Review for The Outer Worlds. Game for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X, the video game was released on 25/10/2019 The version for Nintendo Switch came out on 05/06/2020
All the media have examined the possibility that, by changing a single moment in the course of human history, the chain of events that follows can change to the point of giving rise to a completely different evolution of civilization. The Steampunk culture, for example, bases one of its foundations on the possible development of steam as a form of motive energy as opposed to gasoline, giving life to an alternative reality starting from the nineteenth century. And if by chance a single event in 1901 - such as the non-assassination of the president in office with the consequent exponential expansion of mega corporations - had given rise to a technological development such as to allow man to travel into space, with the consequent expansion and terraforming of planets and galaxies?
The Outer Worlds bases its plot and development on precisely this point and with great skill it tells an interesting story with implications seasoned with black humor, which thanks to Obsidian and Private Division today arrives on Nintendo Switch after landing in October 2019 on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
Man has crossed the border of his planet and is about to conquer the stars. Everyone has a chance to change their life and even their world and they can do it for free. It is enough just to decide to rely on a megacorporation and after a short cryogenic hypersleep and a few have of service to repay the costs of the trip every man can be free to rebuild a life on a new and beautiful planet.
Unfortunately all of this smacks of a rip off a mile away, as nobody tells you how long you will have to work or what you will have to do. Add to this that your spaceship will fail near one of the colonized planets, the package is complete. Moreover, for the company you are only a cost, and waking up does not bring an immediate economic advantage, so for now it is better that you and your companions stay there, waiting for future developments.
But thanks to a stroke of luck, after "only" seventy years, a mad and brilliant scientist wanted by all the authorities decides to take charge of the crew in cryogenic sleep and free them. Unfortunately, not everything goes smoothly and among all the sleeping settlers only you will enjoy the possibility of being woken, tossed, drugged, sedated, transported, loaded with drugs to ensure that you do not melt, and finally saved from your fate. In no time at all you will find yourself in the pay of the insane Phineas who will use you to find answers and carry out tasks in the hope of freeing your crew and finding a place in the cosmos.
After drawing your character thanks to an editor - decent, if not too thorough - you will find yourself landed on one of the planets of the Alcione system looking for a way to survive and to get out of this tangled mess. Between side effects and misadventures bordering on the surreal, the adventure of The Outer Worlds unfolds, which will not fail to offer intelligent ideas, complicated moral choices and many shootings, all seasoned with a quantity of sarcasm and black humor to say the least. embarrassing. At times you almost feel the influence of a sweetened Rick & Morty vein, albeit with much less emphasis and irreverence.
The key feature of the adventure of The Outer Worlds lies in the choices that we will be asked to make in the course of the plot through the dialogues, present in a really full-bodied size. And if you plan to deploy them by answering randomly well, know that every answer leads to consequences. Your reputation towards the various warring groups and factions, given by your response choices, will determine the hostile, neutral or friendly behavior of the opponents and NPCs you encounter along the way. You will also be able to control your choices thanks to the talents you will acquire with the skill points, affecting your ability to lie, plagiarize, ensnare, and condition the behavior of those in front of you.
Choosing carefully how to use these talents becomes imperative. In The Outer Worlds the tree of talents and skills plays a central role: you can increase technological skills, able to improve your equipment, or medical ones that, for example, will make you progress in that field. Dialectics and leadership skills are just some of the characteristics that will affect your abilities without of course neglecting offensive capabilities.
Yes, because The Outer Worlds is also a good FPS that will put your skills to the test: to help you there will be a side effect of the abrupt awakening from hypersleep, which will allow you to slow down time allowing you to heal, reload or take better aim. . The contact or long-distance weapons compartment is also really remarkable and also allows them to be improved, repaired, dismantled and strengthened.
The Outer Worlds is all this and more: breathtaking scenarios, interesting intrigues, unexpected twists and alien technology are just some of the elements that will accompany you throughout the adventure but that, we are sure, you will have already had the opportunity to try in the Playstation 4, Xbox One, and PC versions you will already be playing for some time. So let's find out if it is worthwhile to face an adventure - however not too long-lived - on Nintendo Switch.
The porting of The Outer Worlds had to wait longer than expected as the result of a team with a reduced budget and moreover carried out in a period of limits and constraints given by COVID-19. The very first release in fact suffered from conspicuous compromises and frightening drops in frame rate such as to make the title almost unplayable on the Nintendo laptop. Fortunately, the development teams ran for cover with a patch on Day One which, while not being able to greatly improve the graphics limits, at least fixed the obvious frame rate problems.
The substantial feature that differentiates the version of The Outer Worlds for Nintendo Switch from that for the other platforms lies in the decrease in graphic detail and in a constant blur effect. While the first is an acceptable compromise, the second is sometimes annoying: while maintaining 1080p in the TV version and 720p on the move, the "weakened" graphics give the details and spectacle of the vast game areas a dull halo that does not enhances the potential of the title. Fortunately, the Day-One patch allowed us to enjoy a fairly stable 30 fps frame rate in combat.
Also thanks to this the gaming experience is therefore pleasant and interesting by inserting an important piece in the Nintendo Switch catalog. We personally found The Outer Worlds enjoyable and entertaining as much in the exploratory and narrative sessions - seasoned with a fine and black humor just enough to make it enjoyable - as in the combat phases, which we can define as pleasant and satisfying.
The views of the vast game areas will not give the same emotions as the PC counterpart but you can't really complain, especially when you consider that it was unthinkable just a couple of years ago to enjoy a title like The Outer Worlds in full mobility.
The Outer Worlds lands, thanks to Obsidian and Private Division, on Nintendo Switch, after having landed on PC, Playstation 4 and Xbox One in 2019. Today you can enjoy a fantastic FPS with strong RPG elements, an exciting and well-built plot on the go. although not too long-lived, and with dialogues seasoned with irreverent black and irreverent humor. The choices you are called to make will affect your destiny, and your skills will be the turning point in one direction or another. The porting had to accept strong compromises that have greatly reduced its potential without undermining the final quality in any case. A must have in your stock.
► The Outer Worlds is a Shooter-RPG type game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Obsidian Entertainment Private Division for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Xbox Series X, the video game was released on 25/10/2019 The version for Nintendo Switch came out on 05/06/2020
