![]() ![]() Sure, no matter who you accuse, the final confrontation is effectively the same, but it feels great to be given the chance to make a call and then find out if you’re right or wrong about it, which is a lot more than Peril on Gorgon did. It feels great to make a call and then find out if you’re right or wrong about it.As far as I can tell there isn’t a significant effect on the story based on your roleplaying dialogue choices, but there are a couple of big decisions to make once you close in on a suspect: for one, you get to actually guess at who killed the actor, which is a refreshing breath of fresh air when so many detective games are on rails. Depending on how thorough you are, that can be over 10 hours – which is not bad at all for an expansion to a 25-hour RPG. It’s a bona fide murder mystery, and there’s a lot of dialogue here since so much of the sleuthing is climbing every branch of their conversation trees, and between that and reading emails on terminals, going through every detail for evidence it can take a while. There are some outbreaks of (not overly taxing) puzzling in the game, and you often find in missions that there are ways in which you can stack the odds in your favour, for example by taking out one particular type of enemy, as long as you're prepared to sleuth around a bit.The crime boss, the jilted lover, the weird self-help guru, the arrogant co-star, and more are on the list of people of interest, and most of them are in fact interesting people to talk to. Although you always have to take a tactical approach, swapping companions if needs be. As you level-up and buff your party members with perks, you develop the satisfying ability to take on large groups of dangerous enemies. The Outer Worlds' shooting engine is immaculate too: precise and with plenty of feel. One example is a shrink ray, which temporarily renders enemies tiny. Weapons deteriorate with use, so you must repair them and improve them with mods, and you can carry a generous arsenal of up to four in total.īut the coolest weapons come with their own discovery missions: called science weapons, and utterly in keeping with the Dan Dare vibe, these mess around amusingly with the laws of physics. There are two types of ammo: light and heavy. Hawthorne is squashed by your pod, though, so your first task is to reach his spaceship and get it going – which kicks off a hilarious narrative romp that, among other aspects, takes the mickey out of corporate excess. Welles liberates one hibernation cell, containing you (so you can choose your character's sex, appearance and a skill-buffing attribute), rouses you on his secret space-base, then ejects you in a pod to Terra 2, the nearest planet, where an adventurer called Captain Hawthorne awaits to help you out. Top PS4 games: Best PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro games every gamer must own.Top Xbox One games: Best Xbox One S and X games every gamer must own.Top Nintendo Switch games: Best Switch games every gamer should own. ![]() It opens with an outlaw mad professor type, Phineas Welles, gaining access to The Hope, a spaceship stranded and abandoned – following a bureaucratic mix-up – in the Halcyon system, containing hundreds of thousands of settlers from Earth who are still in suspended animation. It contains the complex systems you expect to find in an action-RPG – including a skills tree, armour and weaponry modding, a perks system and a sprawling inventory of consumables and loot to scavenge – but, like its gameplay, those systems have been pared to their very essence, so it never feels overly complex. Even its loading screens manage to consistently entertain you, and its gameplay is taut and focused – like that of Fallout with the extraneous fat removed. When you play The Outer Worlds, however, it feels anything but derivative or old-fashioned. And it pays little heed to modern gaming trends – not only does it eschew any form of multiplayer, but its extensive game-world isn't an open one instead, it is divided into planets in which most of the inhabitants reside in walled towns and cities. On paper, The Outer Worlds might sound derivative: as a single-player, first-person shooter-based role-playing game (RPG), it's undeniably reminiscent of Fallout (with perhaps a dash of Borderlands thanks to some bonkers weaponry). Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Nintendo Switch.Pocket-Lint Recommendations: Xbox Console.Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Google Nest.Pocket-Lint Recommendation: Amazon Echo Devices. ![]()
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