Star Wars Outlaws

When you buy a product from a AAA developer, you expect high-end, or at least high-fidelity, not recycled and packaged crap. Star Wars Outlaws is a textbook example of a supposedly top-tier developer assembling a third-rate product, stitched together like a patchwork quilt from bits of old code from previous products, packaged in a new cover. Watch Kay Vess open a chest, watch the scene. Then watch the scene of Lara Croft opening the chest. Compare. There's no difference. Only the characters' appearances and the words they speak. A complete cloning, code transfer from game to game. There's also a similarity to Lara—Kay jumps, climbs, and leaps in exactly the same way. The covers are different, but the essence is the same. Or Kay Vess and her companion Nyx, and Cal Kastis and BD-1... There's no difference. Unification—borrowing ready-made solutions and entire chunks of code from older products, libraries, to improve product reliability and development speed? Well, yes, that makes sense from the perspective of a solo developer trying to save money. But for a AAA developer, it's cheap, and from the buyer's perspective, it's like being served a flatbread made from recycled crap ten times over instead of a fresh steak. I bought the game on sale, at a good discount, and I overpaid. The game isn't even secondary, it's tertiary—a carbon copy of a carbon copy, completely lacking in originality. So, I'm almost finished with the game and can now give a fully informed opinion. As I said above, I hate borrowing, plagiarism, and copy-pasting solutions in everything. It's cheap. The game is a copy of previous Ubisoft projects, and that's cheap. It's disrespectful to customers who are forced to pay huge sums of money for an unoriginal project cobbled together from bits and pieces of old games. The ad: "Meet the first-ever open-world Star Wars™ game!" It's a lie. There's no open world. There's a fixed number of maps, locations, and missions. Totally linear. There's absolutely no variability in the game. All your decisions in the main campaign are hardwired into the system. There's no opportunity to make choices, only as stated in the script. The result is predictable crap. They wrote about how well the criminal world was written. Nonsense. The criminal world is superficially and schematically written, and the character's interactions with the syndicates are also superficial. As Kay said, the Resistance is just like the syndicate, and it's true, they're all the same – gray, faceless, boring, uninteresting. The script is crude and empty. The motivations and backgrounds of all the characters, except for Kate and the robot, are superficially written. The graphics, the interface, the user experience – everything is familiar, nothing new or fresh, in other words – it's just old hat. To sum it up: it's pathetic. If I weren't paying for this, well, you never know, some clowns decided to save money and slapped together something third-rate from used parts and junk, but trying to sell it as a super-duper product, especially as "the first open-world Star Wars game," is a cheap disgrace.

Massively disappointing game. Open world my ass. I love star wars but this is a lara croft/ assasins creed load of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ if i ever played one.

Fun storyline, good mix of stealth and action gameplay elements. beautiful even on a struggling laptop. would love to see a sequel but given reception i expect we wont get anything. There are bugs, graphical glitches and issues that I encountered that are borderline deal breakers and should not be in a game of this calibre, though some of these may be due to hardware issues.

Despite what people said about this game I was able to try it out with PC Game Pass and I have honestly enjoyed the experience so far. My only issues have been some bugs that have needed me to roll back my save a bit. A good pickup if you can get it at a discount, I wouldn't pay more than $40 if you want it to be worth your money.

This game has ZERO redeeming qualities. The gameplay is insanely boring, simple, and uninspired. Its the worst form of stealth where you really only have ONE option to play most encounters. Very one dimensional and the story doesn't make up for it either. Kay is a nothingburger character, she's really not interesting at all, she's not cool or exciting, shes just meh. The open world is genuinely terrible. I don't know how they made a Star Wars open world game boring, but cheers to them. I bought this game on a sale and I still regret it.

I love (mostly) everything Star Wars. However, I want to be immersed in whatever game I'm playing, and I don't feel that immersion when I'm playing as a regular woman beating up droves of men that are much bigger than her. The gameplay loop is insufferably repetitive. The locations changed, but the boring gameplay stayed the same everywhere I went. Sneak around, attack NPC's from behind, send your pet to open things, climb and swing your way to your target. That said, it's a beautiful game; so there's that. It was a game that I used to waste time, pretty much. Nothing spectacular about this. The storyline was both bland and predictable. This new era of Disney-esque Star Wars does absolutely nothing for me. It's all predictable slop. 5.5/10 -- only get it if it's on sale

While I don't think it is necessarily as bad of a game as everyone online seems to believe, it is still impossible for me to recommend buying it. The story and main character are pretty well written, but the gameplay is boring and the visuals are grainy/blurry.