In a brand new video from Ubisoft about its upcoming Star Wars sport, the writer talked about creating an genuine Star Wars expertise. As a part of this, Outlaws will characteristic Tatooine, the galaxy’s most well-known (and overused) desert planet.
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In June, Ubisoft introduced Star Wars Outlaws, a brand new open-world motion sport that takes place between the occasions of The Empire Strikes Again and Return of the Jedi and stars scoundrel and thief Kay Vess. And since that is Star Wars, a franchise constructed on ragtag teams of individuals coming collectively, you received’t be alone: you’ll have a cute alien pet and an (in line with the web) oddly attractive droid accomplice. All of it seems to be nice, and for a lot of followers of the sci-fi sequence, it’s the open-world Star Wars sport they’ve been craving for many years. And in case you have been apprehensive that this huge, new Star Wars sport wouldn’t characteristic Tatooine, nicely, good(?) information: It does. After all, it does.
Of their July 23 video, Huge and Ubisoft revealed that Tatooine, first seen within the authentic Star Wars movie A New Hope, shall be one of many huge worlds gamers can go to and discover in Star Wars Outlaws. That’s high-quality, I suppose. Nevertheless it’s getting actually bizarre how this little backwater world is seemingly the middle of every thing.
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Huge says gamers will be capable of go to Mos Eisley, one other city that Obi-Wan and Luke Skywalker go to in Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope. It additionally appears that Jabba The Hutt shall be hanging out on the well-known planet, probably able to make a cope with gamers or screw them over in case you don’t do what he needs. He’s a cranky alien.
“It’s not nearly recreating Tatooine as you already know it,” stated Outlaws’ artwork and world director, Benedikt Podlesnigg. “Going again to the traditional sources of spaghetti westerns, we tried to recreate an genuine temper and really feel as we construct new factors of curiosity to comply with the already established historical past.”
And whereas that each one sounds good and good, I’m actually getting bored with having to re-explore Tatooine each time a brand new Star Wars film or sport launches. Even when Ubisoft guarantees new areas and concepts, it’s nonetheless that very same mud ball that’s been overrepresented in that well-known galaxy up to now, distant.
Please, cease making me go to Tatooine
Look, I’m a Star Wars nerd. I get why so many motion pictures, TV reveals, comics and video games maintain coming again to Tatooine. The desert planet is iconic. It’s one of many very first issues we ever noticed in Star Wars. It set the tone for the franchise and helped encourage the look of the sequence shifting ahead. Even individuals who don’t know a lot about Star Wars know concerning the desert planet with the 2 suns and the cantina. So to us followers of the franchise, it’s an essential place.
However in Star Wars, Tatooine was initially meant to be an out-of-the-way planet that no person actually cares a lot about. In Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan actually says it’s “small” and “out of the best way.” It’s a poor, crime-riddled wasteland that only a few individuals in the complete galaxy learn about or care to go to. It’s such a backwater planet that Obi-Wan can disguise on the market principally undetected.
Picture: Lucasfilm
Nonetheless, at this time, after many years of Star Wars media setting tales on Tatooine, Obi-Wan is beginning to appear like a idiot. The dude apparently picked one of many busiest and most well-known planets within the universe to cover Luke and himself on. Whoops!
I perceive that for a lot of creators—given the once-in-a-lifetime probability to recreate or revisit any planet within the galaxy—Tatooine is the dream. Probably the most iconic and well-known planet in one of many greatest franchises in human historical past. The birthplace of the sequence, the house of Anakin Skywalker, the hiding place of Obi-Wan Kenobi, the primary world the place we met Han Solo, and so on.
Let’s go to another planets and even some new locations
But, as a result of everybody so badly needs to revisit Tatooine and inform new tales concerning the world, it’s turned the place into probably the most boring and uninteresting location within the galaxy. Each time somebody like The Mandalorian, a brand new character on this universe, reveals up and hangs out on Tatooine—typically visiting a couple of key places for fan service—I sigh and roll my eyes.
There are such a lot of worlds in Star Wars which might be equally cool and crammed with chance. If you need to revisit a beforehand seen location, go some place else. Let’s go discover Utapu or Naboo or Ryloth. Perhaps take a look at Nar Shadda? Returning to the identical world time and again isn’t simply boring, it makes the universe really feel smaller and smaller.
To be honest to Huge and Ubisoft, Star Wars Outlaws additionally encompasses a new world, as defined within the behind-the-scenes video. And I believe that new planet, Toshara, seems to be nice! I like the thought of making a brand new Star Wars planet impressed by the African Savannah. That’s a legitimately recent and thrilling place that I wish to discover.
As for Tatooine, nicely, I’ve been a Star Wars fan my entire life. And that’s lengthy sufficient to know that I’ll be visiting Tatooine in video video games, books, comics, and films till the day I die. That rattling desert planet is simply too well-liked for its personal good.
