The Outer Worlds 2 gets a release date

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The Outer Worlds 2 has a merchandise date. It was shown successful a caller trailer astatine the Xbox Games Showcase, and featured thing respective unnamed scientists are calling "humour".

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The merchandise day is October 29. "An escapade into capitalism by capitalism," says the trailer above, possibly misunderstanding the conception of irony. You play an Earth Directorate agent, who ends up connected the supra planet, Arcadia, "where the destiny of the colony, and yet the full galaxy, rests connected your decisions—your strengths, your flaws, your crew, and the factions you take to trust".

We've seen rather a chunk of The Outer Worlds 2 already, including 11 thouroughly whelming minutes of first-person blastin' and questy chattin'. Developers Obsidian astir shelved the sci-fi sequel during the Covid pandemic due to the fact that they had excessively galore projects going astatine erstwhile and it each got a spot much, according to the studio's head. But years later, present we are.

The archetypal Outer Worlds was okay, according to Alice B's reappraisal (RPS successful peace). Although it didn't truly veer excessively acold disconnected the well-trodden abstraction lanes established by galore different space-faring RPGs. Here's what Alice said:

The Outer Worlds is alright, innit. It's bully fun. Sit backmost and fto the orangish and neon lavation implicit you. Boo the cartoonishly evil corporations. Exhale done your chemoreceptor astatine their Diet Toothpaste. I stake I'll play it again, successful fact. But you tin archer it could person been great, if it had taken a fewer much risks. Real abstraction cowboys instrumentality risks, don't they?

Maybe this 1 volition astonishment us.