Outcast - Second Contact

I never heard about Outcast, except some rumors about how it was ground breaking for open world/action adventure genre. Second Contact is retaining massive amounts of jank and charm of how I can imagine a game from 1999. It’s simple, but you can fell that it set a solid ground for what was improved today. It’s a sci-fi setting in an “old-school” way with humanoid aliens that are made to be distinct enought from humans, but not enough to have some sense of familiarity (like biggest city being with the vibe of middle east markets). Adelpha is a charming place, full of its weird quirks and self-awareness that makes the game very silly in a positive way that is not really to be seen in modern games. Music is amazing (which is a massive understatement) and the fact that game is fully voiced is impressive. I keep laughing at NPCs calling me “da gay hoe” what was supposed to be a high praise from them The plot is simple, but it serves the idea of being rather short adventure with multiple side stuff to do. And yeah, side quests are (mostly) very well connected to the story. Through your travels, you can support local communities barely surviving under the tyranny. By doing side quests yo…

What a blast from the past! So there were some 25 years between me playing the original Outcast and playing this remake, so I went into this without any detailed memories that would have allowed for a direct comparison, and that ended up being quite the experience. I started this game up and my first thought was "Wow, it all looks exactly as I remember." Then I was like "...but wait, that can't be" and looked up screenshots from the original game and was like "LOL okay wow". It just goes to show how brilliant the original game was. Even though there was very little detail back then, it looked just as gorgeous to me as the remake looks today. Well, apart from Slade and the Talans, from whose low-voxel countenances my teenage brain extrapolated faces very different from those we get here, especially since Slade was voiced by Bruce Willis' German voice actor, so he just looked like Bruce Willis to me. But I got used to that "change" quickly. In almost all other aspects, I felt like I was once again playing the same game that I obsessively played as a teenager. I loved that they just kept the maps exactly as they were but "yassified". Even the combat felt just as clunky. I did reme…

Towards the end was a buggy mess. Finished the main game whilst my enemies were t posing. good stuff, didn't even get the achievement for finishing the game but.. overall I really enjoyed playing. This game was way ahead of its time when it came out, the original I mean. Second Contact gave new life with better graphics and polished gameplay including controller support and console releases. I definitely recommend this game and the other ones.

Nice remake but like the original it has some bugs. Nice to see this universe in better visuals. If you're a fan of the original, you will like this.

While the game is definitely dated, I found the writing charming, self-aware, and very funny. Good game overall, and from what I've read, a pioneering effort in 3rd person-shooters and adventure games.

Well done remake of the original game of 1999. Typical game plot with 1990s action hero and vibes of those times, now old-fashioned but in a positive way. Relatively open world subdivided in different but always awesome sections, simple, linear and repetitive but also interesting and motivating classic "walking" quest design (find hidden item, kill sb, speak with sb; push button aso). Pure nostalgica for players who witnessed the 1990s and 2000s. I like it.