Star Wars Outlaws director Julian Gerighty has admitted to being a “little disenchanted” in the Ubisoft recreation’s evaluate scores but has dedicated to making it higher.
Gerighty informed GamesRadar that Star Wars Outlaws — which earned a 7/10 in IGN’s evaluate and presently sits at a 76/100 on Metacritic — introduced him and the staff a “stage of pleasure, happiness, and sense of accomplishment” but he nonetheless needed a greater vital reception.
“I am a little bit disenchanted with the Metacritic,” Gerighty mentioned. “After all, recognition from press and critics is essential to us, but gamers are actually connecting with what we did.”
He continued: “It is introduced me a lot pleasure to see the unbelievable photos being captured and shared. And I feel that is proof optimistic that that is an expertise like no different Star Wars expertise earlier than, that allows you to step into this world and luxuriate in some digital tourism.”
Star Wars Outlaws is the first open-world Star Wars recreation and already has a Season Move introduced, making post-launch assist inevitable, but Gerighty appears keen to add to the expertise past that.
“This can be a recreation that tens of millions of persons are going to play for years and years, and we’re by no means going to cease bettering it,” he mentioned. “Effectively, that is a lie. We’ll most likely cease bettering it, but right this moment my thoughts just isn’t on stopping bettering it.”
It is going to finally be up to Ubisoft how a lot time is spent on Star Wars Outlaws, in fact, and the writer has already confronted criticism from some followers for its practices surrounding the recreation.
It was the newest instance in an business large motion to cost a minimal of $109.99 to these trying to play on its August 27, 2024 launch date, with these solely prepared to spend the customary $69.99 compelled to wait till August 30 to get began.
Those that did pay extra did not all have a clean expertise both, as some PS5 gamers had been compelled to restart their video games following a last-minute replace, and solely obtained middling compensation from Ubisoft as an apology.
The aforementioned Season Move has additionally drawn criticism, as alongside offering entry to the story expansions coming later, it locked away some content material that was in any other case prepared to go at launch.
Ubisoft shares fell in worth following the launch of Star Wars Outlaws, with some analysts predicting lower-than-expectated gross sales of the recreation. Ubisoft has but to touch upon its efficiency.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.