Star Wars: Outlaw
Developer: Ubisoft
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PC
Genre: Stealth, Adventure, Open World
Publisher: Ubisoft
Platform: PC
Genre: Stealth, Adventure, Open World
Difficulty: Medium with some stupid hard bits
Hours: 12
Hours: 12
Finished: No
Final Rating: 7/10
Final Rating: 7/10
The jank is strong with this one.
It's pretty but there's just not much under the hood. Star Wars Outlaw certainly nails the used future look of the original trilogy, but after that nostalgia rush wears off what's left is just... fine.
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| Used future means toilets |
Star Wars Outlaws is basically a stealth game, and it's not a great one mostly thanks to some stupid enemy AI. I've literally shot stormtroopers 30 feet away from their comrades with my loud-ass blaster and no one blinked an eye. Sure, they might check out their buddy's corpse for a minute, but then it's back to business.
You play as Kay Vess, an aspiring uh, outlaw? trying to make her way in the Outer Rim or whatever. You'll primarily be doing jobs for three criminal organizations: The Hutts (violent gangsters), The Pyke Syndicate (those stupid lookin fish guys from Book of Boba Fett), and the Crimson Dawn (ugh, an uninspired, generically edgy organized crime group). You can often betray them, say, by taking a job to retrieve a datapad of sensitive info and selling it to another org. Your reputation with each group fluctuates depending on the work you do (or don't do) for them, but it's usually not hard to get back into a group's good graces after you screw them.
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| This is awesome. |
Great idea, but in execution it's somewhat... simple. Do the job, watch the bar raise. I guess criminal organizations don't have a great memory. I was doing Crimson Dawn jobs mere hours after clearing warehouses of their goons.
I don't care for stealth games that much, but the promise of exploring open world Star Wars planets was too tempting to pass up. I think Outlaw pretty much delivers here. The worlds are beautiful, and there is much to discover out their on your own without the standard Ubisoft map icon checklist. Jetting around on your janky old speeder is pretty fun.
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| I'm just gonna have a sit down and think about playing something else. |
I had my Star Wars fill at around the 10 hour mark or so. I think you'll get a lot more mileage out of this if you're a fan of the stealth genre, but even if you are the frustrating enemy behavior is sure to get on your nerves after a while.
