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Star Wars Battlefront: Outer Rim

Blast enemies in the smelting factory or along the industrial pipes and platforms of Sullust or fight through Jabba’s throne room and sail barge garage on Tatooine. New playable hero characters will have you…

68 22 March 2016 ESRB T

Star Wars Battlefront: Outer Rim is a shooter developed by EA Digital Illusions CE, released 22 March 2016 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Star Wars Battlefront: Outer Rim is

Star Wars Battlefront: Outer Rim is a shooter game developed by EA Digital Illusions CE and released in 2016. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Frostbite. It carries an ESRB T age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Blast enemies in the smelting factory or along the industrial pipes and platforms of Sullust or fight through Jabba’s throne room and sail barge garage on Tatooine. New playable hero characters will have you shooting first with Greedo or targeting foes with precision as Nien Nunb. Arm yourself with the new Relby-v10 rifle and DT-12 blaster pistol and collect and equip the Scatter Gun, Dioxis Grenade, and Adrenaline Stim Star Cards. The Outer Rim awaits.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Star Wars series

Star Wars Battlefront: Outer Rim is the 244th of 334 entries we hold in the Star Wars series. The next entry was Star Wars: Rebel Assault I + II in 2016. Its critic score of 68 is 3 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Angry Birds Star Wars II at 100.

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How it was received

Star Wars Battlefront: Outer Rim holds a critic score of 68 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Star Wars Battlefront: Outer Rim launched on 22 March 2016, within three weeks of Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman and Ratchet & Clank. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Tom Clancy's The Division, Dark Souls III, Hitman, Ratchet & Clank.

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When did Star Wars Battlefront: Outer Rim come out?
Star Wars Battlefront: Outer Rim was released on 22 March 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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