I’m nearly sure that I pitched Star Wars Outlaws to my mate Manky Kev after we had been about 14. “All of the Star Wars video games are about Jedis or fighter pilots, probably the most boring bastards in the entire saga”, I undoubtedly stated, with the eloquence of a me 3 times my age. “You need a sport the place you get to be a baddie, however a very good baddie, not a Sith, and it’s open world like GTA. And also you’re Han Solo however earlier than he began hanging round with Jedis and fighter pilots.”
I bear in mind this actually vividly. Manky Kev threatened to kick my head in if I got here out with any extra Star Wars patter and the concept was misplaced to time. Besides, apparently, somebody at Ubisoft pinched it from me and each different 90s teenager who favored Star Wars and GTA and wished them smooshed collectively.
And yeah, after a long time of shifting participant tastes, style convergence, and the overall rise of Ubisoft’s Open World Components™, evaluating this decidedly Watch_Dogsy tackle Disney’s twenty fourth Acquisition to GTA may come off as a bit Boss Child. You may’t even steal different individuals’s speeders. I checked, there isn’t even a immediate. Ubisoft are very critical about making you have interaction with the velocity bike improve system, to the purpose the place a techy-minded profession prison like Kay Vess would canonically fairly pay legitimately for a greater car than simply, y’know, pinch one.