Outwars

As a fan of retrò gaming, I must admit I didn't enjoy Outwars in its prime time, so you'll find no nostalgia here ( besides for any game from the 90', but that's another matter entirely). Outwars is a fun take on the star trooper trope with third person action and a jet pack system that basically is essential to complete the game. How well it does it? even to this day , I must say : not perfect but enjoyable and fun enough. Although there are some section of the game ( I've played only the single campaign mode) where you get blown up with some enemies attacks that makes no sense ( unless you are well versed in the jet pack system) since you are supposed to be in sorta of tank suit , all in all the game's level are big and their design have some though behind it ( however, most of them resembles an arena shooter, which is not my preference I must say),. On top of that, you can choose your load out and team composition and the objectives are enough to give something fresh to keep the player playing. I'll not speak about the graphics per se: it's the 90', so everything in 3D was kind of wobbling, but they do have some charm to it, and the overall design is appropriate enough to give the sense of immersion. So, worth it? yes ( even more if there are some friends to play with), it is simple gameplay with a little bit of strategy behind it... with it's strange, if we are talking about a game where all you do is killing space bugs.

You don't hear a lot about this one, but Microsoft nailed it. Gameplay is awesome, weapons are great. Network play was top notch when it came out and is still a lot of fun

Used to play multiplayer on msn gaming zone? We have a community of old and new players on our discord! check out outwars.info for the link.

GOG hasn't kept the game up to date and the cutscenes don't work. There's audio but no video, and any workarounds I have seen don't seem to fit, at least for Windows 11. The game itself, while having its own issues. runs and plays fairly fine. Outdated, but exactly how I remembered it. Would love to play it better, but the lack of running cutscenes brings it down.

My first contact with this game was in the 1997 when i played the demo that came with the CD Rom of the Game Over magazine, i remember the 2 levels demo and was a lot of fun even with my old pentium 166 Mhz. Im trying to remember a music track that played with the demo, i dont remember the band nor the name of the track, i'll be very grateful if someone throws some light on the subject, i just remember that i liked it a lot.