Pc game outpost

The graphics of Outpost are just as drop-dead gorgeous as the initial release and remain a pure pleasure to view on your computer screen. