From Obsidian Entertainment, famed developers behind such hits as Fallout: New Vegas, comes The Outer Worlds, an action role-playing video game featuring a first-person perspective. In the early stages of the game, the player can create their own character and unlock a ship, which acts as the game's central hub space. The Outer Worlds is an excellent action-adventure role-playing game, one of the best ps4 games of this kind, appreciated by gamers and critics alike.
In The Outer Worlds, you awake from hibernation on a colonist ship that was lost in transit to Halcyon, the furthest colony from Earth located at the edge of the galaxy, only to find yourself in the midst of a deep conspiracy threatening to destroy it. As you explore the furthest reaches of space and encounter various factions, all vying for power, the character you decide to become will determine how this player-driven story unfolds. The action is non-linear and the multitude of choice make from The Outer Worlds one of the most replayable ps4 games.
In games like Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim, and The Outer Worlds, extended conversations and dialogue trees mean you spend a lot of time staring other characters in the face as they stand in place and talk to you. The two share a lot in common: The Outer Worlds is a story-driven action role-playing game, complete with branching paths, companions, perks, the lot - and that's before mentioning the fact that developer Obsidian Entertainment previously made Fallout: New Vegas. RPG fans were expecting new ps4 games and their waiting ended now with The Outer Worlds.
Here's the thing, though; you can avoid The Outer Worlds' combat encounters almost entirely if it's not your cup of tea, because the choices about the kind of spacefarer you want to be affects the player experience from top to bottom, as emphasised from the moment you boot up the game and start creating your character. Players traverse the many locations of The Outer Worlds via their spaceship, and as the game progresses the interior of said ship will begin to fill out with decorations and memorabilia from the captain and crew's various adventures.
The Outer Worlds PS4 isn't the 'spiritual successor' to Fallout that pundits have made it out to be. It plays a heckuva lot like the Fallout games. Weapons, be they melee or of the projectile variety, feel strong and solid to use, and in lieu of Fallout's V.A.T.S. system The Outer Worlds employs a time dilation mechanic which allows the player to slow down time and, once properly upgraded, easily aim at specific limbs in order to ensure crippling or blindness. In past Fallout games, players could choose up to two extra bonus traits which applied both negative and positive modifiers to their character's statistics.
I went into this game thinking that it would essentially be Fallout In Space, and to a degree, it kind of is. The mechanics and feel are reminiscent of Fallout: New Vegas (conveniently, which was also made by genre kings Obsidian ) and in the first few hours, I actually forgot a couple of times that I wasn't actually playing Fallout. If you are looking to buy cheap ps4 games in the action-RPG category, you should give a try to The Outer Worlds, among the best games out there.
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