Star Wars Outlaws Does This One Thing Better Than Starfield

allows players to explore an open-world depiction of several planets in the galaxy's Outer Rim. Several iconic locations from the Star Wars universe are fully explorable, with impressive attention to detail as Kay lives the scoundrel lifestyle, dealing with a variety of brokers and syndicates to get enough jobs to build a reputation and make a name for herself. Just last year, however, another AAA release launched focusing on open-world space exploration: , and it's easy to draw comparisons between the two titles' open-world goals and spot the differences in how they went about achieving them, with one key feature that did much better.

Bethesda's space RPG,, and Massive Entertainment's action-adventure title,, both feature open-world exploration with space combat and the opportunity to deal with some shadier organizations — entirely depending on players' choices in the case of Starfield. However, the two take a different approach to how their maps are put together, with featuring fewer explorable planets — it has 5, compared to 's 1000 — that are entirely handcrafted and packed with details for fans. While also features handcrafted planets for specific story and quest locations, many criticized the majority of the game's planets for feeling empty and lifeless due to them being procedurally generated.

Star Wars Outlaws focuses on a grimier, seedier side of the universe with a rich, detailed open world that features both new and legacy characters.

Ultimately, the process of going from space to landing on a planet or launching from a planet into space is the same in both games. Players in space can select a landing zone or point of interest to land on from a planet's orbit, and to get off a planet, they simply need to get to their starship's cockpit and launch it.

does this better, however, by making it feel like a more seamless experience as The Trailblazer goes through the atmosphere and into the new zone. It's hardly a secret that this is an animation to cover a