Star Wars Outlaws Review (UPlay/PC)

Star Wars Outlaws Review, Experience the first-ever open-world Star Wars game, set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. Explore distinct locations across the galaxy, both iconic and new. Risk it all as Kay Vess, a scoundrel seeking freedom and the means to start a new life, along with her companion Nix. Fight, steal, and outwit your way through the galaxy’s crime syndicates as you join the galaxy’s most wanted.

Star Wars Outlaws Review Pros:

• Beautiful graphics.
• 53.1GB Download size.
• Uplay achievements.
• Full controller support.
• Uplay Connect support with rewards, challenges, etc.
• Officially licensed game.
• Mouse and keyboard support.
• Two screen types – 21:9 (borders and widescreen) and fill the screen.
• You can set up the accessibility options before starting the game. They are split into categories – gameplay (camera/motor preset/difficulty), cognitive, colors, vision (HUD size, audio description, high contrast colors), and hearing (sounds subtitles/lockpick cues).
• Can remap controls for the mouse and keyboard.
• MSI Mystic light support which basically means the colors of your keyboard lights change with gameplay.
• 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.
• A very Star Wars soundtrack.
• The lighting really sets the game off from the 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.
• 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.
• You can let Nix and other creatures.
• 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 favor with one will alienate another so it’s a balancing act or a case of prioritizing your end goal.
• Three criminal networks – Hutt Cartel, Crimson Dawn, and Pyke Syndicate.
• The databank menu holds tutorials, and lore about characters, creatures, etc, and you unlock information on the worlds you visit.
• Full the map in 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.
• A living breathing world, you can people-watch, eavesdrop on conversations, and generally feel part of it all.
• Buy and sell items at vendors.
• Play how you want.
• Main story missions with many side opportunities and missions for one-off quest givers or cartels etc.
• Auto saves regularly.
• The shooting feels good.
• Your loadout has clothes and charms. You can equip special items to Nix. Each piece of clothing and items for Nix will have a buff or ability attached to them.
• 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.
• 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 that what you have equipped.
• Find ship mechanics to buy and upgrade new ship parts.
• You can find and play two fully working and in-depth arcade machines.
• Handy button to show all opportunities in your current vicinity.
• 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 handlebar.
• 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.
• Arcade-like controls for spaceship control, you can lock onto enemies, scan the area, etc.
• Space debris can house hidden caches you shoot open.
• All text initially shows in Aurebesh and then translated to English. Aurebesh also shows on locked text.
• Landing in planets is made simple with a button press to initiate the landing and then you pick the port.

Star Wars Outlaws Review Cons:

• When swinging especially at night, it can be hard to aim your jump off or distance.
• Slow reload time after a death.
• Lock picking takes a lot of practice and even then it still feels alien every time you encounter a lock.
• The performance overall can be a bit up and down.
• Can be hard to make out which mission is main and which is a throwaway.
• Had many glitches like enemies appearing or disappearing in combat.
• Combat alarms trigger or go off sporadically even if you are hidden away.
• A lot of the missions are very fetched 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, 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.
• So many PC issues that can happen all the time then mysteriously stop one day to another where I get new ones randomly.

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Star Wars Outlaws:

Official website.

Developer: Ubisoft

Publisher: Ubisoft

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