Report: Ubisoft's Open World Star Wars Game Is Blasting Towards Early 2024 Launch

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by Ben Kerry Tue 23rd May 2023

Report: Ubisoft's Open World Star Wars Game Is Blasting Towards Early 2024 Launch — *Image: Star Wars: Squadrons, EA*

Ubisoft hasn't exactly been prolific over the last few years. Lots of its upcoming lineup seems to continue to see delays — both public and internal — but a new report from outlet Kotaku at least gives us a little bit of hope for the team's upcoming Star Wars game.

According to the report, Ubisoft has this open world Star Wars project aiming for a current fiscal year release. Basically, they're expecting 'Project Helix' to come out between now and April 2024 as things stand.

However, even this release window target doesn't seem very assured. The outlet is also reporting that internally, some employees working on the project feel this release window is "probably too ambitious", and that a delay to the following fiscal year seems likely.

Ubisoft has issued a response to Kotaku's reporting, granting the typically vague answer of "we don’t comment on rumors or speculation". The company does have an upcoming 'Ubisoft Forward' event planned for June 12th, so we'll have to wait and see if the project shows up there.

Outside of Assassin's Creed Mirage, we really don't know much else about Ubisoft's upcoming lineup of titles, especially when it comes to release dates and windows. Remember Skull & Bones? Yeah... that one still hasn't launched nearly a decade after development first began. Here's hoping Star Wars is in for a smoother ride!

Would you like to play a Ubisoft-style open world Star Wars game? Let us know if this one is on your list!

[source kotaku.com]

Ben is a News Writer at Pure Xbox, and is a fan of action, racing and straight-up shootin' in any Xbox game he can get his hands on. When he's not clutching an Xbox controller like his life depends on it, Ben spends his time listening to music that's far too old for him, watching football on the telly and probably eating somewhere.

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BrilliantBill
Tue 23rd May 2023

I mean, between Mirage, the Avatar game and this SW game Ubi probably has the chance to make some serious money this year and ease the worries for its shareholders. Let's see if they manage to do it right or just put our three games broken at launch and ruin it all 😂.

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UltimateOtaku91
Tue 23rd May 2023

Funny how well and quick they can handle a huge IP yet Beyond Good and Evil 2 has been in development since 2016.....

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AlwaysPlaying
Tue 23rd May 2023

Seriously have little to no faith in this release window. Seems like they need to release some games but yet don’t release any games. Strange business model.

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MinervaX
Tue 23rd May 2023

I need this in my life!

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MinervaX
Tue 23rd May 2023

@UltimateOtaku91 Beyond Good and Evil 2 is a traps there is no way they can make the original justice and still be a game that can succeed against modern gaming exceptions.

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Kraven
Tue 23rd May 2023

I’ll have to pass. I used to love Ubisoft, but as of the past 10-15 years, if you’ve played one Ubisoft game then you have played them all.

Until they can evolve their open world formula, they will continue to be a mediocre business, which is sad to say since they were once one the top dogs in the industry.

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BAMozzy
Tue 23rd May 2023

It probably makes sense as Ubisoft also want 'games' to encourage more Gamers to Subscribe to Ubisoft+ and Star Wars is likely to pull players in - more so than 'Skull N Bones' and maybe even more so than AC Mirage, which seems like a much 'smaller' game.

I don't 'care' about ANY game until I have a 'good idea' of what that game is. I don't 'care' that its a 'Star Wars' game for example if it doesn't really offer the story or Game Play loop I want. Just like as a 'Marvel' fan, Avengers and Midnight Suns didn't appeal because of the 'Game-play' loop.

So until I have some idea of what the Game Play loop is, I don't care. I wouldn't 'buy' ANY game, just because its in a Licensed property I enjoy. It could be an 'on-rails QTE style game' - something I'd 'hate' to actually play for example, so I won't 'blindly' buy any game or get 'excited' by any project until at least I know what to 'expect'.

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iplaygamesnstuff
Tue 23rd May 2023

@BlackMayge I'm very critical of Ubisoft myself. Because it's Star Wars I will give it a try.

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rustyduck
Tue 23rd May 2023

hope its good so i can buy it.

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lechugajr
Tue 23rd May 2023

@BrilliantBill Same. Hoping it's not the case that they had to come up with something for investment community to buy another quarter before owning up.