Star Wars Outlaws Lets You Meet Jabba the Hutt, Visit Eis Mosley Cantina

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Ubisoft Massive and Lucasfilm starred in a San Diego Comic-Con 2023 panel entirely dedicated to the upcoming open world game Star Wars Outlaws.

During the panel, Creative Director Julian Gerighty revealed that players will be able to meet (and get missions from or betray) the infamous crimelord Jabba the Hutt and visit the famed Eis Mosley cantina. After the panel, StarWars.com talked to Gerighty about these famous locations and characters.

Fans are going to have to play the game to see who might show up as a part of Kay’s story. I think Jabba's the most obvious that we've featured.

We also wanted an iconic location, and that was, for me, Tatooine. It was a big challenge because there's so many things that exist on Tatooine that it's become a puzzle to put things together. But we went back to the source. We went to some of the DK visual guides, and we started building, “Okay, what are the most important parts and what's gonna make the most fun for the player to explore?” So Mos Eisley is a big part of it, but there's also a lot of the dunes, the canyons, and things that you really expect. You know, the greatest hits of Tatooine that we try and put together.

We talked about the sort of singular nature of open worlds to allow the player to have agency on their experience. But there's another part of it that I love and that's very Ubisoft in a way, which is virtual tourism. And the virtual tourism in a place like Tatooine is great, because I've always wondered how far the moisture farms were from Mos Eisley. I've always wondered how the cantina was constructed. So all of these things, we're trying to do justice to the source material by really recreating it as authentically as possible, with the help of Lucasfilm Games.

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