'Star Wars Outlaws' has some problems... [REVIEW]

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Star Wars Outlaws is an action-adventure game developed by Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft. Set in the Star Wars universe between the events of The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983), the story follows Kay Vess, a young scoundrel who assembles a team for a massive heist in order to pay off a crime syndicate. The game is played from a third-person perspective, with the player traversing an open world environment and engaging in various activities.
~ Wikipedia

TIME STAMPS:
Intro - 0:00
Overview - 6:18
Presentation - 10:14
Story - 20:35
Combat - 33:11
Exploration - 45:56
Bugs - 56:48
Monetization - 58:08
Conclusion - 59:44
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[LukeStephensTV]

TLDW: If I had to give it a number score, I'd say it's a 7/10 if you play on the hardest difficult, 6/10 if you play on the default. It's a game with plenty of problems (bad AI, inconsistent cutscenes, clunky combat and some story elements that are out of place), but I think it's more than the sum its parts and I had fun. Probably only worth full price if you're a super-duper-die-hard-Star-Wars-fan, otherwise I'd wait a few weeks for patches and sales.

[RexKwon]

This is a perfect example of how AWESOME the Nemesis system would work here with the factions.

[are]

"Fun to play when you turn your brain off to the stuff that holds it back"
Typical modern ubislop experience

[GoodBoyGoneDad]

Your character not matching the character model in the cutscene is a great way to ruin the immersion of a game. That's so disappointing. The cutscenes being prerendered and looking like bad dubs is janky af.

[JeanneFeisont]

? Are we just pretending that Jedi Survivor and Jedi Fallen Order don’t exist? We’ve seen how good modern Star Wars games can be.

[JSRJS]

Its a $29.99 game....won't pay a penny more

[PluuuumE]

Man them shooting mechanics look worse than 2005's battlefront 2

[nazunaaaaaa]

None of the gameplay you showed looked even remotely interesting

[firered]

1:00:21 Jedi Survivor is a better value deal, a better story, better gameplay, better characters and has no Ubisoft BS attached.

[jonnyqi]

I'm just baffled by how tolerant the reviewers and the gaming population are towards paywalls. Especially we just had Wukong, which is a game with no monetary gimmick, no paywall, no overpriced BS. It is this kind of tolerance that nurtures more paywall BS. This Ubisoft game doesn't deserve a 7. The paywall alone should knock down review scores by 3 points at least.

[GothPaoki]

" has some problems" is honestly very flattering considering the state of it.

[Atomixi]

"Turn your brain off" is one of the worst defensive statements you can make about any piece of media.

[rogueone]

With all the games that game out prior to that, I refuse to believe this game is worth 70$, if a game is a 6/10 or 7/10 the most im willing to pay is MAYBE 45$. Doesn't matter how big is the game rather how well and polished
It's like getting a new car with flaws but still pat full price.

[beerus]

the moment a bethesda game has better ai than a ubisoft game you know what is up

[Drothen-]

Luke you have changed so much, maybe it’s time to stop going to Ubisoft events, you’re losing us.😢

[Dogonauts]

Luke, my guy, this entire review has been nonstop, "The story is meh, there's some really superfluous *and* frustratingly superfluous characters whose inclusion in the story is giving me a migraine thinking about for too long as I rant and ramble about it, the pre-rendered cutscenes are dated with an off model main character, the facial animations are uncanny and bad compared to a game that came out six years ago, the faction system isn't very responsive to play actions, there are repetitive fetch quests, the A.I. is braindead to the point where it's a detriment the gameplay in both stealth and combat. I had to break my own policy and crank up the difficulty to max so the enemy can kill me in 1 or 2 shots so the braindead A.I. has some kind of chance against me. The wanted system is counterintuitive and doesn't make sense narratively or gameplay wise and was probably done because the A.I. is so awful but it's an open world starwars game that looks pretty when you zoom around on your out of 10!"
And this is a game that costs between 70-130 bucks?
More then the sum of it's parts is carrying a hell of a lot of weight when a lot of the parts are substandard, outdated or outright broken, by your OWN admission? Your going through a rather Herculean task here of trying to make critical deal breaking issues like a completely braindead A.I. into not being that big of a deal and it's obvious that your trying to excuse something that other games would be lambasted for.

[Middy]

If you look closely enough, you can almost see Ezio behind him with a hidden blade to his back 😅

[Arcademan]

34:10
That is the worst transition from stealth to takedown I've ever seen

[jadenpokemon]

Yet another mid game by Ubisoft. Shocker.

[Freelancer]

how is it that like 20 years ago, enemies in games like this would fkn dive through windows, under desks, and genuinely try to win... or effectively coordinate different flanking tactics with their fellow npcs and yet here in 2024, when AI is literally the hottest topic on everyone's minds, we have THIS