Ubisoft’s Star Wars big open-world game comes out of hyperspace
Microsoft had a big surprise reveal at its Xbox Showcase showcase on Sunday: A first look at the Ubisoft’s new Star Wars game being developed by Massive Entertainment, the team behind Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The game is called Star Wars: Outlaws, and it’s set to be released sometime in 2024.
The trailer reveals the game’s protagonist, a young woman who foregoes the simple black-and-white morality of the Sith and the Jedi in favor of the delicate grays of smugglers, rogues, and hustlers that fill the rest of the galaxy. We see her and her adorable pet playing cards before the crime syndicates that rule the area come calling; then, we get a swift chase on a speeder to our heroine’s waiting ship. The trailer also introduces her friend Jalen, who seems to co-pilot the ship.
Our first look at Star Wars: Outlaws also includes some impressive space flight sequences, but for now, everything we’ve seen is just cinematic and doesn’t tell us much about how the game will actually play. For that, fans will have to wait until the Ubisoft Forward event on Monday, where this trailer promised we’d get our first look at gameplay.
Previously known simply as “The Star Wars Project,” Massive’s new Star Wars game was announced in early 2021 as a story-driven open-world video game set in a galaxy far, far away. Julian Gerighty, creative director on the studio’s Star Wars game, said at the game’s announcement that the project would be “totally different” from what Massive had done in the past. Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, called the announcement “the beginning of a long-term collaboration with Disney and Lucasfilm Games.”
Star Wars: Outlaws is just one of many new Star Wars games in development.
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