Star Wars Outlaws Gets Encouraging Update
Star Wars Outlaws has received an age classification from the Entertainment Software Rating Board. The timing of its ESRB rating's emergence is an encouraging sign for fans, as it indicates that Star Wars Outlaws is on course to release without any delays.
Ubisoft historically secures ESRB age ratings for its games two to four months ahead of their eventual market release. That is what happened with Assassin's Creed Mirage, Valhalla, The Division 2, and plenty other games from the company over the years.
Star Wars Outlaws has now also also been classified by the North American self-regulatory organization. It has received a «Teen» rating in mid-April, which appears to be dovetail with the game footage that Ubisoft has shown so far. Between the publisher's track record and the emergence of the rating itself, this turn of events is another encouraging sign suggesting that Star Wars Outlaws is on course to hit its release date, August 30, without any delays.
As per usual, the ESRB provided a summary of the newly published rating, which goes into a bit more details regarding the actual contents of the upcoming open-world game. One particularly interesting tidbit concerns its quest design: while it has long been known that Star Wars Outlaws will feature stealth elements, its ESRB classification claims that «most» of the game's missions will focus on sneaking instead of fighting. It also indicates that all stealth takedowns performed by Kay Vess will be of the non-lethal variety.
When it comes to actual combat, the game will apparently be free of blood depictions, which are not mentioned in the rating's sumary. What the classification does mention is that players will be able to play Sabacc, an iconic blackjack-like card game that has long been part of the franchise. Star Wars Outlaws teased its Gwent equivalent as early as June 2023, with a cinematic trailer that showed Kay playing Sabacc.
Aside from gambling on card games, Star Wars Outlaws will also allow players to
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