Posted on: November 17, 2015
groze
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Overhyped by nostalgia
To those of you who haven't played the game at its original release date, think twice before buying it. Outcast is an amazing piece of video game history, a "what could have been" landmark, and it's great for that. For everything else, it falls short, especially since it tries to tackle too many genres at once, not managing to excel at a single one of them. It's a decent enough action-adventure that tried to bite more than it could chew. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely understand why hardcore fans love it, but when you look at it without nostalgia rose-tinted glasses, you realize the game is full of flaws, some of them quite blatant and not that small. It's a pure Belgian-made game that attempts to be a poor man's Planet of the Apes mixed with Stargate and the more post-colonial racist Tintin comics you can imagine. Appalling writing, horrible voice acting, clunky gameplay mechanics, all make this game a lot worse than what fans say it is. The truth is, there are way better action-adventure titles out there. Pick any one of the Legend of Kain series, to see how to make an action-adventure right; pick Beyond Good & Evil, arguably the last great pure action-adventure ever made. Outcast may have been one of the first true open-world games, but don't let that fool you: whatever it did good, games released after it perfected the formula. If you want an open world game, you'd be better off just buying Assassin's Creed, Saints Row 2, Saints Row 4 or the great Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, all of which do the open-world thing better than Outcast, all available on GOG. Now, I can't bring myself to give the game a negative rating, as much as I personally dislike it, because I do value its place in the history of video games. It does feature an amazing NPC AI (for its time), the voxel engine looks impressive (for its time) and the open-world is superbly done (for its time). If you didn't play it when it came out, though, you're better off picking a different, better game.
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