Star Wars: Outlawswas one of many reasons Sunday’sXboxShowcase went down a storm with most who tuned in. However,its gameplay revealshowed that we will once again be tasked with visiting Tatooine. And fans aren’t happy.
Tatooine was one of the first planets introduced to the series. It’s where we first met Luke Skywalker in A New Hope, supposedly a remote planet that played host to very little action. The perfect place to hide a young Jedi from Darth Vader. However, the amount of times we’ve been back via movies, shows, and games suggests Tatooine might as well be the center of a galaxy far, far away.
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Han Solo was shown encased in carbonite during the Outlaws reveal trailer, confirming the events of the game will unfold between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. That means Luke is long gone, busy learning the ways of the Jedi while hatching a plan to save his friend while taking down the Empire in one fell swoop. With him out of the way, we can pull off our own heist, one that takes us back to the remote, sandy planet that we’ve visited across myriad shows, games, and movies, from The Phantom Menace to Knights of the old Republic to The Mandalorian and everything in-between.
The most common complaint is that in a fictional series whose reach is supposed to span an entire galaxy, we repeatedly end up visiting the same planet. Succinctly put byDar1Mori, “There are millions of unexplored planets why tf do we keep going back to Tatooine?”
Another fan has asked whether visiting Tatooine is optional. The glimpse at Han in carbonite makes it seem highly unlikely Tatooine can be omitted from your Outlaws journey, regardless of how open-worldUbisoft’s new Star Wars game is going to be. On the bright side, Kijimi will be another planet Kay Vess visits. Somewhere we’ve been before, but not nearly as much as Tatooine.
In Outlaws' defence, having to revisit everyone’s favourite Star Wars location seems to be one of very few complaints fans have about the game so far. Gameplay of the open-world adventure was shown during today’s Ubisoft Forward, including the revealplayers will control Vess’s adorable little companion. It really wouldn’t be a Star Wars project if there wasn’t a new little critter to fall in love with, although until I’ve seen more, BD-1 still has my heart.
