Star Wars Outlaws Review (Xbox Series X|S) | Gaming

Alright. Let’s not beat about the space bush here. We genuinely thought that Star Wars Outlaws could have turned out pretty bad. A mediocre-at-very-best sort of affair. Just reskin any old Ubisoft-style open world game with Star Wars stuff and be done with it. Money in the bank.

However, despite ourselves being so totally done with Ubi-style open world games (this writer in particular), over the past 35 or so hours we’ve been having an absolute blast with this game because of one very important aspect that Massive Entertainment has nailed. The vibes. The vibes in this one are immaculate in how they give you a Star Wars universe stripped of the usual Jedi/Empire pomposity and stifling politics.

This is lawless rogues and renegades, the slippery denizens of Mos Eisley cantina, criminal…