What makes Outcast stand out is its combination of quests that simply require you to track someone (or something) down, and a complete lack of anything to tell you where you might be able to find said people. The more quests you complete, the more the Talan at large will begin to trust you, as you gradually work towards persuading them to turn on their masters, and fight back against the power. One character may ask you to find out where his Twon-Ha shipment's got to (a weird cross between a dinosaur and a tauntaun), another might ask for your help in clearing an "accident" that occurred when building a temple, and has left rubble scattered everywhere, or a worker may ask you to fetch a Shamaz (essentially a priest type profession) to help heal him, as he's been beaten up again for falling behind in his Riss production (a type of vegetable of the land). Rather than dungeon raids or boss fights, however, many of these quests instead simply revolve around finding people, objects, or things, and bringing them together. Oh, and maybe saving Earth if you get chance.įeeling less like an action game at times, and more like a role playing game, Outcast Second Contact is a game that's all about the quests. As such, it's up to you to set out through the land in an attempt to win the trust of the Talan at large, in the hope of eventually leading an uprising, and finally restoring peace to the land. The local Talan boss - a race of crescent moon chinned alien types who populate the land - seem to have decided that you're something of a big shot, and in a case of mistaken identity, they believe you to be the Ulukai - the man who fell from the stars as prophesied, and the one to save them from their life of slavery, following a semi-civil war.
Turns out that after having leapt through the portal, you and your team get separated, and rather than having a happy landing, you instead wind up knocking yourself out, eventually coming to in the house of one of the locals.
With a top secret experiment gone wrong, leading to some interdimensional shenanigans, the world as we know it is slowly being sucked into a void between two dimensions - and it's up to you, as ex-US Navy Seal Cutter Slade, to head into the other dimension, fix whatever's been going wrong, and save both worlds from extinction.īut were it so easy.
The game opens with that traditional 90s staple - a huge, long winded, and far too lengthy cutscene that relays the game's plot. And that's both a good thing, and a bad thing. You don't need to be a graphics expert to see there's a huge difference there - but what lurks beneath the surface is a game that clings firmly to its original 90s design.
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