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Outcast: A New Beginning

Reviews for Outcast: A New Beginning are decidedly mixed. While the game has interesting exploration with the jetpack, a unique setting, and it might appeal to fans of the original, the gameplay is outdated, the quests are uninspired, and the writing is weak. Technical issues also tarnish the experience. Overall, the game doesn’t meet the expectations of modern open-world titles.

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Explore the breathtaking alien world of Adelpha, support the local Talans in their struggles and fight your way through fast-paced battles against invading robot forces in this 3rd-person, open world, action adventure sequel to the 1999 cult classic.

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IGN

March 14, 2024

7/10

Outcast: A New Beginning is an effective restart for this all-but-forgotten series. It’s certainly rough around the edges, but outside of Just Cause you probably won’t have more fun with movement in an open-world game than you will here.

Mick Fraser (God is a Geek)

March 14, 2024

7/10

There’s fun to be had in the shooting and gliding, but Outcast: A New Beginning is simply stretched a little too thin.

Katharine Castle (Rock, Paper, Shotgun)

March 14, 2024

Not Recommended

A poor (and bored) man’s Avatar, Outcast: A New Beginning is a tedious open world shooter that simply doesn’t have anything new to say.

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Read the Reviews (33 total)

Outlet	Author	Score	Date	Quote	Read
3DNews	Мила Пономарева	5 / 10	03-16-2024	Some die-hard fans of the original game may find the new Outcast entry appealing. Yet even they will not be impressed by the so-so story and dull open world. At least, the action is decent.	Read review
ACG	Jeremy Penter	Not Recommended	03-14-2024	Video Review	Read review
AltChar	Asmir Kovacevic	68 / 100	03-14-2024	In essence, Outcast: A New Beginning can be characterized as a game brimming with exceptionally promising ideas yet suffering from dismal execution.	Read review
But Why Tho?	Adrian Ruiz	8 / 10	03-14-2024	The joy of Outcast – A New Beginning comes from the freedom of its nonlinear concept.	Read review
CGMagazine	Jordan Biordi	7 / 10	03-14-2024	Outcast	Read review
Checkpoint Gaming	Victor Tan	7 / 10	03-14-2024	Outcast – A New Beginning presents an exciting adventure into the planet of Adelpha. While the innovative combat and environmental interactions are fun, the game is too similar to other open-world RPGs to truly stand out. Exploring Adelpha in its entirety is also challenging because several bugs hamper your progress, sometimes even crashing your game. The game may not break the barrier into greatness, but you can still easily have a good time if you look past the flaws.	Read review
Chicas Gamers	Antonio J. Rodríguez	Not Recommended	03-14-2024	You will like Outcast: a new beginning if you are one of those who played the original adventure, it will be full of nostalgia and memories. If you want to play a game with a well-crafted culture and background, this is your place.	Read review
COGconnected	Mark Steighner	78 / 100	03-14-2024	There are lots of ways in which Outcast: A New Beginning punches way, way up. The world is elaborate and thoroughly imagined. Characters are interesting. Some of the game’s mechanics and elements will seem familiar, but in this case Outcast: A New Beginning can claim it was there first. Unrewarding combat and some bland mission design aside, Outcast: A New Beginning reminds me of many AA games that I loved despite their flaws.	Read review
Everyeye.it	Lorenzo Mango	6.5 / 10	03-14-2024	Outcast A New Beginning offers sometimes interesting alien settings, the backgrounds of a story that is all in all enjoyable, albeit without peaks of excellence.	Read review
Evilgamerz	Daan Nijboer	5 / 10	03-14-2024	Outcast’s return hasn’t been as big as fans of the original had hoped. Where the game excels is the world and the ability to explore with your jetpack, but that’s where the fun ends. Being able to personalize the weapons with the modules of your choice is nice, but on the other hand, the combat itself is not very spectacular. Add to that the bad jokes, the dramatic writing, the boring quests and the technical problems and you quickly end up with a very mediocre game. Outcast – A New Beginning falls short on almost all points, so you actually get bored after a few hours. Fans have had to wait 25 years for a worthy successor, but with A New Beginning they will be disappointed.	Read review
Game Rant	Max Borman	3 / 5 stars	03-14-2024	Outcast: A New Beginning does offer a good amount of fun for those looking to mess around in an open-world sci-fi game that hearkens back to earlier entries in the genre. The world that Appeal created is fun to explore, the core gameplay loop feels like a blast from the past, and overall, it makes for a decent sci-fi experience. The story may not be the most interesting, and the content isn’t that varied, but some players may still be able to find something to enjoy here. And fans of the original should at least enjoy this trip down memory lane, even if it could have been done better.	Read review
GameGrin	Dylan Pamintuan	7 / 10	03-14-2024	Outcast – A New Beginning is a fun time and something fans of the first game may enjoy. It has some issues, but it’s worth experiencing and protecting Adelpha from anyone who wishes to destroy it.	Read review
GAMES.CH	Benjamin Braun	76 / 100	03-14-2024	Outcast: A New Beginning scores with its huge freedom by exploring the world, gaining progress and solving quests in a more or less free order. The humour and the stylish-fantastic graphics are also standing on the bright side, even if some annoying bugs and performance issues do some harm to the strong atmosphere. The bottom line is that A New Beginning is a distinct rise of quality compared to its predecessor in mostly any aspect. But this is not enough for a general recommendation. But if you like the original or the remake from 2017, Outcast: A New Beginning is worth buying.	Read review
