The Star Wars Outlaws release date sends us back to a galaxy far, far away this summer
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TheStar Wars Outlawsrelease date has been announced, confirming a summer excursion to a galaxy far, far away -for real, this time.
As for the trailer itself, we start to get a bit more of a sense of what Star Wars Outlaws is all about. We already knew that it wouldbe set between the events of The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but now we’ve started to get a clearer idea of what’s set to happen. Kay is trying to make a name for herself in the galaxy’s famously lawless Outer Rim while the Empire is distracted fighting the Rebellion. Unfortunately, in doing so she runs afoul of crime lord Sleero.
Slightly more fortunately, she comes across someone who seems to want to help her pull off the classic ‘one last job’ - to secure her freedom, all Kay will have to do is rob Sleero blind and make out like a bandit. That ‘someone’ is Jaylen -although given he looks an awful lot like classic Star Wars video game hero Kyle Katarn, Jaylen might not be all that he makes out to be.
Elsewhere, there’s plenty of peeks at the wider Star Wars universe; a cynical Mon Calamari warns Kay about the perils of her new life; a brush with Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine seems to stitch pretty close in with clips of Han Solo’s carbonite form and what seems like a very intimate encounter with a Sarlacc; and an array of both new and new and familiar faces rounds out what amounts to a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than you’ll find between here and Mos Eisley.
Star Wars Outlaws tells a tight story across specific locations with “strong, thriving underworlds” – but your reputation could change everything.
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