Star Wars: Outlaws open-world game gets trailer at Xbox Showcase 2023

Microsoft had an enormous shock reveal at its Xbox Showcase showcase on Sunday: A primary take a look at the Ubisoft’s new Star Wars recreation being developed by Huge Leisure, the group behind Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. The sport known as Star Wars: Outlaws, and it’s set to be launched someday in 2024.

The trailer reveals the sport’s protagonist, a younger girl who foregoes the easy black-and-white morality of the Sith and the Jedi in favor of the fragile grays of smugglers, rogues, and hustlers that fill the remainder of the galaxy. We see her and her cute pet enjoying playing cards earlier than the crime syndicates that rule the realm come calling; then, we get a swift chase on a speeder to our heroine’s ready ship. The trailer additionally introduces her good friend Jalen, who appears to co-pilot the ship.

Our first take a look at Star Wars: Outlaws additionally consists of some spectacular area flight sequences, however for now, all the things we’ve seen is simply cinematic and doesn’t inform us a lot about how the sport will really play. For that, followers must wait till the Ubisoft Ahead occasion on Monday, the place this trailer promised we’d get our first take a look at gameplay.

Beforehand recognized merely as “The Star Wars Venture,” Huge’s new Star Wars recreation was introduced in early 2021 as a story-driven open-world online game set in a galaxy far, far-off. Julian Gerighty, inventive director on the studio’s Star Wars recreation, mentioned on the recreation’s announcement that the undertaking could be “completely totally different” from what Huge had executed up to now. Yves Guillemot, CEO of Ubisoft, known as the announcement “the start of a long-term collaboration with Disney and Lucasfilm Video games.”

Star Wars: Outlaws is only one of many new Star Wars video games in improvement. Developer Respawn Leisure, which launched Star Wars Jedi: Survivor in April, has a minimum of two extra Star Wars video games on its slate: A brand new first-person shooter and a method recreation. Skydance New Media has an untitled Star Wars recreation within the works, which is being helmed by former Uncharted inventive director Amy Hennig. Quantic Dream additionally has Star Wars: Eclipse, which it describes as “an intricately branching action-adventure recreation” set throughout Star Wars’ Excessive Republic period.