GamesCreed	Mehmet Atilla Turan	4.7FALSE	03-14-2024	Outcast – A New Beginning came as a surprise as one of the releases for 2024. Although Appeal hinted at the sequel at certain points, it never caught my attention until now, of course. The graphics, lore, and story are pretty much settled in the Adelpha universe, and fluent gameplay pushes you to learn more about the story of natives and Cutter himself.	Read review
Gaming Nexus	Jason Dailey	7.5 / 10	03-14-2024	Despite its AA veneer, Outcast – A New Beginning is a solid open-world RPG. The combat doesn’t carry its weight, but the quirky characters, fun traversal, and open quest system are the real heavy lifters. It feels like a game from a bygone era and in this instance it works.	Read review
Generación Xbox	Javier Gutierrez Bassols	7.2 / 10	03-14-2024	Twenty years after Outcast, the award-winning action-adventure game, broke new ground in the genre of non-linear open-world games, this long-awaited sequel brings Cutter Slade back to the spectacular alien world of Adelpha. Resurrected by the all-powerful Yods, upon his return he finds Talans enslaved, a world stripped of its natural resources, and its own past mixed with invading robotic forces. It’s up to you to accept the mission to save the planet again.	Read review
God is a Geek	Mick Fraser	7 / 10	03-14-2024	There’s fun to be had in the shooting and gliding, but Outcast: A New Beginning is simply stretched a little too thin.	Read review
Hardcore Gamer	James Cunningham	4 / 5 stars	03-14-2024	Outcast	Read review
Hobby Consolas	Daniel Quesada	78 / 100	03-14-2024	It’s hard to stand out among open-world adventures. Outcast 2 achieves this at times thanks to its light-heartedness and sense of freedom, but neither the missions themselves nor its visual performance manage to rise to the occasion.	Read review
IGN	Unknown	7 / 10	03-14-2024	Outcast: A New Beginning is an effective restart for this all-but-forgotten series. It’s certainly rough around the edges, but outside of Just Cause you probably won’t have more fun with movement in an open-world game than you will here.	Read review
IGN Spain	Rafa Del Río	8 / 10	03-14-2024	Outcast: a New Beginning finally brings us the continuation of a cult game from the 90s. A new experience that mixes the new and the retro to bring us back to simpler times without giving up the ambition of its beautiful open world.	Read review
NoobFeed	Jay Claassen	85 / 100	03-14-2024	Outcast – A New Beginning has endless potential, and it’s a pretty solid game to begin with, but it also needs some work before it really shines. There’s already a great story, a beautiful open world to explore, and an interesting combat system, and let’s not forget about the fully voiced world, but a little bit more polish would do wonders for this release.	Read review
PSX Brasil	Paulo Roberto Montanaro	70 / 100	03-14-2024	Outcast: A New Beginning is very far from any remnant of innovation and may disappoint those who expect something different from what the market already has in droves. But at the same time, it is honest in its simplest and most straightforward proposal, being able to entertain enthusiasts for a good open-world shootout.	Read review
Push Square	John Cal McCormick	5 / 10	03-14-2024	There’s an undeniable charm to Outcast: A New Beginning, and twenty years ago this could have been the breakout hit for an ongoing Outcast franchise, but in 2024 players are spoilt for choice in the realm of third-person action-adventure games. If you’re a fan of the AA, mid-tier shooters we used to get back in the day then this might be worth a look, but otherwise, there’s just not enough here to warrant your attention.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Katharine Castle	Not Recommended	03-14-2024	A poor (and bored) man’s Avatar, Outcast: A New Beginning is a tedious open world shooter that simply doesn’t have anything new to say.	Read review
Saving Content	Scott Ellison II	3 / 5 stars	03-14-2024	The first game was neat for it’s time, and the remake breathed new life into the series. While I’m not sure we needed a sequel, there’s some really neat ideas, quests, systems, and ways of traversing I haven’t quite experienced. There’s clearly a lot of secrets to uncover and things to do in this open-world adventure we’ve seen before, but in a new way. This really feels like a throwback game from a different era mixed with new ideas. While not every component of Outcast – A New Beginning comes together the way it should, it’s still very entertaining and captivating.	Read review
Screen Rant	Rob Gordon	2.5 / 5 stars	03-14-2024	Outcast	Read review
Shacknews	Lucas White	8 / 10	03-14-2024	Times like these I’m glad I get to blindly jump into games like Outcast	Read review
The Beta Network	Anthony Culinas	7 / 10	03-14-2024	Has the 25-year wait been worth it? Well, it depends on what players are looking for. Fans of the first game will most likely be impressed if they’re hunting for a more modern take on the Outcast formula. In contrast, open-world vets might see this as a decent, yet generic outing on an Avatar-like planet.	Read review
Twinfinite	Ali Taha	4 / 5 stars	03-14-2024	Outcast: A New Beginning lives up to the ambition the same developer achieved all those years ago. A captivating story, interesting characters, thoughtful world-building and slick action are only slightly marred by an inconsistent frame-rate, repetitive quests, bugs, and occasional crashes.	Read review
Video Chums	A.J. Maciejewski	8 / 10	03-14-2024	Yes, Outcast	Read review
VideoGamer	Amaar Chowdhury	6 / 10	03-14-2024	Where it innovates in design, Outcast: A New Beginning simultaneously stumbles over its own two feet with a clunkiness emblematic of other games in its niche. The game isn’t better or worse than its competitors – but it’s different enough to deserve some attention	Read review
Wccftech	Francesco De Meo	5.5 / 10	03-14-2024	Outcast	Read review
Worth Playing	Chris “Atom” DeAngelus	7.5 / 10	03-14-2024	Quote coming soon	Read review
XboxEra	Jesse Norris	5.5 / 10	03-14-2024	Outcast: A New Beginning does its best to invoke a sense of wonder as you jetpack 4 feet off of the ground in an occasionally beautiful alien world. Weak writing, terrible performance, and repetitive quest design work together to make it a dour experience in the end.	Read review

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