this type of comment from anyone.
That being said most female protagonist characters are just honorary dudes anyway with hardly any real female motivations or emotions. That's why they usually end up being lesbian, so male players don't feel awkward kissing a guy.
@GodofCapcom
That’s a pretty woke remark. Why shouldn’t a female be female?
Captured on PS5? What? It’s clearly PC gameplay, looks amazing nonetheless!
@Hypoman
Where did I say a female shouldn't be a female? How is it woke to say most men are physically superficial? Especially gamers.
This reminds me of the beyond good and evil 2 trailer. I question whether that game will ever release but I think I'll enjoy this as a substitute 😊
Holy moly it's actually good!? I didn't expect to see something that looks this amazing. Can never get enough star wars so I'll be getting this for sure.
Star Wars out here eatin Starfield's lunch like it's nuthin.
Very exciting and I hope this nails it when more is revealed.
I wonder if you can fly on the surface of planets with your ship..
If not only cause of technical difficulty, maybe they didnt add this for balancing issues of difficulty, idk, but could be other ships and strong defenses on the surface.
Or not, just like starfield.
Looks fun and really well done, still many secs loading it seems from surface to space to another system jump etc.
Probably an easier to get into fun game vs Starfield, and starfield more of a full tinkering around game ofc.
Weird, I saw a very simplistic generic action game with plays by itself combat, giving off strong The Order 1886 vibes.
@MFTWrecks It’s not just mind-blowing, but it must be very, VERY mind-blowing and INCREDIBLY STAGGERING.
@SASnake i see people thinking they can fly free everywhere.
the flying scenes are only activated by story events.
it does not work like gta where you can just 9-11 a golf car into any planet.
Can I play as a dude? We're meant to be in the representation era so I should be able to play a dude since I am one. Otherwise I won't feel represented.
This looks amazing I'm in
@GodofCapcom
I’m sorry. I didn’t mean woke. My bad. I meant feminist. I was referring to your remark about ‘men don’t prefer a female lead caracter’ only if she is ‘curvy’ Ever played The last of us? I think there are at least some male fans….
This is looking really good. I think the quality of the Ubisoft AC games can be translated into the ultimate star wars game. Seems to have a good story and a great bunch of characters. Like the droid. Hopefully this will have lots of missions and areas to explore and have some great vehicles..being a space outlaw is cool and the space fighting adds another dimension to the game adding more variety. Just to note at least got some idea about the story. Looking forward to this game now. Never new it existed until now.
This was absolutely amazing. I'm not trying to jump the gun but if this is what we can expect and its open world it might end up being the best Star Wars game I've ever seen.
Was this actually running on a PS5 or was captured on a PC?
@Hypoman
Did you see the hate Abby got? Lol
I never said never makes character like Bayonetta dude.
I don't think you got the point and are pulling stuff from thin air. I'm direct with my words. I don't mean a second thing with what I wrote.
@EchoRange Saw enough to know what Ubi were going for.
@Grimwood Cal is literally his actor Cameron Monaghan, you say generic i say an amazing likeness of the guy voicing and motion capturing him.
@GodofCapcom Kassandra from AC Odyssey is one of my favourite characters in gaming and maybe in my top 3 ever. My avatar in SF6 is female, my Sorc in Diablo 4 is female, FemShep in Mass Effect is canon for me, Bayonetta is one of my favourite characters in gaming along with Lara Croft, i adored Abby TLoUP2 and i hope ND bring her back for Part 3, Batgirl was my most played hero in Gotham Knights and giving a choice between choosing between playing as a male or female i almost always pick female. Yeah implying i prefer male characters doesn't work here dude.
As for this and Starfield? Two completely different games, one is a 3rd person action adventure open world while the other is a space exploration RPG with near limitness scope that looks like cross between Skyrim and No Man's Sky.
@WallyWest
I hope it strays far away from no mans sky. That game sucks so bad to this day.
