168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars Outlaws has been one of my most anticipated games since it was first revealed. Though I tend to have mixed feelings about Ubisoft’s approach to open worlds, Outlaws' developer Massive Entertainment is one of the teams I love most within the publisher, since it’s made one of my favorite third-person shooters of all-time, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Division 2. Combine that team's skill with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars’ first no-caveats-needed open-world game, and I'm hoping it can overcome the homogeneity that tends to accompany Ubisoft’s usual fare.
It looks like I have reason to be hopeful. This week, Outlaws got a with a launch date announcement, and so far, the August 30 release appea𓄧rs to be carving out a unique niche in the galaxy far, far away.
Jedi? No. Space Heists? Yes.
One of the things that excited me about Outlaws was that the protagonist wasn't a Jedi. Kay Vess is a Han Solo-type scoundrel, and in the first look we got of the game, she was sneaking into a hideout to steal something valuable, escaping to a nearby town on a speeder, then quickly jetting off planet. I 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:wrote at the time that it was r🎉efreshing to see a Star Wars game that wasn’t about a Force user, a🌳nd after seeing the new story trailer, I feel that even more acutely.
The trailer does include some familiar faces, though. Jabba the Hutt seems to play a fairly prominent role in the game and we also get a shot of Kay Vess in front of Han’s carbonite-encased body. I’ve gotten tired of every Star Wars game feeling the need to include major characters f♈rom the Skywalker Saga, but in this case I’m willing to let it slide because it’s going for something so different otherwise.
Open-world games are usually focused around a central goal — defeat Ganon, defeat Joseph Seed, defeat the Joker. The word those goals all have in common is a good indication of how similar main quests can often be. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Breath of the Wild, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Far Cry 5, and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Batman: Arkham City are very different, but open-world games tend to default to asking the player to defeat a big bad. Star Wars Outlaws likely will have its own villain that you end up taking on in a final boss battle, but the set-uꦚp of the trailer is much more focused on the heist that Kay is trying to pull off, and the big crime syndicate players that🍷 she may work with or against. That’s way more interesting.
Just One More Job
I love a good heist, whether in movie, book, or video game form. The Hitman and 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dishonored 🍌series are personal favorites, and my favorite aspect of Grand Theft Auto 5 were the mission chains that led up to a heist, having you pull off the smaller jobs required to set up the main job. As a big stealth ꦫand immersive sim fan, I love planning a job and executing it flawlessly (or not so flawlessly, as the case may often be).
We still haven’t seen much of Outlaws’ gameplay, so it’s hard to say how much the overarching heist will work its way into smaller missions. But those GTA 5-style set-up gigs in a Star Wars setting would be a treat. The best part of Solo was the scene where it transplanted a train heist🌼 into space, and the variety of planets in Outlaws’ open galaxy will provide plenty of optio🐟ns for changing scenery. Imagine a bank job in Coruscant, a casino robbery on Canto Bight, or a Logan Lucky or The Killing-style race heist set during the Boonta Eve Classic.
I may be imagining things that Outlaws isn’t actually goi🍨ng to deliver on, sure. But if it can scratch that heist itch while selling me on the Star Wars of it all, I’ll be as happy as Anakin Skywalker when Watto let him go home from the junkyard early. Yippee, indeed.
I'm Glad Star Wars Outlaws Is Skipping The Politics
Star Wars Outlaws is not concerned with canon shaping destinies, but with classic run and gun act🐟ion
