Most destinations are large but self-contained areas populated by an assortment of aggressive wildlife, ne’er-do-wells, and quest-givers. A dubiously procured (but brilliantly named) spaceship, The Unreliable, acts as a hub of sorts, transporting you around a six-planet system to accumulate an impressively long list of missions and side-quests. It’s a big game, but one we’d hesitate to term open world. Its satirical approach and political stance are far more in-tune with each other than in another recent Switch port, the otherwise wonderful Void Bastards. You’ll find it in everything from the architecture to the cheeky in-game advertisements that promise a better life for the inhabitants of the Halcyon system. To the game’s credit, it uses this hoary conceit to reflect the story’s themes of corporate servitude and rebellion with more grit and humour than is usual.
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The influence of the Fallout series and Bioshock casts a long shadow, of course, most obviously in the game’s retro-futuristic aesthetic.
If you’ve played New Vegas or KOTOR2, the first hour of The Outer Worlds feels like slipping on a comfortable pair of old space boots. The Outer Worlds presents a wild and imaginative new universe in which to tell stories, but the format and structure are true to the studio’s heritage. In delivering what people want, Obsidian has created a game that feels immediately familiar. Every mission, character, and weapon is here, compressed and squeezed into a 13.7GB file. The Outer Worlds comes to Nintendo Switch content complete, with future story expansions also confirmed.
The Outer Worlds gives Virtuos a chance to prove the point.
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Noire and Bioshock – say their processes mean that virtually any game from the PS4 and Xbox One generation can be ported to Switch. Virtuos – the studio behind the solid ports of L.A. Hello, Ark: Survival Evolved and Mortal Kombat 11. Others, like Doom and The Witcher 3, are impressive despite their flaws. Some of these, like Alien: Isolation and the Assassin’s Creed: The Rebel Collection, are excellent. Hence, a slew of ports from the last two Xbox and PlayStation generations. Obsidian Entertainment heard that call, and that’s what the studio delivered – to considerable acclaim – with The Outer Worlds.Īnother thing people want is for every game to be on the Nintendo Switch. They wanted a game like Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic or Fallout New Vegas. Sometimes.įollowing the direction taken by the Fallout franchise, fans of the series were vocal in their desire for a more focussed, single-player experience. The Outer Worlds touches down on Nintendo Switch, and while the game is easy to recommend, the Switch port really isn’t.
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