Star Wars Outlaws is a new open world game that will be released in 2024

Next year, Star Wars Outlaws will take us into the open world of the criminal underworld of the cult galaxy farč, farč away. As early as 2021, Ubisoft announced that it will publish a Star Wars open-world game in collaboration with Lucasfilm Games. Massive Entertainment, the studio behind The Division 2 and The Crew 2, is developing this sandbox space adventure, which will reportedly allow us to pilot a mix of classic spaceships and completely new creations on different planets.

The game was the firstč announced two years ago, then still under the name Project Helix. Since then, very little or better said nothing has been revealed. official information about the Ubisoft game. There were a lot of rumors, including some about the cancellation of the project, but nothing. concrete.

In January of this year, creative director Julian Gerighty tweeted about his mysterious Star Wars project. He announced that the year 2023 will be a turning point for his team, which of course started speculation about what kind of Star Wars game we can expect. At that time, it was rumored that the game could be released in early 2024.

Project Helix is now officially confirmed for next year, it even has an official name and some plot details. At the very beginning of the Xbox Games Showcase event, Massive Entertainment unveiled a trailer for Star Wars Outlaws, an open-world Star Wars game set sometime during the original film trilogy. This trailer opens with an unnamed female protagonist playing Sabacc in a canteen, telling how the galaxy “belongs to the Syndicate”. Her game is interrupted when a pair of bounty hunters arrive, forcing her and her smaller alien companion to flee.

A fight soon breaks out in the bar, which helps her escape. Outside, he climbs on a motorcycle while telling how he won't be anymoreč withheld. This search for freedom leads her to a ship, where a stranger named Jalen - who at first glance resembles the protagonist Kyle Katarn from the Dark Forces games - offers to help her. when performing an unspecified task.

Here's some more gameplay footage of the Syndicate and an official announcement for a 2024 release. Although no gameplay footage was shown in this trailer, it looks like Outlaws could be an interesting journey through a dark and complex crime scene. the underworld of the Star Wars galaxy. This kind of game style is still in the hearts of fans who have not yet recovered from the canceled Star Wars 1313 project, where they would have taken on the role of a bounty hunter. Perhaps Outlaws is a game where we will be able to explore this unexplored view of the Star Wars galaxy.