Star Wars Outlaws Trailer Brings Back Pre-Special Edition Lucas Version Of Creature
A new trailer for Ubisoft's upcoming open-world game, , has shown more of scoundrel Kay Vess' story, providing an insight into her motives and backstory, along with the many threats she will face on her journey. The new, action-packed footage showed Kay engaging in combat both on land and in space and featured the return of various iconic characters and creatures from the original trilogy.
Star Wars Outlaws is set between the events of and, and focuses on the Outer Rim's criminal underworld in a story that takes place away from the series' main conflict between the rebels and the Empire at this time.
One surprising change in the trailer — which can be seen on Ubisoft's YouTube channel — comes when Kay and her Axolotl companion, Nix, can be seen sliding toward a Sarlacc pit during a daring chase. With Jabba the Hutt being shown moments prior, and his guards pushing Kay about, it's likely that their negotiations weren't successful, and he sent her to die in the pit, much as he tried with Luke Skywalker in. Whereas this kind of behavior is expected of Jabba, the real surprise is thatMassive Entertainment seems to have used the version of the Sarlacc from before the 1997 Special Edition re-releases of the original trilogy.
The Sarlacc is a large, carnivorous invertebrate, but despite showing characteristics of both plants and animals, xenobiologists have not been able to answer the question of what exactly it is due to how dangerous the creature is. Sarlaccs reproduce via spores, known as Sarlacci, that travel through space and implant themselves into the ground, growing downward like a plant to form the deadly Sarlacc pit.
When the Sarlacc pit was first shown in 1983's, it appeared as a void of what appeared to be razor-sharp teeth, and it didn't make much sound or move much, acting almost like a venus fly trap waiting for unsuspecting Tatooine residents or other smaller creatures to fall into it when it wasn't being fed by Jabba. With the 1997 Special Editions,
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