Who wants gross sales when individuals maintain freely giving neat stuff at no cost? Coincidentally reviewed by Alyse Stanley here precisely one 12 months in the past, Outcast: Second Contact is an exceptionally trustworthy remake of Appeal’s Stargate-inspired open world action-adventure Outcast, first launched in 1999. Some argue that the remake is genuine to a fault, however I reckon that no matter flaws that will suggest, that is nonetheless the easiest way to expertise an essential piece of games historical past. Grab the game, DRM free and yours to keep here on Humble (open for the following 48 hours), and take a look at the trailer under.
If you’ve by no means heard of Outcast earlier than, simply think about Stargate SG-1, starring a barely off-model Jack O’Neill, improbably named “Cutter Slade”. He’s stranded on a bizarre alien planet, being known as a prophesied hero by an area clan of resistance fighters, and is shortly pressed into service in preventing in opposition to an oppressive totalitarian regime. He actually has no time for any of this alien mystical mumbo jumbo, but when there’s clear-cut unhealthy guys to shoot for making an attempt to shake down the locals, he’s okay with that. He doesn’t perceive science, or space-magic, however he’s fairly good on weapons.
Mechanically, think about Far Cry mashed along with Morrowind and also you’re midway there. There’s operating, leaping, a number of capturing and hoarding sources to assemble to degree up your weaponry. It accommodates a variety of what you’d anticipate from a modern-day open world game – spectacular contemplating it’s nigh twenty years outdated. So trailblazing was the unique that it even used CPU-crushing voxel graphics to render its world. Fortunately the remake is all polygonal and friendlier on the {hardware}, however retains a lot of the look of the unique. I’m nonetheless not bought on Slade’s new face, although.
Outcast: Second Contact is DRM free and yours to maintain as long as you grab it on Humble earlier than 10am Pacific Time, November 24th. That’s 6pm GMT, this Saturday.
