Summary
- Rock, Paper, Shotgun has published an exclusive 11-minute video footage of The Outer Worlds 2, which will be released later this year.
- The player character is shown entering a mining planet, seeming to be in the middle of a quest.
- The theme is art deco, and there are many references to other RPGs, such as Prey.
- The player character is accompanied by a companion, Aza, who is also a cultist, referencing the presumably hostile cultists on the planet.
- The player character stabs one, alerting others, and circumventing the need to use grenades by shooting them in mid-air.
- They then find a science lady, Exemplar Foxworth, who is bleeding out.
- She provides information about ‘visibility impaired’ cultists, and the player acquires a mask that can see through them.
- They encounter and kill some, and Aza makes a couple of unenthusiastic comments.
- The player then kills a visibly wounded NPC to avoid the notoriously uninteresting branching quest design.
- The impression is that the game looks visually appealing but the dialogue and story are less impressive.
By Nic Reuben
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