I picked up Star Wars Outlaws because I do happen to like average Ubisoft open world slop from time to time. It's like getting some McDonald's every now and again, the food sucks but somehow it hits the right spot sometimes.
The game starts by setting up a big bad crime boss and identifying that the game is taking place between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi films. You are Kay Vess, a Han Solo genderbent cosplay with about 10% the charisma. And she steals things, that's about all there is to her character. She is staying in the attic of a bar who's owner looks out of her for some reason, and you go off to explore the city stealing things. You meet another "friend", nobody seems to like Kay, and in order to get your little hacky tool fixed you gotta steal some shit. Turns out you steal from the wrong guy and they come hunting you at the bar. The own gives you the job that he didn't want you to take in the beginning and it leads Kay off world to start stealing professionally.
The gameplay itself is a mix between an AC game and a 3rd person Far Cry. However a lot of interesting things that those series do with the gameplay loops is sort of missing here. The stealth is uber basic, sneak up on guy, hit guy, done. The gun play is bland and blasters have zero impact on anything so they are just boring to use. Enemies barely react to getting shot until they die and it's just unsatisfying to play.
Even the open world is empty and boring. Normal the world is covered in vomit markers with little shits to do, but not here. There is very few points of interest and the best play seems to be to move from main mission to main mission to get all your unlocks since a lot of the few random locations on the map require those abilities anyway.
It's like Ubisoft heard people complaining about Valhalla and took way too many steps back to provide a big open world game that feels empty. Then took out the leveling system or any sort of character progression at all besides a few challenge unlocks and called it a day.
I didn't expect a great game, but I expect a decent open world game with a Star Wars skin on it. Instead I got a boring game that is boring and unfun to play. I will not even bother doing any more with this.
The game starts by setting up a big bad crime boss and identifying that the game is taking place between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi films. You are Kay Vess, a Han Solo genderbent cosplay with about 10% the charisma. And she steals things, that's about all there is to her character. She is staying in the attic of a bar who's owner looks out of her for some reason, and you go off to explore the city stealing things. You meet another "friend", nobody seems to like Kay, and in order to get your little hacky tool fixed you gotta steal some shit. Turns out you steal from the wrong guy and they come hunting you at the bar. The own gives you the job that he didn't want you to take in the beginning and it leads Kay off world to start stealing professionally.
The gameplay itself is a mix between an AC game and a 3rd person Far Cry. However a lot of interesting things that those series do with the gameplay loops is sort of missing here. The stealth is uber basic, sneak up on guy, hit guy, done. The gun play is bland and blasters have zero impact on anything so they are just boring to use. Enemies barely react to getting shot until they die and it's just unsatisfying to play.
Even the open world is empty and boring. Normal the world is covered in vomit markers with little shits to do, but not here. There is very few points of interest and the best play seems to be to move from main mission to main mission to get all your unlocks since a lot of the few random locations on the map require those abilities anyway.
It's like Ubisoft heard people complaining about Valhalla and took way too many steps back to provide a big open world game that feels empty. Then took out the leveling system or any sort of character progression at all besides a few challenge unlocks and called it a day.
I didn't expect a great game, but I expect a decent open world game with a Star Wars skin on it. Instead I got a boring game that is boring and unfun to play. I will not even bother doing any more with this.
