The Outer Worlds 2 Gameplay Trailer Highlights Alien Weapons as Launch Looms | IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025

The Outer Worlds 2 has a batch of guns, truthful developer Obsidian Entertainment stopped by IGN Fall Fan Fest 2025 to springiness fans a sneak peek astatine the arsenal they’ll person astatine their disposal erstwhile motorboat arrives aboriginal this month.

Today’s caller look astatine the studio’s sci-fi RPG follow-up arrives successful the signifier of a minute-and-a-half-long trailer acceptable to a catchy tune and caller gameplay footage. The video’s code rides a enactment betwixt Borderlands and Fallout, arsenic the player’s chosen Earth Directorate cause tin beryllium seen wielding everything from explosive rocket launchers and melee tools to Spacer’s Choice-branded rifles featuring their lunar mascot, Moon Man.

Each of The Outer Worlds 2’s colorful guns has unsocial properties that volition nary uncertainty assistance players connected their travel done the abstraction colony of Arcadia. We astir apt don’t request to explicate wherefore a buzzsaw mounted connected the extremity of a unit oregon wrist-mounted weapon mightiness travel successful handy, but the trailer does a bully occupation of showing disconnected however antithetic weapons tin beryllium used. Other highlights from the footage see a lime-green acerb weapon that melts bodies, alien pistols, and adjacent biology hazards similar a ceiling-mounted turret.

Another prima of the caller The Outer Worlds 2 trailer is the antithetic factions, which tin beryllium recovered crossed a assortment of locations that look similar they were ripped consecutive retired of the all-time large sci-fi stories. It’s a jam-packed teaser up of launch, and it’s undeniably Obsidian.

The Outer Worlds 2 has a merchandise day of October 29, 2025, for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S. We went hands-on with a demo for its archetypal hr past period and came distant excited to spot however the remainder of the sequel builds upon the 2019 original’s foundation. At the time, IGN’s Matt Purslow said, “While I appreciated Obsidian’s anterior effort astatine this universe, I ne'er wholly fell for it, but what the workplace has achieved present successful this prologue is precisely what I’d hoped for the archetypal clip around.”

For more, you tin work our interrogation with Obsidian VP of operations Marcus Morgan. You tin besides larn astir wherefore you won’t person to interest astir Microsoft games costing $80 this vacation season.

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