Star Wars Outlaws lead wants you to know it's not just another Ubisoft open-world game: "We are hyper conscious of the Ubisoft house style ... Massive is quite unique"

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"And Star Wars itself suggested some different ways of doing things"

Star Wars Outlaws: Kay and Nix travel on a speeder across the planet of Toshara
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Julian Gerighty, creative director of Ubisoft's Massive Entertainment, says Star Wars Outlaws won't be like most Ubisoft open-world games.

Talking to GamesIndustry, Gerighty laid out two key reasons why he thinks Star Wars Outlaws will surprise anyone expecting a typical Ubisoft open-world game set in a galaxy far, far away.

For our Star Wars Outlaws preview, Gerighty told us the concept of an open-world Star Wars game spawned from a single sentence that also serves as a compact synopsis and admittedly effective elevator pitch for the game: "Be a scoundrel in a galaxy of wonder and opportunity." We also called it "one of the most ambitious open-world games" of the year, so there's reason to be hopeful about Star Wars Outlaws breaking out of the Ubisoft open-world mold and doing something special.

Even the open-world itself is structurally very different from a traditional map, letting players loose in five different planets that comprise the Outer Rim, and although most of them should only take around five minutes to cross from one end to the other on a speeder, Gerighty maintains that "once you're committed it's a fairly large amount and you are always going to be distracted." For more on the game's scale and the associated technical demands. For more on that, don't miss our chat with Star Wars Outlaws' directors on the technical demands of its seamless open world.

And for more still, read our piece on the making of Star Wars Outlaws' galaxy: "We instantly realized that the true Star Wars open-world experience needs to go beyond planet surfaces".

Jordan Gerblick
Jordan Gerblick

After earning an English degree from ASU, I worked as a corporate copy editor while freelancing for places like SFX Magazine, Screen Rant, Game Revolution, and MMORPG on the side. I got my big break here in 2019 with a freelance news gig, and I was hired on as GamesRadar's west coast Staff Writer in 2021. That means I'm responsible for managing the site's western regional executive branch, AKA my home office, and writing about whatever horror game I'm too afraid to finish.