It's absolutely beautiful with a gorgeous open-world and lots of varied quests within the different villages.
Includes your usual open-world busy-work too, but it's all just lots of fun to me.
Jet-pack traversal is fun. Combat is decent too.

I was a huge fan of the original Outcast, got all the (un)official remakes and couldn't be happier when this finally released. Only to be disappointed by the most generic, boring and unengaging game i've played in a very long time. The jetpack was fun, but that's the only redeeming quality about this game.
The graphics are lacking, the gameplay is repetitive, the storyline is about as basic as can be, but the worst part is...it has absolutely nothing, and I do mean nothing to do with the original outcast. It's just a lame attempt to an "it's not an Avatar game with the exact same story *wink wink*" with a bunch of woke stuff sprinked in that completely contradics everything that happened in the first game.

*Slight spoilers ahead*

There are no puzzles, no quest or choices or anything else that has any effect at all on the storyline or the gameplay in any way, no engaging conversations or even challenging enemies. The Talans are just NPC pillars that have no lives, do nothing but stand still and waiting for you to talk to them, they dont even care or react if you empy thousands of rounds of ammunition right next to their face. Speaking of munition, one of the best parts of the orignal game was upgrading your diverse weapons by doing hard quest and finding artifacts to complete challenging trials. Now it's just 2 generic guns which you upgrade in a menu whenever you want like the immortal and unstuppable supersoldier from the heavens you're supposed to be.
Finally there's the storyline. I could spell out every single "plottwist" in crayons after playing for about 5minutes, the amount of times I was like: "which 5 year old wrote this script" was unbelievable. Even something as simple as, I don't know, taking away a comlink,supercomputer and infinite jetpack/shield when putting someone in prison failed to cross their minds.

The only parts relevant to the original game are some wannabe funny remarks and some easter eggs.
It's like they took the original game, removed everything remotely fun and innovative about it and puked out something so generic even COD or FIFA would be ashamed of it.
If you liked Outcast, please don't bother with this.

Nice looking game, and that's the best I can say about it. Everything else is extremely mediocre.

The movement is fun, but it takes all game to get it upgraded so you barely spend any time with full movement. And probably 50% of the 'to-do list" in this game is parkour challenges, though you can do almost all of them with just the basic jump because there is so little risk of failure.

The 2 guns have a fun mod system that lets you really change their play style. But the combat is really boring. The AI doesn't do much interesting, and the boss fights seemed fairly low effort. I almost never used any of the special abilities you have at your disposal because the combat was just too simple and I never needed it.

It's basically Anthem's combat/movement in the Avatar universe, padded with an Ubisoft-style open world.

Lots of performance issues. Crashed probably 10 times. Lots of framerate drops when moving quickly across land or just in towns, but very inconsistently. Characters T-posing. Prompts staying on screen until restart. Getting locked in a menu and having to alt+f4, like 4 times.

Even at half off I feel a little cheated from this purchase. I did at least get 25 hours of entertainment. Just didn't leave me feeling satisfied.

Cut seen after super long cut scene, after another cut scene to get to a cut scene ..... can i have a go now or is this a badly scripted, badly acted, boring film.

Who liked the version from 1999 will love this one.

there problems when you start you can fix them

its like avatar

The game is a mixed bag. The presentation and the gameplay is good for the most part, but I didn't care much for the writing and the story in general. I don't want to dwell on this too much, but you can tell that the game was developed by a new team.
Back to the gameplay, there's some amount of jank and bugs, but I didn't experience anything game-breaking. It's a AA game, so adjust you expectations accordingly.
Overall I still recommend the game, but while I completed the original many times, I don't feel any desire the replay this one any time soon.

I can't recommend this game
Outcast was a game from my childhood and more than that was a masterpiece (unfortunatly came out too close to half life to be as popular as it shald have)

I didn't expect this to be a masterpiece, not even a very good game, but this is worst. Not THE worst, but worsst than I exected.

Still a solid 5/10 I think :
- Looks pretty good
- music ... but it's not half of the first (that was played by a fgreacking orchestra)
- writing is not marvelous but there a ton of voice acting which is good
- The jet pack vbased movement is pretty good and makes for good travels
- good weapon idea

But
- Buggy as hell (I even soft locked the game and can't finish it)
- Gameplay loop is horendous, tedious, and made worse with timer based missions (the main reason it's a red thumb)
- world feels non organic (come on ! 30 years earlier Outcast gave us an Adelpha we could believe in)

Been playing this since lauch actualy preordered just cause it looked like something different. I have not played any of the other games I know there is one maybe more gonna give the remake a go after I complete this but ya this game rocks and is itching that "I need something different" itch. Its like mass effect but not so stiff more light hearted. I love it give it a try i think most will too.

I would love to have the officers' quarters on top of the mountains and cliffs, maybe keep some stash of loot there so I can hang out in dreamland and watch the world pass by, with birds flying. I am thrilled to hear the cry of my native Rainbirds - that sets my soul free. However, the repetition of certain things can be a little tiring. As for me, I am a loot junkie who likes to fill my pockets with everything movable, but nothing is loose. So much abandoned fun in a beautiful environment brings a whole new approach to control.