Amazon Maximum Age: 20 years Amazon Minimum Age: 144 months Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Lucas Arts EAN: 0023272951184 ESRB Age Rating: Teen Format: CD-ROM Label: LucasArts Entertainment Manufacturer: LucasArts Entertainment Model: 95118 Publisher: LucasArts Entertainment Sales Rank: 13961 Studio: LucasArts Entertainment
Amazon.com Review: Hey pardner, you lookin' for something more from your 3-D first-person shooters than mindless action and unrelated levels that serve more as technological showcases than as settings for a coherent story? Maybe it's time you cinched your gun belt, strapped on your spurs, and entered the atmospheric world of Outlaws, a genuine classic of a game that thrusts players into a Wild West adventure with a spaghetti Western plot. You're a retired marshal recently coaxed out of retirement by the sinister, mustachioed bad guys that killed your wife, burned your farm, shot your dog, and stole your Bible.
Outlaws has a lot to offer fans of single-player action, but the graphics are strictly love 'em or leave 'em. The cutscenes used to advance the plot are rendered in gritty comic-book fashion, and that design theme extends to the actual gameplay. Everything from the enemies you fight to the guns you carry have the look of a graphic novel, and that might not appeal to gamers used to being thrust into game worlds that display everything in full 3-D. Here the environments are 3-D, but all the characters and objects are reminiscent of cardboard cutouts.
We appreciated this design decision, as it drew us further into the game's plot and made transitions from the movies to the interactive portions more seamless. Even now, several years after its release, Outlaws still inspires cries of "yeehaw!" every time we load it up. --T. Byrl Baker
Pros:
The plot, voice work, and especially the music exude classic Western movie style
A strong graphic design with even stronger gameplay
Cutscenes are done well
Somewhat realistic elements like having to manually reload your guns make for tense action
Cons:
It's an older game and won't impress the majority of the 3-D action crowd
Amazon.com Product Description: In Outlaws, you are the embodiment of the loner who rides into town seeking vengeance and uncovers the twisted plot of a powerful railroad baron and his outlaw thugs. Outlaws is a hybrid of strategic action-adventure and network play in an intense and graphically rich environment.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A Darn Good Time
I bought Outlaws when it was released some years ago and was hooked almost immediately. At the time, games such as Quake and Halflife were making waves, so it seemed as though Outlaws would get lost in the shuffle, but it definitely carved its own little niche in the first-person shoot-em-up genre.
Gameplay is smooth, the story is clever and thoughtful, and the music is simply incredible. I honestly have never found another game with a better soundtrack.
Best still is multiplayer Outlaws, which is addictive, to say the least. I don't know if any of the communities still exist (the Zone seemed to vanish awhile ago, for example), but check out IRC or somewhere. You never know!
This is one of the best games I've ever played, hands down.
Rating: - Breathtaking
I reccomend Outlaws to all my friends. They made this game in the late 90's so it is extremely hard to find in stores. If you like adventurous, shooting games with overall PERFECT music, then get this. The levels gradually get harder and you will find yourself looking at a strategy guide once in a while. An awesome game.
Rating: - The new sheriff in town
Outlaws was released in 1996, and was one of the last 1st-person shooters to retain a sprite-based game engine over a true 3D polygonal one. It's also one of the few western-based shooting games on the market.
You're Marshall James Anderson, a former lawman who takes up the badge again when a railroad baron's goons kill your wife and kidnap your daughter. You'll fight through nine stages, including ghost towns, mines, cliff dwellings, and saw mills on your quest for revenge. Bonus missions send you on bounty-hunting quests for those thugs you never saw during the main game. Lucasarts really nailed the spaghetti western atmosphere and trappings with lots of animated cutscenes and excellent voice work. You can also pop the game CDs into your CD player and hear the highly memorable full-length soundtrack.
But there are problems with Outlaws' gameplay. The environments are still pretty decent, but the enemy sprites were average by 1996 standards, and look pretty bad today. Some of the levels can be disorienting and confusing, and the missions fall into key hunts that aren't much better than the original DOOM. There's really no sense of direction except to run around and open passages until you meet the boss. Bosses aren't as distinctive as in other games, and you might not know you've killed one until the game jumps to a cutscene. To its credit, Outlaws included elements that later became staples of the shooter genre, including having to manually reload (bullet by bullet!), a sniper rifle, and a stamina meter where your character becomes slower and out of breath the longer you run.
I can't say there's much reason to buy this title today if you've been raised on shooters like Half-Life and Halo, but if you're a collector of Lucasarts games and want to experience the high-quality cutscenes and soundtrack, Outlaws is a must-have.
Rating: - VERY GOOD
Outlaws is very fun if you dont cheat and its the best if you can snipe someone!!!!!
Rating: - WORST GAME EVER!!!
This game was so amazingly bad that i almost threw my computer out the window. Horrible graphics and bad multiplayer action if there was any. After about three levels you get stuck and can't go anywhere. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME you will be seriously dispointed in you're self and wish you hadn't wasted 15 bucks on it
- A Darn Good Time
- The new sheriff in town
- WORST GAME EVER!!!
