Ubisoft enchanted fans with the premiere trailer for Star Wars Outlaws Who Kyle Katarn Is (& What It Means For SW Canon)

Star Wars Outlaws Unsurprisingly Features Tatooine

A still from Star Wars Outlaws' reveal trailer, showing Han Solo frozen in carbonate being escorted on Tatooine, its iconic dual stars in the background.

Ubisoft's take on a sub-legal adventure in the Star Wars universe is a bold new vision, but it needs to go beyond what players will expect to succeed. Without any of the trailer content for context, it's reasonable to assume any Star Wars game with the subtitle Outlaws would involve the planet Tatooine. It's been showcased as a hub for criminal activity from the very beginning of the franchise, when it appeared as Luke's impoverished homeworld in A New Hope. It featured again in Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, and much more. Fans know it's a crime hotspot, and Star Wars Outlaws needs to go beyond this to bring players to exciting new locations for story and side content.

Star Wars Has A Whole Galaxy Of Opportunity For Outlaws

Concept art for Star Wars outlaws, showing Kay walking down the street of a busy city. Circular doorways reveal shadily-lit interiors, in which unknown silhouettes move about. In the distance is an obelisk-shaped skyscraper.

As Twitter Tatooine has become even more prominent in Star Wars content with the newest additions to the series by Disney. Early footage for Star Wars Outlaws picture main character Kay Vess on Tatooine alongside a few other scenes depicting the desert planet. The combat and speeder bike traversal seen in the gameplay demonstration is ittedly flashy, but even the gameplay's novelty isn't enough to make Tatooine fresh. There are plenty of other iconic Star Wars planets the game could dazzle players with, and luckily it is confirmed that players will travel to a variety of other planets, including Kijimi, a frozen planet with a cliff-side city.

The list of worlds Outlaws could visit is extensive, considering the full range of Star Wars' canon locales. There are iconic locations from the movies like the forest moon of Endor or molten Mustafar, and even new planets added by extended series Andor, like Ferrix in the Free Trade Sector. There is such a wide breadth of environments a renegade like Kay Vess might visit, smuggling, stealing, and sabotaging for credits. The success of the bold, morally gray Star Wars Outlaws depends on Ubisoft's ability to sur tired expectations like the old story of lawbreakers on Tatooine.

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