Despite the overabundance of Star Wars in the last few years thanks to all of those middle-of-the-road Disney+ shows, there’s always been a bit of a white whale for those old enough to remember the pre-Disney era — that being LucasArts’ cancelled Star Wars 1313 . While we have an endless number of games where you play as someone with a lightsaber, 1313’s Uncharted -style approach caught our eye for a reason. Now, over 10 years after 1313’s sad demise, Ubisoft has picked up the ball with Star Wars Outlaws , an open world adventure game starring scoundrel Kay Vess and her little freak companion Nix.

Mixing Uncharted-style mission design with a cocktail of Ubisoft open world games, Outlaws has you patrol many of the famous locations from the films. Well, in theory that is. We had some hands-on time with Outlaws at Summer Game Fest .

But rather than being able to explore the galaxy at our own leisure, we were dropped into three specific scenarios that aimed to show off the different segments of the game, which struck us as a very strange way to show off an exploration-focused intergalactic adventure. The first segment of our demo — titled False Flag — kicked things off with a bang; Kay and Nix had to escape an imperial space station after destroying data belonging to the Empire. This segment gave us a bit of everything: gunfights, stealth, and dogfights in space.

The combat is a standard third-person shooting affair obviously, but there’s a focus on improvisation .