Ubisoft Has Reportedly Scrapped A Sequel To Star Wars Outlaws
Star Wars Outlaws was a pretty decent game when it launched last year, but in today's brutal cutthroat industry, "pretty decent" doesn't cut it for the biggest publishers out there. Ubisoft has outright stated that Star Wars Outlaws is considered a failure at the company, suggesting that it was due to the Star Wars brand being in "choppy water" at the time of its release. Yep, that was the problem.
More likely, the game was a bomb thanks to its frustrating stealth sections, drab story, and our collective fatigue of Ubisoft's cookie-cutter open-world format, but it was a bomb nonetheless. It reportedly sold pretty poorly - dropping Ubisoft's stocks at the time - and launched to rather mild reviews, but it would have been nice to potentially see a sequel in which developer Massive Entertainment could polish things up and refine ideas they already had.
Unfortunately, Star Wars Outlaws is now doomed to become another long-forgotten Ubisoft open-world game, especially since it seems as though the publisher has no intention of working with the game again. According to Ubisoft insider Tom Henderson, the company's opinion of Star Wars Outlaws has changed so radically that it cancelled a sequel to the game that had been planned.
This comes from the latest episode of Insider Gaming's weekly podcast (at around the 46-minute-mark), during which Henderson claims that Ubisoft had planned on making Star Wars Outlaws 2, but scrapped "very, very, very early" plans to start production.
"They also recently cancelled Star Wars Outlaws 2, because that was planned and in the works," says Henderson. "It didn't enter production, as far as I know, it wasn't set in stone."
Of course, games get cancelled all the time without our knowledge, and it sounds as though Star Wars Outlaws 2 never really got off the ground as a full-scale production, but it's interesting to know that we could have potentially got a sequel had the original game faired a bit better commercially and critically. Then again, this is the same publisher that has pumped out 14 mainline Assassin's Creed games, so a sequel probably would have been expected.
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