I don't see what you prove with choosing female avatars.
I never said you prefer male characters. I just said that realistic women personalities is not something male gamers are attracted to, which could be why you don't enjoy Aloy or this girl.
A lot of your examples are oversexualized female characters or characters that act like their male version (Shepperd) but look female. I specifically said female personalities.
I think most prefer like Sexy women with more male oriented personalities.
Look at how people reacted to Dimetrscu and Abby and that tells you everything you need to know about most male.gamers.
That said. You could well enjoy other characters, but devs don't make them and it's funny people complain about female leads when it's still a minority. It's not like gay which is a minority. This is literally half of the population.
This looks absolutely incredible from what they showed.
I’m really wondering what is going so right with this game … cos everything else they showed looked to me like they were developing games early in the generation of the ps4. The Avatar game looked especially ropey graphically and the new driving game also just looks a little dated when put up against what’s out there on ps5… This however … looks amazing!
@GodofCapcom Unfortunately you only have to spend half an hour playing any online shooter with your mic plugged in to realise what you’re up against with gamers. You mention gay characters in games and tragically - this is still seen as some HUGE statement … mostly because everyone knows that there will still be a tirade of extremely old fashioned and very cheap commentary about it amongst the ‘innnit innit innit bruv bruv bruv’ contingent of the gaming community!
@GodofCapcom I never said i dislike Aloy i just dislike how she's become the blueprint for "strong female characters". As i said i loved Abby and i love Ellie and and speaking of Ashly Burch i love Chloe from Life is Strange. Also i wouldn't call Kassandra, Abby and Batgirl sexualized. Back to Aloy yeah she's as realistic as any other gaming hero, she certainly lacks the raw depth of Ellie or Abby for instance and she's largely a fantasy hero like Nathan Drake, Dante, Ezio and such in yeah they're great for that Hollywood action hero feel but as a reflection of real life and its people? Nope not at all.
@WallyWest This new character is nothing like Aloy
@GodofCapcom
Did you realize how much copys TLOU2 sold?
It looks very impressive. Hopefully it can stick the landing.
@MFTWrecks Agreed! It's literally mind-blowing how liberally it's being used nowadays.
@EchoRange Yeah she's off the Aloy mold.
@Grimwood Yes the main character NIX with his fluffy fur, and fluffy paws and fluffy ears........ I mean you know Kay is cool too.
@Hypoman
Not every woman looks like a 10/10 supermodel. Most people don't...period. I never understood people who have a meltdown at the sight of average looking women in a video game. Like how shut in are those people?
@PegasusActual93
True, but it is just like movies. The hero or heroin is never average.
Looks promising. Can't wait more details and please Ubisoft to be good. Enjoy.
So this is what happened with Beyond Good and Evil 2
@Grimwood cal kestis is Cameron Monaghan ( a real human being ) so i don't know what you mean by "generic" XD
I don't care to get involved in the ridiculous argument over the main character, but I think this looked fantastic and it's already one of my most anticipated titles of 2024. Between this and Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, I should be a happy gamer next year.
@MikeOrator How are they dudes exactly? Cause it seems to me like you can’t accept the fact developers will not be beholden to your unreasonable expectations of female characters.
The idea of a Star Wars open world game (with a smuggler focus) is an enticing prospect, though I worry that the final product maybe held back by Ubisofts worst habits.
As others have said, this has probably one of the best games we've seen this week. It's been a very long time since I've been excited to play a Ubisoft game but this looks great.
Can u wishlist this on ps5 in America? I can't yet on ps5 uk
@Exerion76 oh yeah. I just rewatched it, so it could be an Xbox…But it definitely not a PS5. Either way, this headline is super misleading and disappointing.
@freddquadros @MayaMousavi @Icey664 @Ernimus_Prime Gameplay video was very impressive, I hope there are trophies tied to which choices you make.
Also that said choices actually make a significant impact to the overall story.
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