Star Wars Outlaws' Maps Sizes Compared To Jedi: Survivor's

Summary

In many of its promotional showcases, Ubisoft has billedStar Wars Outlawsas the first open-world Star Wars title. However,last year’sStar Wars Jedi: Survivoralso featured large hub worlds to explore, which is bound to spark some comparison between the two as players attempt to figure out which game’s map is bigger.

Star Wars Outlawssees the up-and-coming scoundrel Kay Vess failing a heist in her home of Canto Bight, the coastal casino city on the desert planet Cantonica, and being forced to go on the run from the ruthless syndicate Zerek Besh, after its leader, Sliro, put out a Death Mark on her. While Cantonica is only available in the select story sections, as Kay begins the game there and later returns to attempt a major heist with the crew she’s spent most of the game assembling,there are four main planets for players to explore once the open-world opens up: Toshara, Kijimi, Akiva, and theiconicStar Warslocation, Tatooine.

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How Big Is Star Wars Outlaws' Open World?

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In an interview withIGNbeforeStar Wars Outlaws' launch, the game’s creative director, Julian Gerighty, revealed that the game’splanets would be roughly the size of two or three zones in one of Ubisoft’s previous open-world titles,Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.Assassin’s Creed Odysseyand its sequel,Assassin’s Creed Valhalla,both faced criticism for havingoverly large maps that could feel quite intimidatingin scale or for not having enough to do while getting from one point to another. Fortunately, the smaller scale ofStar Wars Outlaws, along with the fact that its map is split between different planets with unique biomes to keep exploration interesting, makes it feel far more approachable.

According to Gerighty, Massive Entertainment’s unique location for the game, a savannah moon named Toshara, is closer in size to Akiva and Tatooine, with Tatooine seeming slightly bigger than the others. While Gerighty didn’t reveal whether Kijimi and Cantonica were the same size as the others at the time, those who have played the game will note that they seem to be significantly smaller in scale, with Cantonica being somewhat more linear due to its place in the story. Kijimi’s map consists just of Kijimi City and is more traversable on foot, which makes it seem notably smaller in scale than Akiva, Tatooine, and Toshara, where it’s far more preferable to use a speeder to get around, andthere’s a much larger area to explore outside their main cities.

As noted by Gerighty, Massive’s approach to buildingStar Wars Outlawswas less about how big the team could make its open world, but how long it would take to traverse. It takes players approximately four to five minutes to travel all the way around Toshara - and therefore about the same for Tatooine and Akiva, once certain upgrades are available to get across the deeper water on the latter - when using Kay’s speeder bike.

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How Do Star Wars Outlaws' Planets Compare To Jedi: Survivor’s?

WhileStar Wars Outlaws' story takes place across five main locations,Star Wars Jedi: Survivorhas six main locationsto explore: Coruscant, Koboh, Jedha, Tanalorr, an abandoned moon above Koboh, and the asteroid Nova Garon. However, as Cal Kestis didn’t have a speeder to get around on,the size of many of these maps were much smaller, making them more accessible on foot or via mountswhile using the Force and gadgets such as a grapple - something Kay also has in her inventory - to get around.

While there are larger, more open-world hubs, such as Kestis' base planet Koboh, or the vast deserts of the Pilgrim moon, Jedha, present inStar Wars: Jedi Survivor, many are almost more linear in their design, which is likely why Ubisoft marketedStar Wars Outlawsas being a more open world entry in the franchise. There’s also the added component of space combat and exploration inStar Wars Outlawsto consider.

While Cal and the Stinger Mantis crew could hop between planets, the sections in which they were in space showed the characters inside the ship, rather than letting players fly the ship themselves.InStar Wars Outlaws, however, Kay can fly her ship, The Trailblazer, around each of the planets' orbits, helping to protect smugglers from pirates, collect materials from derelict or completely decimated ships, or engage in combat with the Empire before using an Imperial Satellite to lose the inevitable Wanted status.

WhereasStar Wars Jedi: Survivoronly allowed players to fast travel between meditation points on the same planet but not between planets,Star Wars Outlawslets players hop between planets at any time, provided they’ve already unlocked the fast travel points required.This essentially combines all of the game’s planets into one seamless map, which would, therefore, make it a larger open-world experience thanJedi: Survivor’s hubs, considering the larger scale of Toshara, Akiva, and Tatooine. However, it should be noted that the maps on each ofStar Wars Outlaws' planets have limits, much likeJedi: Survivor, and players can’t just go around the entire planet, so there are limitations to the open world.

BothStar Wars Jedi: SurvivorandStar Wars Outlawsoffer exploration with experiences that are well suited to their titular characters and their skillsets. Therefore,while technicallyJedi: Survivormay be smaller, it still feels impressively largebecause Cal and his allies are exploring more of it on foot, using parkour, animal mounts and other abilities, whereas Kay being able to get around with a vehicle means that she can cover far greater distances in a similar time it would take Cal to get to an objective, but her speeder likely wouldn’t work inJedi: Survivor’s maps as she’d get across them far too quickly.