However, it’s not just the loot giving you more numbers to go up.
There’s a steady supply of new guns and armor to be found, each of which looks just a little more unique than the last one did. Being a looter shooter, there’s plenty of looting to be done in Outriders. Thankfully, there were always options if I wanted to do something else for a while. A late game boss fight kept causing me to bash my head into a wall, especially since it was multi-part with no checkpoints. One fight saw the game spawn several bullet-sponge behemoths in an arena that was already flooded with other enemies. You need to do this occasionally, as Outriders sometimes likes to throw extreme difficulty bumps at you. I found out which difficulty I found acceptable playing solo, when I needed to lower or raise it, and what I could bring it to when I invited friends to play. It helps that the game also has an extremely smart difficulty setting that allows you to adjust how hard you want the game to be. You’re always jumping around, gunning down enemies and performing rad special attacks.
However, while that game had you locked into awkward finishing animations that you could still get hurt during, the pace in Outriders never slows down. For the Pyromancer I only got health back if I hit marked targets, and I could mark targets by hurting them with my abilities.įor those who played Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, the concept of healing by hurting may sound familiar. A lot of this is helped by a smart decision the game also makes: you can only heal by dealing damage. It’s fast, frantic, and simply feels great. I would fire some rounds into an enemy, dodge roll, toss a wall of flame up, then dive for cover before jumping out of it and making lava spew from the ground. In a single firefight I’d jump from cover to cover, not really using it as cover but instead as a way to travel quickly around the battlefield. However, that’s selling it a little short. In an absolutely basic sense, Outriders is a third-person shooter where you can equip three abilities that can help you in combat. Then I turned a man into a living bomb and honestly stopped worrying about the story. It feels like two halves of unconnected stories awkwardly stitched together. Weirder still, halfway through the game almost all the plot threads are just dropped and never brought up again, with a bunch of new ones showing up. You’ll meet some characters that hang out with you for an extended period of time, but as soon as they were off-screen I forgot their names. The idea is fine, but for the most part it’s just b-movie schlock. What follows it you trying to figure out what happened while you were asleep, what you can do to save humanity, and attempting to get to the bottom of the magic power storms. Thankfully, you’re among that small percentage. In addition to this, there’s storms that kill most people, but give a very small percentage super magical abilities. When you wake up again you find Enoch has devolved into endless wars and the exact same destruction that forced humanity off Earth is happening again.
Unfortunately, things don’t go quite as planned and you get shoved into cryosleep, spending another 30-ish years out of it. You play as an Outrider, who is among the first to step on the planet of Enoch. The general plot has a group of people evacuating Earth on a colony ship after it becomes uninhabitable due to humanity polluting it. I personally went with the pyromancer, which meant I was throwing walls of fire and turning my bullets into little flaming rounds. On the other hand, the devastator can manipulate earth and gets health back for killing enemies in close range combat. For example, the technomancer can deploy turrets and heals every time they deal damage. The game lets you pick from one of four classes, each with their own powersets and quirks. It’s strange how much of a switch was flipped, but as soon as the powers came in, Outriders dramatically improved. Then I got my powers and everything was okay. It’s an awful first impression that had me deeply worried for the rest of the game. This is followed by overly long tutorials, dull cover-shooter segments, a pair of bullet sponge boss fights, and a very long truck ride.
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The opening cutscene is full of awkward cuts and constantly changes aspect ratio from widescreen to fullscreen every time it cuts. The problem is that the first hour or two doesn’t give that impression at all.
I’ll just spoil this now, but I really enjoyed Outriders. Was it worth riding out to meet Outriders? However, when it showed up I decided to give it an honest shot. It looked fine, but it wasn’t a video game I was actively anticipating. I feel like a review should be honest, so let me start with an honest statement.
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Available on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S
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