Everything you loved about the original Homeworld games from the aesthetic to the music (It's glorious) and gameplay, but this time set before the events of Homeworld on the desert planet of Kharak. Love the addition of random chatter. Hopefully that will be thing in Homeworld 3 as well. Issues with the game include not being able to rebind your keys and underwhelming AI.
This is the closest you're going to get to a Syndicate/Syndicate Wars sequel. You control 4 agents with different classes. However, based on your play style, you will find yourself not utilizing one or two throughout your playthrough. I personally found myself exclusively using the Hacker & Infiltrator during my purely stealth run. A stealth playthrough will unfortunately highlight some of the cracks in the game. Unclear enemy line of sight, AI can be ridiculously stupid & buggy at times such as poor pathfinding, guards escorting my agents into a secure part of a compound instead of out of it or agents continuously stopping for no apparent reason. Performance seems to be a bit of an issue as well, the game will occasionally stutter and I've faced some FPS drops on a beast of a machine. What little story is there is fleshed out through data logs about the various factions and briefings. Now that I got the negatives out of the way, let me highlight what the game gets right which fortunately enough is most of it. Firstly, it is gorgeous to look at. The blinding neon lights against perpetual rain along with the synth-heavy soundtrack nail the atmosphere and setting. As for gameplay, the real time tactical approach definitely keeps you on your toes, as you'll be scurrying from one agent to another, evaluating their situation and issuing commands accordingly. The city is split into 5 sectors. There are multiple missions per sector which will help you earn credits, acquire equipment or augmuntation blueprints to research, and to undermine a specific faction's control and security over an area. These missions can be approached in multiple ways from hacking your way through a facility and turning the enemies defenses against them, to tactically dispatching guards in your way or by being a complete ghost. Nothing beats doing some recon on heavily fortified, setting a plan to infilitrate it and then executing said plan without a hitch in one single go.
This was my most anticipated game of 2017 as it's a remake of my favorite game of all time. My opinion of the game remains the same: "Outcast, my all time favorite game. The game which made me forget that my body requires sustenance and frequent visits to the bathroom to function." Everything about it from the story, setting, music, dialogue, lore, voice acting and the graphics (Yes, the graphics!) are just perfect. This is the PC's Zelda. Being able to run it properly on a modern system/OS made me one happy fellow." However, the remake suffers from some issues such as performance, lack of video options, the game recognizing my HOTAS setup as a joypad, lazy still images for an intro (the original intro is far superior) and some occasssional in game bugs. Do these issues deter from the overall experience? Absolutely not! This is still an incredibly unique experience and a fully realized world. Here's hoping we finally get that sequel we were anticpating in the early 2000's.
Syndicate invited Crusader: No Remorse/No Regret & Desert Strike over for a game of Battletech, but ended up having a threesome instead while listening to 80's synthwave. Almost Three decades later, Brigador was born. I honestly can't find a single thing to complain about in this criminally overlooked game. It's grainy visuals, tone, lore, completely destructive enviornments, underlying level of strategy and music (the music!) should set an example for other developers.
Syndicate invited Crusader: No Remorse/No Regret & Desert Strike over for a game of Battletech, but ended up having a threesome instead while listening to 80's synthwave. Almost Three decades later, Brigador was born. I honestly can't find a single thing to complain about in this criminally overlooked game. It's grainy visuals, tone, lore, completely destructive enviornments, underlying level of strategy and music (the music!) should set an example for other developers.
Outcast, my all time favorite game. The game which made me forget that my body requires sustenance and frequent visits to the bathroom to function. I love this game so much that I own two copies of it (big box & jewel case). Everything about it from the story, setting, music, dialogue, lore, voice acting and the graphics (Yes, the graphics!) are just perfect. This is the PC's Zelda. Being able to run it properly on a modern system/OS made me one happy fellow.
