RPG elements baked into the experience include leveling up and unlocking certain perks that enhance your playthrough, like moving faster, making more damage when shooting or being better at certain dialogue choices with or without companions by your side.Ĭompanions are also an important part of the experience as they let you go on their personal sidequests. The way the game approaches this sad state of the galaxy is with wit and dark humor, and if sarcasm is your cup of tea, you are certain to have a good chuckle every few moments with the dialogues in The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition.
That is a shining aspect of the game that you get to experience time and time again, and it is gratifying to make a choice every single time.Īs soon as you start playing, you soon find that all the settlements you find are actually run by corporations, which you eventually learn are the real antagonists, as corporate greed and indifference run the whole show. You can also just make a situation worse if you choose to do so. The quests are divided in several ways, from Companion, Faction, Task, Main and even Botched quests, all fulfilling an important role in your quest to discover the many mysteries the universe of The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition has to offer.ĭialogue choices can be defined in your run, as it can be as easy as just taking the easy route and entering guns blazing to any situation, or you can try to choose and help the many different characters you will meet.
Once you are done with introductions, you are dumped on the first planet, Terra 2, which serves as a tutorial area to introduce you to the game’s many quests and decisions you will have to make.Ī brilliant aspect of The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition is its many branching paths you could take, all being morally ambiguous. It’s a simple enough goal to keep the plot moving fairly quickly and with not much exposition. He requests that you aid him in finding certain chemicals that are hard to find and are needed to wake up the rest of the colonists to help its ailing galaxy. It is here where most of your playthrough will be defined, as you could choose to be an outlaw with no persuasion skills or a diplomat with a silver tongue, effectively ending any kind of conflict before it begins.īy a stroke of luck, you are a colonist frozen on a stranded ship rescued by Phineas Welles, a rebel scientist whose goal is clear and appears to be well-intentioned. The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition starts with the somewhat robust character creation, which depending on each playstyle, could take you quite a while to create or just a few seconds with the game’s preconceived options. Obsidian has always excelled at offering creative sandboxes for players to get lost in, paired with impressive environmental storytelling. Among their previous work included is Fallout New Vegas, released in 2011, and their pedigree as a developer shines in The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition as a First Person Shooter with strong argument and art style. The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition, developed by classic RPG creator Obsidian Entertainment and published by Private Division, aims to create the ultimate way to experience this well received shooter RPG in a neatly arranged package with all the bells and whistles you would expect from a current-gen upgrade.Īlthough this bundle certainly has a few issues, for this game to exist is a constant reminder of Obsidian’s expertise as a narrative powerhouse. Most video games do not get the chance to give a great first impression twice, especially after four years and plenty of other releases in the meantime. New adventures and greedy corporations await you in The Outer Worlds: Spacer’s Choice Edition.
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