Summary

  • Star Wars Outlaws creative director Julian Gerighty revealed that the game’s planets will be roughly the size of two or three zones in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
  • The game's planets include Tatooine, a Toshara moon, Akiva, Kijimi, and Cantonica.
  • The dev team decided to aim for quality over quantity, with a focus on packed fun and diverse activities across a smaller space.

Star Wars Outlaws creative director Julian Gerighty recently shared some insight into how large the game’s planets will be and how long it could take players to navigate through them. Announced way back in 2021, Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment’s Star Wars Outlaws is the first open-world game set in the Star Wars universe, with players taking the role of an aspiring scoundrel named Kay Vess as she tries to pull off the biggest heist in the history of the Outer Rim.

To do so, Kay will need to travel across several classic Star Wars planets and make some shaky alliances with various criminal organizations. Star Wars Outlaws has already promised a variety of different activities for players to partake in while navigating the Outer Rim, such as smuggling missions, spaceship battles, and even the famous card game Sabacc. There will even be a Grand Theft Auto-style wanted system, with Kay having to evade escalating Imperial forces should she run afoul of the Galactic Empire.

Kay Vess from Star Wars Outlaws holding blaster next to Nathan Drake
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In a recent interview with IGN, Star Wars Outlaws creative director Julian Gerighty revealed that the game’s planets, consisting of Tatooine, a Toshara moon, Akiva, Kijimi, and Cantonica, will be roughly the size of two or three zones in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. According to him, the Toshara moon is close in size to Akiva and Tatooine, though he believes that Tatooine is slightly bigger. Gerighty remained tight-lipped on whether Kijimi and Cantonica are the same size but did state that it could take Kay about four to five minutes to travel all the way around Toshara (and possibly Akiva and Tatooine) on her speeder bike.

Star Wars Outlaws’ Planets Might Be Smaller Than Expected

Gerighty noted that this travel time would only apply to players going directly from one end of Tosharra to the other nonstop without being distracted by any Star Wars Outlaws missions or side activities they might encounter on the way. Ubisoft has previously confirmed that Star Wars Outlaws will take most gamers approximately 25 to 30 hours to complete if they simply stick with the main storyline, making it more compact than other Ubisoft-published open-world titles. Gerighty says that his team is taking a “quality over quantity” approach with Star Wars Outlaws and that they don’t want it to be “big for big sake.”

Instead, Gerighty and Massive Entertainment felt that Star Wars Outlaws should be “contained, always fun, and always proposing different activities,” and that the team thought about Star Wars Outlaws’ planets in terms of how long it would take to travel across them rather than how big they are. In that sense, Star Wars Outlaws will offer up explorable worlds that might not seem that vast on paper, but are teaming with things to do and characters to meet on Kay’s mission to become the most famous criminal in the galaxy.

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Star Wars Outlaws
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August 30, 2024
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Experience the first-ever open world Star Wars game and explore distinct planets across the galaxy, both iconic and new. Risk it all as Kay Vess, an emerging scoundrel seeking freedom and the means to start a new life. Fight, steal, & outwit your way through the galaxy’s crime syndicates as you join the galaxy’s most wanted. If you’re willing to take the risk, the galaxy is full of opportunity.

DISCOVER A GALAXY OF OPPORTUNITY
Explore distinct planets with bustling cities and cantinas before racing across sprawling outdoor landscapes on your speeder. Each planet brings new adventures, unique challenges, and enticing rewards if you’re willing to take the risk.

EXPERIENCE AN ORIGINAL SCOUNDREL STORY
Live the high-stakes lifestyle of an outlaw. With Nix by your side, turn any situation to your advantage: fight with your blaster, overcome enemies with stealth and gadgets, or find the right moments to distract enemies and gain the upper hand.

EMBARK ON HIGH-STAKES MISSIONS
Take on high-risk, high-reward missions from the galaxy’s crime syndicates. Steal valuable goods, infiltrate secret locations, and outwit enemies as one of the galaxy’s most wanted. Every choice you make influences your ever-changing reputation.

JUMP INTO THE PILOT SEAT
Pilot your ship, The Trailblazer, as you engage in thrilling dogfights with The Empire and other foes, finding the right opportunities to chase, evade, and attack to get the upper hand.

Developer(s)
Massive Entertainment
Publisher(s)
Ubisoft, Lucasfilm Games
Franchise
Star Wars
Genre(s)
Open-World, Action-Adventure
A screenshot of Kay Vess shooting Stormtroopers in Star Wars Outlaws.