Outcast is a game that I had my eye on for a very long time as it features one my favourite settings in video games; a foreign planet with aliens and a good story.
Knowing this is a remake of a fairly old voxel PC game, I went into this with an open mind. Unfortunately while the unfolding story was intriguing, everything else from the gameplay to exploration is subpar.
This is one of the very first open world action adventure games, and it shows. The world itself while looking cool and otherworldish, is just really a maze of boring design. It's a huge world too but mostly empty and filled with same-y locations.
The best part of Outcast is the questing system. It's kind of similar to Morrowind where you need to talk to individuals to uncover more information about the quest at hand, rather than just following a marker. The writing can be quite funny and charming and I enjoy some of the conversations you have here. This is where the positives end.
A lot of what you'll be doing in Outcast is shooting enemy soldiers, and unfortunately here it is just not fun. Enemies are really bad bullet spunges that are not fun to shoot at all. It can take a good while to kill 1 enemy in the beginning, and with this being an action adventure game, the action not being fun is a killer.
Exploration is also not too great as you'll be exploring one section that feels similar no matter where you are on the map. Back then, this game would have been revolutionary but today it is not so great.
I have shelved this, but I may come back to it one day to give it another chance if I ever want to play the sequel.
Knowing this is a remake of a fairly old voxel PC game, I went into this with an open mind. Unfortunately while the unfolding story was intriguing, everything else from the gameplay to exploration is subpar.
This is one of the very first open world action adventure games, and it shows. The world itself while looking cool and otherworldish, is just really a maze of boring design. It's a huge world too but mostly empty and filled with same-y locations.
The best part of Outcast is the questing system. It's kind of similar to Morrowind where you need to talk to individuals to uncover more information about the quest at hand, rather than just following a marker. The writing can be quite funny and charming and I enjoy some of the conversations you have here. This is where the positives end.
A lot of what you'll be doing in Outcast is shooting enemy soldiers, and unfortunately here it is just not fun. Enemies are really bad bullet spunges that are not fun to shoot at all. It can take a good while to kill 1 enemy in the beginning, and with this being an action adventure game, the action not being fun is a killer.
Exploration is also not too great as you'll be exploring one section that feels similar no matter where you are on the map. Back then, this game would have been revolutionary but today it is not so great.
I have shelved this, but I may come back to it one day to give it another chance if I ever want to play the sequel.