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Hello, the 90s are calling and they’d like to offer you sequels to games you’ve probably forgotten about.Outcast 2: A New Beginningis the newly announced follow-up to 1999’sOutcast. It’s an open-world third-person shooter that takes place right after the events of the original, where Cutter Slade (the best-named man in the world) has been stuck in time for 20 years after trying to get home to Earth from the alien planet Adelpha.
Outcast 2 announcement trailerWatch on YouTube
Outcast 2 announcement trailer
Outcast came out in 1999, and was actually supposed to get a sequel shortly after, but the devs had financial troubles and couldn’t get the cash to continue. In 2014, folks fromthe studio tried Kickstarting a reboot, but failed to reach their fundraising goal.
A New Beginning’s visuals are very nice indeed. |Image credit:THQ Nordic
“Fans of the original may well love seeing Adelpha modernised,” she wrote. “For a newcomer like me though, while it’s impossible to ignore the foundations that Outcast laid for later games in the open-world genre, at its core, Second Contact is clunky. Infuriatingly imprecise combat and stiff controls constantly jerk you cursing back into reality.”
Here’s hoping that the sequel does a little better on that front. There’s no set release date yet, and the game is just about to go into alpha, so we’ll probably be waiting a bit longer to see more.
