Star Wars Outlaws (2024)

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Star Wars Outlaws Revealed: Get the First Details on Ubisoft’s Open-World Star Wars Game
Massive Entertainment, Ubisoft, and Lucasfilm Games pulled back the curtain today on the first-ever open world Star Wars game, Star Wars Outlaws, releasing in 2024 on Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC. Set between the events of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, players will step into the role of Kay Vess, a clever scoundrel in the galactic underworld. In Star Wars Outlaws, Kay is looking to attempt one of the biggest heists the Outer Rim has ever seen, all in an effort to start a new life. You can check out the official key art — featuring Kay and her companion Nix (perched atop her shoulder), along with a trench coat-wearing BX-commando droid, and other mysterious details — to the right, and the announcement trailer below.

“It’s a dream come true to be able to collaborate with the team at Lucasfilm Games to create Star Wars Outlaws, the first open-world Star Wars game," Julian Gerighty, creative director at Massive Entertainment, tells StarWars.com. "Our team at Massive Entertainment has a great deal of experience in open-world games backed by strong technology, and it’s the perfect time to tell an original scoundrel story that will resonate with fans. With the Galactic Empire on the heels of the Rebel Alliance, and the criminal underworld thriving, an outlaw like Kay Vess has a whole galaxy of opportunity in front of her."



www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-outlaws

Star Wars Outlaws Officially Revealed at Xbox Games Showcase
At Microsoft's Xbox Games Showcase today, we first saw Star Wars Outlaws, a new open-world narrative-driven game by Massive Entertainment, the developer behind Tom Clancy's The Division 1 & 2.

While we did not get any gameplay shown at today's showcase, we won't have to wait long as the trailer's end revealed that the company plans to provide a full gameplay walkthrough at tomorrow's Ubisoft Forward event.

In a press release shortly after the announcement, we learned that Star Wars Outlaws is set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. The press release mentions that players will control Kay Vess, who along with her friend Nix will "attempt one of the greatest heists the Outer Rim has ever seen."

More interestingly, the press release touts that Star Wars Outlaws is the "first open-world Star Wars game." With Lucasfilm Games VP Douglas Reilly noting that that Star Wars Outlaws will be "an action-adventure story filled with characters and planets both new and well-known to the Star Wars galaxy."

Back in 2021, we learned that Ubisoft would be making a Star Wars game. Following its official announcement, during an interview with IGN SVP of Walt Disney Games, Sean Shoptaw revealed that Ubisoft convinced the company to make a Star Wars game after its first meeting, which was originally to discuss Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.

Star Wars Outlaws is slated to launch sometime next year.

www.ign.com/articles/star-wars-outlaws-officially-revealed-at-xbox-games-showcase

[Red Mage Riot]

Interesting. I'm kind of sick of the Ubisoft formula, but I'll probably give this a look.

[Cyno]

As much as I like being a Jedi or a Force user, there's surprisingly very few games where you get to live out the Han Solo fantasy instead of Luke Skywalker. Last one I can think of is the Scoundrel class storyline in The Old Republic. This looks like it could be a lot of fun.

[Heeltown, USA]

It’ll probably be an Assassin’s Creed clone but a non jedi Star Wars game always has me intrigued

If Starfield launches first it could steal some of Outlaws thunder

[Push R Truth]

For some reason I get major "put Ellen Ripey in Star Wars without us getting sued" vibes from that art. And I'm not sure why honestly. Just the first thing that popped into my head.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

[Cyno]

The gameplay demo started off a bit too "Assassin's Creed With A Star Wars paint job," but thankfully moved away from that pretty quickly.

[Ryushinku]

The trailer was beautiful, but glad to see some actual gameplay footage already.

I love Jedi stuff but am pretty Jedi'd out right now, so, good to see a different flavour. I do hope it's not too Ubisoft collect 150 data cards on each map kinda deal, but it's got my interest.

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

I am incredibly sick of the Ubisoft formula so this is a wait and see for me.

[ToyfareMark]

This would have been a perfect use for Dr. Aphra. Missed opportunity IMO.

[Non Banjoble Tokens]

They should let you play as a Kushiban.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

I'll just wait till it goes on sale. It's a game by Ubisoft, it won't take long to go on sale at 50% off at the least.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

It looks cool, but Ubisoft is really bad at making engaging open world games. They have these big, wide, open worlds to explore with nothing to discover other than collectibles and repetitive fetch quests.

Fallout and Red Dead 2 should be the prime examples of how to do an Open World game. There's a sense of discovery because you never know what you are going to encounter--like Red Dead 2, you can find a KKK Rally, get raped by a hillbilly, fight a robot, a pig farm murderer, sabotage a magic show. It's worth exploring.

[Sponsored by Groose Wipes]

This game has potential but it also feels like ANOTHER AAA title that's going to be some live service BS or something along that nature that will kill any hype the game has.

I just want new games that doesn't feel like there's a monkey's paw with it every single time.