Ghost of Tsushima was the “biggest reference” for Star Wars Outlaws, says director
The director was also inspired by Red Dead Redemption
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Star Wars Outlawsis inspired by many open world games, according to game director Julian Gerighty.
In a recent interview withGamesRadar, Gerighty revealed that he was influenced by several popular role-playing games (RPGs) when creating the upcomingStar Warsgame.
According to the director,Assassin’s Creed Odysseyis one of his favoriteAssassin’s Creedgames and was used as a reference point for creating the large zones inOutlaws, which he has previously said areroughly the same size as threeOdysseyzones 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 wereOdysseydevelopers he would call to for pointers onOutlaws.
Just how George Lucas used Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s filmography as a source of inspiration when creatingStar 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 asRed Dead Redemption.
“It’s super interesting because my biggest reference wasGhost 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 toldGamesRadar.
“Red Dead Redemptionis phenomenal, [because it treats] the world as a world - not as a checklist of activities that are repeated often. But I think thatGhost 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.”
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Star Wars Outlawsis set to launch on August 30 forPS5,Xbox Series X|S, and PC.
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