Ghost of Tsushima was the "biggest reference" for Star Wars Outlaws, says director

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Thu, 01 Aug 2024 09:39:59 +0000

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Star Wars Outlaws is inspired by many open world games, according to game director Julian Gerighty.

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Star Wars Outlaws is inspired by many open world games, according to game director Julian Gerighty.

In a recent interview with GamesRadar , Gerighty revealed that he was influenced by several popular role-playing games (RPGs) when creating the upcoming Star Wars game.

According to the director, Assassin's Creed Odyssey is one of his favorite Assassin's Creed games and was used as a reference point for creating the large zones in Outlaws , which he has previously said are roughly the same size as three Odyssey zones combined .

Gerighty said it was the "freedom of approach in a very large environment - with traversal [and] curiosity at its heart, with RPG light mechanics" that
he loved so much about the game and that there were Odyssey developers he would call to for pointers on Outlaws .

Just how George Lucas used Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's filmography as a source of inspiration when creating Star Wars , Gerighty explained that Sucker Punch Studios' 2020 samurai RPG, Ghost of Tsushima , was his "biggest reference" when creating his open world game, as well as Red Dead Redemption
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"It's super interesting because my biggest reference was Ghost of Tsushima , which is more on the Kurosawa side of inspiration than the Western, the John Ford side of the inspiration for George Lucas," Gerighty also told GamesRadar .

" Red Dead Redemption is phenomenal, [because it treats] the world as a world - not as a checklist of activities that are repeated often. But I think that Ghost of Tsushima , what I loved about it was this purity of having a player fantasy and really leaning into it. This is the story, the world, the character, everything fits together with the gameplay guiding everything. That's the fantasy of 'you are a samurai ninja in Japan.' That was one of the guiding lights for this."

Star Wars Outlaws is set to launch on August 30 for PS5 , Xbox Series X | S
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