Star Wars Outlaws is not ready for me!

 

Imagine you’re at a fancy Italian restaurant, and you order a £100 pizza, expecting a gourmet experience. But when it arrives, it’s half-cooked, missing toppings, and leaves you disappointed. That’s how I feel about Star Wars Outlaws. From what I’ve seen, this game feels underwhelming and unfinished, much like that disappointing pizza.

Star Wars Outlaws had all the ingredients to be a stellar game: a visually immersive open world, a new story set in the Star Wars universe, and a lot of promise. But reviews and gameplay footage reveal that the game struggles with a lack of content and depth. The open-world cities, like Mos Eisley, while visually impressive, feel lifeless, more like a movie set than a bustling, interactive environment​. Missions, too, quickly become repetitive, offering little variety beyond basic “point A to point B” objectives​. These are issues that make the game feel rushed, or, as I would say, half-baked.

Worse, there’s the concern about the future of the game’s development. Key members of the team at Ubisoft Massive, including the creative director, Julian Gerighty, are already moving on to The Division 3. 

The reviews of the game have so far been mixed.

IGN has given a "good" rating, saying it is "a fun intergalactic heist adventure with great exploration, but hindered by simple stealth, repetitive combat, and a few too many bugs at launch".

Eurogamer says, Outlaws "isn’t a squeaky clean game on a technical level, with a few rough points amid a general trend of brilliance".

PC Gamer describes Outlaws, as "everything good and bad about big-budget open world excess".

While they claim to be pushing for improvements and releasing future downloadable content, my concern is that the main team will shift focus, leaving Outlaws in a state of limbo. This has left me unwilling to pay for a game that seems incomplete at launch.

Instead, I’ll wait a year or two and see if Ubisoft has the appetite to fix the game and add the content it desperately needs. Much like how I wouldn’t pay for that under-cooked pizza, I won’t spend top dollar on an under-cooked game. Hopefully, by then, Star Wars Outlaws will be more like the gourmet pizza it was meant to be.