Star Wars Outlaws - Limited Edition (Amazon Exclusive), PlayStation 5

I bought this game on sale for about $25, which is a great deal for this game. The game is a lot of fun and feels like a cross between Red Dead Redemption and Star Wars. This is a fun game with some good mechanics and if you are a Star Wars fan it's a ton of fun to play. It's not inventing anything new, but that doesn't matter. The game is fun to play and if you can get it on a discount, it's great value!

Fun game. Cool character and good story. Open world. You get to ride speeders and shoot blasters. More of a scoundrels story than a Jedi story.

I believe this game is quite underrated. Admittedly I did not experience this title on release so I was never introduced to the many issues that marred this game at launch. This review is completely based on the post 2.0 patch experience.My favorite stories in the Star Wars Universe aren't about Jedis, Sith, Giant space stations, or planets being blown up. The universe on a micro-scale has always been far more enthralling. The day to day life, the politics, the story of the smuggler just trying to afford the next meal, the traumatic experiences of the expendable soldier, the moral quandries of fighting for a cause thats significantly larger than you'll ever be. Star Wars has started to explore these smaller scale stories more and more and they've been widely successful and beloved. From Rogue One to the more restrained parts of the Mandalorian, from Bad Batch to Andor, these are stories that many Star Wars are fascinated more by.Star Wars: Outlaws is one of those tighter knit stories. It's a story about a Kay, a person raised with a skill set that doesn't always offer the most honest work, just trying to get by. She's not some martyr for a cause, but not just some gun for hire. She has people she loves and just wants to live a life that isn't constantly interrupted and ripped apart by some conflict she didn't want a part of. Kay is a very relatable character and allows the player to really feel invested in her mission just to live her life. She's not after glory, just meger stability, but in order to achieve that, she constantly has to everything she already has so little of.Throughout Star Wars: Outlaws you'll visit multiple worlds, all with their own unique settings, communities, political climates. These worlds feel distinct although some can feel very small. You'll have to manage your relationship with different syndicates and strategically think about which to benefit or harm in order for you to get ahead yourself. Star Wars: Outlaws does a pretty decent job at presenting you with choice, but the impact of those choices aren't always as significant as you would like.Gameplay evokes a lot of simliarities to game like Uncharted and Tomb Raider. Third Person shooting and cover feels clean and isnt complex, but has a variety of ways to engage with it. Stealth is simplified and serviceable, don't expect a Metal Gear Solid or Splinter Cell experience. Open world traversal is fun, but rarely challenging. Space combat is suprising well thought out and offers a lot, manuevering, positioning, evading, shield systems, capital ships, are all fun figure out and overcome the challenges they offer. I had a lot of fun exploring the larger worlds, eavesdropping on rumors, journeying out and taking down imperial bases or solving puzzles. The combat kept me engaged since I felt like I plenty of options. I felt like I could pick my battles and disengage when I needed to. There's a faux surrender mechanic that would let you feel like misplaying stealth was less punishing. There are enviromental objects that greatly affect the battlefield. Shooting your classic red barrels to take out a slew enemies, or smoke to cover your escape, zippping up ropes to gain vantage points, a wide amount of blaster upgrades, and temporarily picking up enemy weapons had me thinking on the fly and kept me moving, utilizing the different mechanics as things wildly got out of hand. Stealth is a solid option as well, the enemies are simple and predictable and the game present some interesting enviromental challenges, while still keeping it fair and making full on stealth infiltrations possible.I throughly enjoyed my time with Star Wars: Outlaws. It has a lot of those iconic, Ubisoft-y, open world design to it, but a lot of the bloat and overused mechanics that people fatigued with Assassin's Creed removed. The cast of characters and story kept me invested and is definitely memorable. I would reccommend this if you're interested in a beautifully rendered, immersive Star Wars experience. Come for the Star Wars locales and story, stay for some hard-to-put-down rounds of Kessel Sabacc!

I waited on this one until April 2024 for a variety of reasons, mainly it’s a Ubisoft game, and they are better after the patches… The main character didn’t appeal either, but she and ND-5 ended up having a great story arc; I would play a Kay Vess game again.The game does little new, it blends uncharted and assassins creed (you have to do stealth) and has a pretty seperb space flight component. If don’t do your missions with stealth, you can lose faction ratings with the syndicates. Most importantly, it nails the atmosphere of Star Wars and blends components of all 3 trilogies.The bad… I got stuck many times trying to find the “yellow uncharted” ledges / walls. Many are hard to find and aren’t intuitive in a non linear game.I got the platinum and some of the trophies are hard, like the arcade high score. After about a 100 tries I got it in space shooter game. Key is to use the L1 bomb early and often and note some of the ships are worth 240 points, don’t miss those.

This game deserves better overall reviews across the board. Anyone who has given it a bad review, let's see you make a better game. For those who like open world games like RDR, Fallout, Days Gone, The Saboteur, etc... this game is a blast and completely captures the Star Wars vibe perfectly.

Really digging this game. It is very engaging and really highlights what an open world Star Wars game can be with the right game studio and developers in charge. Graphics as amazing. The worlds all feel lived in and it is Star Wars trademark atmosphere through and through. If you are a Star Wars, or even just a sci-fi fan, this is one game not to pass up. Best Game of the year for (Han) Solo play! Haha, see what I did there?

Cal Kestis and crew were likeable, these characters are not. Technically a good game, underwhelming story typical of Disney Star Wars. It is worth the current price of $30, no more than that.

So far 200 + hours of playtime love it was a lil different to get used to layout and movements lil different from previous Jedi game series