Star Wars Outlaws Sounds Like Every Ubisoft Game, Just Without The Bad Stuff

Summary

Ubisoft's DNA is permeating Star Wars Outlaws, drawing comparisons to its staple games like Watch Dogs, Assassin's Creed, and Far Cry.
Despite the familiar elements, Outlaws seems to avoid checklist gameplay and towers, offering emergent gameplay and a more exciting world.
While Outlaws may not stray too far from the Ubisoft formula, it still presents a promising departure from the studio's usual repetitive gameplay.

Previews for are out, and each one I read leaves me increasingly perplexed. Some critics, including 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:our own George Foster, are saying that Outlaws steers away from tired tropes and offers a new experience that mitigates the open-world fatigue so many of us are experiencing. Others say Ubisoft’s footprint is very apparent in how it blatantly mixes p♐arts of its disparate series into one game, but to surprisingly positive effect.

It seems that 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:despite Massive’s best efforts and the studio being “hyper conscious” of the Ubisoft formula, Star Wars Outlaws does feel a lot like Ubisoft’s other games. This is usually enough for me to discount a game entirely – I can’t even begin to express ho♌w tired I am of this studio and its impact on ever𝐆y game in the genre – and yet, the people who have played it seem to like it quite a lot.

Ubisoft’s Influence Is Everywhere

From what I’ve gathered, there’s a lot of Ubisoft DNA in Outlaws. George said that the combat and stealth mechanics are strikingly similar to that of , in the best way. I’m not sure how I feel about that yet, but he see🔯ms quite enthusiastic about the fluidity of Kay’s movements and how your partner/pet Nix is used as a strategic tool. Othಌer previews have compared the game’s stealth to Assassin’s Creed, especially when Kay is hiding from patrols or security cameras in tall grass.

The infiltration of out of bounds areas has also been compared to Far Cry’s outpost takedown mechanics. You mark enemies with binoculars, take enemies down one by one while sneaking through the area, and making sure nobody sets off an alarm to draw in r𝔉einforcements. It all sounds very familiar and predictable, as a formula that’s been pasted into countless Ubisoft games and replicated in later open-world games.

The game has also 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:drawn many comparisons to ’s , because of the climbing sequences, and ’s , because of its heists and wanted sy𓆏stem.

And Yet, It’s Very Much Not Ubisoft

I guess a game is more than the sum of its parts, because nobody seems to be all that upset about the Ubisoft influence. Despite having familiar elements, Outlaws seems to depart from the worst of the studio’s sins: the checklist game. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Side quests an♔d activities feel more organic, the world feels more alive, and it doesn’t feel like you’re doing things for the sake of working towards 100 percent completion of an area or the larger game. There’s emerge🍌nt gameplay, which makes me hopeful that the minute-to-minute gameplay won’t feel as prescriptive and dull.

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More importantly, ܫthere aren’t any of those awful map-revealing towers that became the default so many years ago. It was novel in the first Assassin’s Creed, when scoping out the surrounding area by climbing a building and perching on top of it was fresh – not so much in 2024. It feels like Massive has tried to iterate on the Ubisoft formula by taking the good stuff and consciously leaving out the bad, which is… a good thing? I think?

I can’t tell, yet. Even when you take the most annoying, overdone things out of an Ubisoft game, it’s still an Ubisoft game – nothing new or particularly innovative, just a well-executed version of something we’ve already seen before. All we can do for now is hope that the worst previews aren’t right about Star Wars Outlaws just being another empty🧸 calorie, mindless game.