But the design is straight out of two generations ago. To its credit, the Unreal Engine 4 powered visuals are frequently pleasant, and performance on my Xbox Series S is great. This is clearly a lower-budget, b-tier game, and it’s also burdened with now launching across two generations of hardware. It’s a little bit Gears of War, a little Destiny, a little Borderlands…or for an even faster reductive comparison, it’s like Mass Effect Andromeda but slowed down a bit and more clunky. Outriders doesn’t recall either of those, instead borrowing its mechanics from a long list of popular games, just like its story moments are borrowed from every science fiction thing ever made. Painkiller mashed classic high speed first-person gameplay into a goofy story about angels, demons, and revenge, and Bulletstorm allowed games to be colorful again…before eventually being poisoned with Duke Nukem. I’m not just listing played-out sci-fi clichés, I’m listing things that happen in the first hour of Outriders, the long-in-development third person loot shooter from Painkiller and Bulletstorm studio People Can Fly.
A sleep in a cryogenic chamber than then time-skips the narrative forward into a whole new situation. Trucks that magically break down right when the plot needs them to, then magically work right when the plot needs them to.
A future war between two competing factions with trenches and high-contrast Terminator-style lighting and smoke. A benevolent female character introduced in voiceover who might be good or evil. Freak storms that sometimes kill things and other times imbue them with powers, alongside visions of the future. Evil black goop that turns living beings into monsters. A mysterious alien planet with secrets that probes didn’t pick up. Xbox Series S screenshot taken by the author.Ĭolonists who are the last survivors from a ravaged Earth.
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