You become an Altered, gifted with god-like powers. In a strange twist of fate, the storm spares you. This electro-magnetic storm kills people instantly, destroys electronics and causes certain doom. After landing, however, things go awry and you meet what people later call the Anomaly. You play as an Outrider, a vanguard meant to establish the first bases on Enoch. Outriders takes place on the planet of Enoch, humanity’s last hope of survival after life on Earth crumbles. This bittersweet cycle continues for the entire game.
On one hand, I enjoy this, but that enjoyment and thrill tends to wear off in the face of the next challenging battle. If you’re anything like me, you’ll refuse to lower the World Tier, instead throwing yourself into battle over and over, trying new strategies each time. Outriders can be a lot of fun, with plenty of rewards. Boss fights are more often than not a war of attrition, making for artificial challenges. Mini-bosses absorb your bullets like sponges, and your supposedly god-tier powers feel underwhelming in the face of what they can do. You’ll also have tank and melee enemies that rush you, snipers that always know where you are and uncannily well-thrown grenades to flush you out of cover. Their aim is on point, cross-mapping you with an assault rifle at full strength. Outriders defaults to using the highest World Tier available.Īt higher difficulties, even the most basic enemies can easily kill you.
The game operates on World Tiers: levels that you rank up to increase difficulty while improving loot drops. You can, of course, also play solo - however, solo play can be quite challenging at higher difficulty levels. Like other looter-shooters, you can play Outriders with friends or strangers, teaming up against the hordes of enemies. It admittedly starts to feel repetitive after a while, with the same enemy types (with different skins) over and over. You’ll fight in a series of shooting galleries, complete with an abundance of enemies. The game consists of different areas on the world map, with various local zones in which you complete quests. It tries to be a jack of all trades and a master of none, which works relatively well. Outriders blends all of those gameplay styles together into something new. When I played the Outriders demo a little while ago, I drew comparisons to Destiny, Gears of War and The Division.
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