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Star Wars Outlaws review - stripped-back Ubisoft formula is admirable yet doomed (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 2 months ago by nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works to c/games@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 points 2 months ago

I thought this was an excellent review, as usual from Eurogamer. They may be the gaming equivalent of junk food, but this quote is a pretty nice summary of the folly of stripping back a Ubisoft open world:

(...)Ubisoft open worlds are not only fun because of their formula; they are their formula. To strip it away isn't like peeling off some old wallpaper to reveal the original brickwork. It's lifting up the carpet to find a whacking great hole in the ground.