There’s no rule that says that an open world space game has to look at other open world space games for inspiration, but if the upcoming Star Wars Outlaws did need to look at a game for lessons on what to do and what not to do, it wouldn’t need to look too far, with Starfield having released less than a year ago.
From the seamlessness of the open world to how it approaches handcrafted content, from the variety in environments that you’ll be traversing to how it is handling its factions, the way they will tie into choice and consequence mechanics, and more, in more ways than one, Star Wars Outlaws is already seemingly taking a lot of right lessons in terms of learning from Starfield’s mistakes.
Here, we discuss all of that and more.