The reviews on Steam really miss the mark. Overall, this game is good and the best/only open world Star Wars experience. However, the negatives I have are very different from other Steam reviews. The developers did a great job making your decisions affect the gameplay. You have to choose which syndicates you like and want to improve rep with, generally at the expense of another syndicate. This affects the gear you can buy in the early game. By late game, it looks like you can get max rep with all the syndicates by completing carefully selected jobs that do not anger a rival syndicate.

My big negatives would be that I cannot buy/sell/use different guns, ships, or speeder bikes. For example, I cannot steal a Scout Trooper's speeder bike, even though they are standing 10 feet away on guard duty. I am hugely disappointed that I cannot fulfill my childhood Episode 6 fantasy. But for the most part, this game scratches a unique itch for me that no other Star Wars game comes close to scratching.

The reviews on Steam really miss the mark. Overall, this game is good and the best/only open world Star Wars experience. However, the negatives I have are very different from other Steam reviews. The developers did a great job making your decisions affect the gameplay. You have to choose which syndicates you like and want to improve rep with, generally at the expense of another syndicate. This affects the gear you can buy in the early game. By late game, it looks like you can get max rep with all the syndicates by completing carefully selected jobs that do not anger a rival syndicate. My big negatives would be that I cannot buy/sell/use different guns, ships, or speeder bikes. For example, I cannot steal a Scout Trooper's speeder bike, even though they are standing 10 feet away on guard duty. I am hugely disappointed that I cannot fulfill my childhood Episode 6 fantasy. But for the most part, this game scratches a unique itch for me that no other Star Wars game comes close to scratching.