Star Wars Outlaws is one of the more intriguing pieces of media set in that galaxy far, far, away, seemingly designed to draw in lapsed fans of a particular vintage like ourselves. It takes place in the fertile space between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, concerned with the seedier, less sterile corners of the universe, and follows an outlaw from the Outer Rim named Kay Vess.
Speaking to GamesRadar+, Ubisoft Massive creative director Julian Gerighty discussed how reputation is everything in the intergalactic underworld of Star Wars Outlaws. Players can guide Vess to become a lovable rogue like Han Solo, or a ruthless mercenary like Boba Fett, depending on preference: "As a scoundrel, you live and die by your reputation, meaning that Kay will have to navigate the underworld and its various crime syndicates, making choices that will impact her reputation, her experience, and her support throughout the game."
Star Wars Outlaws aims to tell a tighter narrative tale, which sounds like a refreshing change from Remedy's more open and, at times, meandering Star Wars Jedi games. Like those games, Massive has confirmed there will only be one ending to Outlaws, meaning the effects of this reputation system will be felt in-game and not just affect an outcome. Gerighty elaborates: "A good reputation could lead to some of the most lucrative opportunities, and a bad reputation could result in [Kay Vess] facing a syndicate's wrath as they hunt her down."
Players can expect to visit the iconic hives of scum and villainy made famous across the Star Wars series, making a tour of Tatooine and Jabba's Palace a necessity. New locations, such as the moon of Toshara, have been created specifically for the game and will offer unique biomes and stories to uncover.
Star Wars Outlaws is out sometime (potentially "late") in 2024 on PS5, which would make sense for a big-ticket IP like Star Wars. How are you feeling about Star Wars Outlaws? Let us know in the comments section below.
[source gamesradar.com]
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Easily top 3 most anticipated games this year for me. Heading for mercenary. Always mercenary. Haha.
Don't you dare mess this up Ubisoft. 😠
2024 was supposed to be the year I bought fewer new games. Ah, well.
Remedy Jedi games? I believe you meant Respawn. Unless I am missing something.
Only game I'm really hyped for this year.
Don’t really understand this “ Star Wars Outlaws aims to tell a tighter narrative tale, which sounds like a refreshing change from Remedy's more open and, at times, meandering Star Wars Jedi games” the Jedi games, made by Respawn, not Remedy, are quite linear with a tight story. Not sure what was the point of that sentence. Seems like the writer never played the “Remedy” games.
This is my most anticipated game of the year not named Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.
Please explain what part of the Jedi Suvivor narrative is "meandering."
Gotta agree with the other comments - Jedi Survivor isn’t truly open world, it’s very constrained and offers very limited paths in all honesty.
Anyhow, super excited for this one. Little confused by the notion that there’s one ending but you choose your path. Surely it needs at least two endings for the pathways but regardless, very excited.
Cautiously optimistic and probably will get it but it'll be early 2025 once the inevitable bugs have been ironed out. The backlog is too big
Feels like Khayl might not have played the Respawn Jedi games and is just assuming they tell their stories like a normal souls like.
I would love an actual Remedy Jedi game, that would be one hell of a trip!
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Lots of choice and one ending? Did I read that right?
Will be interesting to see how it compares to starfield
This game looks perfect. Like a 'no mans sky' star wars edition
@KillerBoy completely different genre. It's like comparing Uncharted to Skyrim. The only parallel is being able to hop from one planet to another, which means nothing.
@SoulChimera
Same loved the gameplay and the trailer they gave us
Really looking forward to this it looks great so far.
Looking forward to whenever BG&E 20th anniversary edition is coming out as well
@Dragoon1994 When it was announced I was curious, but since playing Division 1 and 2 in the past 2 months, has significantly increased my hype for this game. I know they will nail the gameplay, like to see what they do with vehicular combat. Slight concern would be story, as I wasn’t grabbed by the story in the Division games (except for the Echoes).
Remedy dont make Star Wars games, that's respawn
@WafflingHearts
I haven’t played the division games as they didn’t interest me. Fighting bounty hunters in space would be an awesome feature
I'm quietly hopeful for this one, excellent chronological choice for the setting. And agreed, could be the Han Solo simulator we all wanted!
I’m so hyped. We get even more Star Wars girl boss!? Sign me up!!!
This is a bit niche, but one aspect that I'm really interested in--and I'm latching onto it from the first look trailer--is the idea of taking off from a planet, passing through the atmosphere, entering another planet's atmosphere, etc. Little to no loading screens. To me, that's just an amazing idea and showcase of technology, etc.
I feel like not a lot of games pull this off, and I'm actually playing Outer Wilds for the first time right now, and that game does this, albeit on a very small scale.
Cynically, I don't expect Outlaws' planets to be gigantic planet-sized areas of complete exploration, that just sounds like so much work and also insanely large open worlds. But still I'm hoping for some freedom to land/take off from certain pockets of mini open-worlds, several per planet. That would be cool.
@Slippship Always been weird to me that people don't seem to consider all the choices you make and how it affects the actual meat of a story as the thing to care about, but instead focus on the end. Why does having one ending matter, when the meat of the game at the centre is different?
@SASnake no point making any choice when the end is the same. Makes it pointless to me. The results from the witcher 3 would have been irrelevant without a different end. Where's the replay value?
Remedy? Maybe Respawn
"effects of this reputation system will be felt in-game and not just affect an outcome" - so....choices have effect , but dont affect the ending....now that is a definition of pointless....
My anticipation of this game is very moist.
Considering it’s Ubisoft, I’m cautiously optimistic for this one. Could be really good, but it’s also Ubisoft so.. we’ll have to wait and see
I'd say we may see it tomorrow, but think MS has the marketing rights. Still, hope to hear more soon!
@Dragoon1994 nor did I! But the moment to moment gameplay (shooting and skills) is what made me continue to play past the Endgame. Fallen Order and survivor (I haven’t played the second one yet) has bounties as well. Have u played either?
@WafflingHearts
Yes and I loved both Jedi games.
The bounties aren’t done in space battles though as far I remember.
Outlaws is to be fully open world.
Would love bounty hunters to come and hunt you down whilst you are travelling in space
@Slippship I kinda see it like life. You are born at the start and you die at the end. Those things are set in stone, its all the stuff inbetween that matters.
@SASnake deep man.....
@Slippship It's the only way I could think of to ***** my way into being right.
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