Star Wars Outlaws is on sale for Black Friday, and the timing is perfect

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Ubisoft has discounted Star Wars Outlaws across several different storefronts this Black Friday, but the best deal on the game comes from Amazon. There, an Amazon exclusive Star Wars Outlaws – Limited Edition has seen a steep 43% discount, bringing its price down from $70 to just $40. At that price tag, and with all of the improvements Ubisoft has made to the game over the past few months, especially in title update 1.4, Star Wars Outlaws is worth checking out.

Star Wars Outlaws is an ambitious open-world Star Wars game that follows a new character named Kay Vess. She’s a smuggler from the plant of Canto Bight who gets swept up in the feuds between the different clans that rule the galaxy’s criminal underworld and the fight between the Empire and Rebels over the course of the game. There’s a lot of fun to be had just exploring and immersing yourself in planets like Tatooine or Kijimi. In particular, I enjoy the arcade games that players can find scattered in its open world and the card game Sabacc.

This is certainly one of the most ambitious Star Wars video games ever made, up there with 2023’s Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. Unfortunately, it didn’t quite nail its concept at launch. It was glitchy and relied on some frustrating design tropes like forced stealth. That turned many people off at the time of release; even I gave the game a tepid three-star review.

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There is a lot of good to be found in Star Wars Outlaws, especially now that Ubisoft has had more time to work on the game and improve it via post-launch updates. Several of its worst bugs and weird camera issues have been ironed out. More importantly, forced stealth segments have all