Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition invites you to ditch the Jedi robes and embrace the blaster-slinging grit of the galaxy’s most wanted. From the windswept savannas of Toshara to the neon haze of Canto Bight, this open-world escapade is a high-stakes hustle through crime syndicates, cantina whispers, and hyperspace dogfights. With Kay Vess and her loyal companion Nix at your side, every mission is a gamble, every choice a reputation shift. This deep dive into Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition is your ticket to the underworld, where fortune favours the bold, and betrayal is just another business expense.

Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition Review Pros

• Beautiful graphics.
• 53.1GB Download size.
• Uplay achievements, and it seemed to use my progress towards achievements from the PC version. 
• Touchscreen controls for puzzles and interactions, including the menus. 
• Even in handheld, the game looks phenomenal and runs really well. 
• You can download and upload saves from the cloud, which means you can use cross progression with other platforms. 
• The game did seem to bring over all my settings like accessibilit,y etc. 
• Includes all the DLC from the season pass:
  • Jabba’s Gambit mission  
  • Kessel Runner cosmetic pack  
  • Two-story packs:
    • In Star Wars Outlaws: Wild Card, Kay infiltrates a Sabacc tournament and uncovers a deeper plot involving Lando Calrissian. To play, complete two base quests, Gunsmith and The High Roller—and you’ll also get the Hunter’s Legacy and Cartel Ronin Bundles
    • Star Wars Outlaws: A Pirate’s Fortunes sends Kay and Nix on a treasure-hunting mission with Hondo Ohnaka, battling raiders and infiltrating the Khepi Tomb. To play, finish the base game’s main story first, and owners also get the Naboo Nobility and Desert Nomad cosmetic packs.
• Uplay Connect offers rewards, challenges, and more.
• Officially licensed game.
• You can set up the accessibility options before starting the game. They are split into categories – gameplay (camera/motor preset/difficulty), cognitive, colours, vision (HUD size, audio description, high contrast colours), and hearing (sounds, subtitles/lockpick cues).
• Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, aim assist, and toggle sprint.
• Third-person action-adventure gameplay.
• In-game cutscenes and character interactions can be fast-forwarded or skipped. They also use rendered cutscenes for the heavier story beats.
• Nix is your alien creature sidekick. You can get him to distract people, steal and pickpocket, or just fetch or hit buttons out of reach.
• A grappling hook helps with climbing cliffs and swinging over Caverns.
• Excellent voice work.
• Crawling through vents is first-person. 
• A very Star Wars soundtrack.
• The lighting really sets the game off from day and night, to the neon-soaked skylines.
• You can use Nix to highlight enemies within a small area.
• Full stealth model, including the ability to whistle and lure enemies in close. Any enemy affected by it will show an icon above their head to show it. 
• When wanted you can hear them organising and saying your last location more ships and troops start turning up and roaming around. 
• You can lose a wanted level by evading them or by paying. 
• Unlock and equip abilities by completing their own set of missions or objectives. You can pin them to get updates on progress.
• Find loot around the world, in containers, etc.
• Multiple choice encounters shape a lot of the faction stuff, but it is also for smaller interactions. 
• You can pet Nix and other creatures.
• Find treasure spots around the world; some will have puzzles and some will just have to be found. 
• Run toggle is a huge win for saving your stick and thumb. 
• I found that a lot of the time, the AI is pretty good; they just run towards you and will flank and investigate well. 
• Handy call speeser to you button when in the open world. 
• Full photo mode.
• The data spike is used for lock picking and uses a timing input-based system.
• Slicing is computer hacking whereby you have to work out the combination and icons used to unlock it. You get multiple goes, and it is pretty straightforward.
• Adrenaline is accrued by you taking fire when in cover, once full, you can go into slow Mo and mark enemies to shoot them in one go. (Think Red Dead Dead Eye)
• Reputation plays a huge part, especially in the Underworld. You do jobs for factions, and getting favour with one will alienate another, so it’s a balancing act or a case of prioritising your end goal.
• Three criminal networks – Hutt Cartel, Crimson Dawn, and Pyke Syndicate.
• Time it right and you can quickly kill a group of enemies before anymore see you. 
• The databank menu holds tutorials, and lore about characters, creatures, etc, and you unlock information on the worlds you visit.
• Fill in the map as you explore. The compass at the top shows icons and objective markers.
• Your speeder bike is used for traveling around and you can do evasive maneuvers and drift.
• Stumble across events and scenarios out in the open world like saving people from the empire or joking in on soeeder races. 
• A living, breathing world, you can people-watch, eavesdrop on conversations, and generally feel part of it all.
• Buy and sell items at vendors.
• You get button prompts for actions like attack, vaulting, grappling, etc. 
• Mark all as read in each menu. 
• Pin recipes so that your progress towards them pops up as you find the materials. 
• Play how you want.
• Main story missions with many side opportunities and missions for one-off quest givers or cartels etc.
• Auto saves regularly.
• Find and play arcade games in an arcade cabinet. One is like a first-person asteroids shooter, and the other is an endless runner, avoiding obstacles. 
• The shooting feels good.
• Your loadout has clothes and charms. You can equip special items to Nix. Each piece of clothing and item for Nix will have a buff or ability attached to it.
• A handy button to summon your speeder bike if the map allows it.
• You can steal items, and you do get warned beforehand.
• The delivery crate at the back of your ship houses any rewards you get, I had DLC items, and Twitch drops will go there.
• ND 5 is an android that joins you and is a good addition to your party. 
• I fell in love with the stor,y and even the side missions offer more to the story and at times feel like they are complimentary. 
• Full outerspace dog fighting and exploration, you can scan the immediate area for interactions to appear and lock onto enemies to make shooting a lot easier. 
• Find random quests or interactions within the world. 
• Workbenches let you upgrade and swap out parts of your blasters. Your ship has a workbench.
• Clothing has an extra layer where you can have a different item of clothing showing what you have equipped.
• Find ship mechanics to buy and upgrade new ship parts, amd you can customise it from paint to handle decorations, and jet colours. 
• You can find and play fully working and in-depth arcade machines.
• Handy button to show all opportunities in your current vicinity.
• The computer in your ship can show all your current side missions, and you can select and delete them without penalty. 
• The voice work is every bit as good as the music. 
• A true Star Wars experience from the story to the presentation and feel, the world they create, and how it all fits is truly something special. 
• Find treasure and smuggler hideouts on the map and then work out how to get into the area and take what you need.
• Your speeder can be upgraded with resources, materials, and credits. You can also paint your speeder, add a trophy, and add a trinket that hangs off your handlebars.
• The game autosaves a lot and does tell you when it last saved on the pause menu. 
• Hyerdrive lets you go full Star Wars in space and select a destination, and then just go! 
• Mark the map to have an icon show on your compass.
• The opportunities and missions you can do to unlock new things like more opportunities etc are tied to characters you find and work with.
• Retrieve loot in space with just a button press. 
• The Flying in space is third perso,n and then goes into first person when shooting. 
• Landing on a planet is a button press, and then you choose a location then it’s a cutscene. 
• Arcade-like controls for spaceship control, you can lock onto enemies, scan the area, etc.
• Space debris can house hidden caches you shoot open.
• It feels so cool hiding in the bushes and getting Nix to go and cause mayhem or turn off the alarm or camera so you can take a guy out. 
• Find and clear outposts for more loot and hack computers to get credits, Intel, lore, or clear your wanted level. 
• Maintains the Star Wars aesthetics from the music to the mission pop up text. 
• All text initially shows in Aurebesh and then is translated to English. Aurebesh also shows on locked text.
• Landing on planets is made simple with a button press to initiate the landing, and then you pick the port.
• It will disconnect from Ubisoft servers a fair bit, but it doesn’t stop the game or anything detrimental. 
• Character interactions can be clicked through to speed up or skip them entirely. 
• You get to explore a crashed and broken Star Destroyer ship, and it is jaw-droppingly good. 

Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition Review Cons

• There are pop-up and blurry edges in places, and to be honest, it is kind of expected. 
• You cannot earn any Uplay achievement,s and do not get the list. 
• I found the controls needed some getting used to, as you are literally using every button on the pad and some of them multiple times. 
• When swinging, especially at night, it can be hard to aim your jump off or distance.
• Slow reload time after a death.
• I’m not a fan of the mini game that gets drawn out when you and Nix go eat something at the bar. 
• Lock picking takes a lot of practice, and even then, it still feels alien every time you encounter a lock. It’s a rhythm reflex-based event. 
• The performance overall can be a bit up and down.
• It can be hard to make out which mission is the main one and which is a throwaway.
• Had many glitches like enemies appearing or disappearing in combat.
• Saves can get out of hand as the autosave keeps generating slots. 
• Checkpoints within missions can be a nightmare, and you cannot just hit the restart checkpoint. 
• Over time, you will accrue a lot of missions and it can get messy and overwhelming. 
• When calling the speeser even if you meet it half way it will push you out of the way until it reaches the destination. 
• I hate that you cannot drag or pick up bodies to hide them. 
• The blur around enemies hardly shows, and there is a short time limit. 
• Combat alarms trigger or go off sporadically, even if you are hidden away.
• A lot of the missions are very fetch questy and repeat themselves many times.
• The handling and menus of missions are not clear or easy to quickly read and understand.
• Had it where the game stutters before acknowledging my inputs, and this happens more in conversations.
• The handling of the spaceship takes a lot of getting used to, and the dog fighting is not always great to play.
• A lot of crawling through vents.
• The game takes a while to get going like giving you free rein to do a lot of what the world offers.
• For some reason, I can hardly ever save from the pause menu and it’s annoying. 
• When hitting someone in stealth, the game has a real fascination with having you stand up afterwards. 

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