![]() ![]() I grab a weapon, begin to explore the galaxy in the game’s first-person view, fight enemies when necessary, and spend a lot of time talking to people.Įnvironments like this make up the dystopia of Halcyon. That’s the attitude I have when I jump into The Outer Worlds. I don’t remember much about individual areas or weapons from Obsidian titles I think about characters. The best moments from the studio’s games come from making imperfect choices in complicated worlds. ![]() Obsidian Entertainment is behind some of the best role-playing games ever, including Fallout: New Vegas, Alpha Protocol, and Knights of the Old Republic 2. I’ve just got to murder some robots and raiders, meet the locals down on some of the nearby planets, and try to figure out whether I’m down with Welles’ vision of eating the rich.Īnd I gotta admit, I’m a little hungry. So I’m emerging into a space-capitalist nightmare, and Welles is asking me for help. If you want curated lists of our favorite media, check out What to Play and What to Watch. When we award the Polygon Recommends badge, it’s because we believe the recipient is uniquely thought-provoking, entertaining, inventive, or fun - and worth fitting into your schedule. 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.Polygon Recommends is our way of endorsing our favorite games, movies, TV shows, comics, tabletop books, and entertainment experiences. 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.
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