![]() This is where the re-telling of the plot will stop, because while a rich lore - and Outriders certainly has that - is always great to appreciate in a game, if it’s not married to mechanics that make the whole experience engrossing to play, who cares? (We’re looking at you Too Human). ![]() Moments after awakening from cryo, the player is driven through frontline war trenches lining a designated ‘No Man’s Land” complete with hanging cadavers that have become the order of the day. They’re awakened around thirty years later to find that, thanks to humanity doing what it does best (read: kill each other over dwindling resources) Enoch has been transformed from the garden of Eden into something resembling Dante’s Inferno. The player’s character survives The Anomaly’s first storm and then is shoved into cryo-storage. Leaving aside gun battles, local fauna that look like they could eat a garbage truck and an overall landing mission led by authorities who would rather kill than be inconvenienced (and that’s really a lot to be getting on with), players are introduced to something called The Anomaly think an electrical storm that cuts most poor sods in half and transforms others into super-humans. While the Enoch’s sun-dappled veneer looks promising, things go pear-shaped pretty quickly (and by quickly see: the first twenty-odd minutes of the game). ![]() Outriders sees the last remnants of humanity landing on a planet called Enoch, which for all intents and purposes, looks like a picture postcard from Colorado on steroids greenery stretches into sheer mountains of gargantuan proportions, while waterfalls pour into bubbling brooks shored up by lush fields surrounded by forests.Ĭharacters make nebulous comments about what happened to humankind’s home planet, but the upshot of the situation is that Earth is no more - hence the trek to Enoch. ![]()
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