Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is only a few weeks away and I’m virtually buzzing with anticipation. Why? Because it’s a non secular successor to Wing Commander Privateer. Confirmed for an August 13th launch at this time, it has huge dumb greasy explosions, over-the-top dogfights and completely no take care of realism, all wrapped round a space-trucker aesthetic that I can get behind. Grungy music apart, a reasonably main departure from Double Damage’s earlier, two dimensional (and capital ship-scale) predecessor Rebel Galaxy. Below, a brand new trailer that includes a really sassy alien.
If you’re not grey-around-the-edges like me and don’t keep in mind Wing Commander Privateer, think about a Millennium Falcon simulator. Small-but-agile bounty searching ships and house freighters to fly in a galaxy filled with a lot greater (however slower) fish and earnings to take advantage of. Unlike the earlier game, you gained’t be flying something huge or bristling with turrets, however that’s as a result of the main focus of it’s extra private. Some of the little particulars like your protagonist’s arms fiddling round with the controls as you click on by means of menus are nice, as is elevating a center finger to exploding foes.
And Privateer IS the important thing inspiration – confirmed straight, however if you happen to’re nonetheless not satisfied, Outlaw secretly made its debut on this intelligent little April Fools video.
I additionally fairly like the primary character, mainly a woman Han Solo – grizzled, in her forties and fuelled by low cost espresso and nerves. Very relatable. I might ramble for ages about why this game appears to be like so good, however I believe it speaks for itself. Here’s three hours of lead developer Travis Baldree (beforehand of Fate and Torchlight) simply tooling round house, moving into fights and taking part in minigames in house bars. It additionally helps that he has a voice made for radio. Anything that he or that stream doesn’t reply must be cleared up by the official FAQ or the remainder of the Rebel Galaxy Outlaw site.
Rebel Galaxy Outlaw launches on the Epic Games Store this August 13th for £27/€30/$30, with a Steam launch (and presumably different shops) the identical time subsequent yr.
