The Outer Worlds

The Outer Worlds is a 2019 action role-playing developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Private Division.

Plot
The Outer Worlds takes place in an alternative timeline where William McKinley, the 25th president of the United States, was never assassinated. Because of this, corporations never faced restrictions from Theodore Roosevelt because he never became president, which allowed them to expand greatly and colonize planets outside of the solar system.

The player character boards a ship whose destination is somewhere near the edge of the galaxy, where they go into cryosleep. The ship goes off course and becomes lost in transit. The player reawakens years later, where they want to find out about the corporations’ true motives following the incident. The player then sets out to explore colonies across the galaxy, meeting multiple factions along the way who are all fighting for more power.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) A very well written, dark storyline about how drunk with power the corporations have become and the effects of their dominance.
 * 2) *There are also many different sub-plots players can follow.
 * 3) Despite the dark tone, there are plenty of humorous moments, many of which poke fun at big corrupt corporations.
 * 4) Combat is pretty fun, and there are many different weapons and armor to use, and they can be modified.
 * 5) *A bullet time ability is also available, and it can be upgraded.
 * 6) Plenty of different quests to complete, which will result in at least 40 hours of gameplay.
 * 7) Many likable and memorable characters, especially the companions.
 * 8) *Unlike many other games with companions, the companions will join in on conversations rather than remain silent, and if the player has two companions with them they can have conversations with each other.
 * 9) In addition to the player leveling up, companions can also level up and improve their skills.
 * 10) *Companions also have their own unique ability when in combat.
 * 11) Great voice acting, which makes the characters more distinguishable.
 * 12) Many different character stats, skills, personality traits, and perks, which allows for many different play-styles.
 * 13) *Players can add "flaws" to their character in exchange for perk points and other advantages.
 * 14) Visually stunning, with many unique looking locations and planets.
 * 15) A wide variety of enemies, which also helps in making the location and planets feel different from each other.
 * 16) A great soundtrack that helps greatly in setting the mood of the locations.
 * 17) The sound effects are great.
 * 18) Weapon stats are very detailed, they show almost every bit of info on the weapon.
 * 19) Players have the ability to sort quests by which planet they take place on, so players don't have to keep on traveling to different planets each quest.
 * 20) Item degradation is present, but the feature is handled well, so it doesn't become an annoyance like other games with said system.
 * 21) There is a highly challenging mode similar to "Hardcore Mode" from Fallout: New Vegas called "Supernova".
 * 22) Unlike most other open world games, there are very few bugs and glitches.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) While uncommon, there are a few frame-rate drops.
 * 2) Only one quest can be active at a time, which may force players to have to keep on switching between which quest is the active one if they are trying to complete more than one quest at a time.
 * 3) The Switch port suffers from many issues and downgrades, such as blurry graphics and lower framerate.

Reception
The Outer Worlds was met with mostly positive reviews from critics and gamers alike. On Metacritic, the PC version has a critic score of 82/100, an 86/100 on the PS4, and an 85/100 on the Xbox One. The users scores were a 7.6/10 for the PC version, and an 8.3/10 on the PS4 and Xbox One versions.

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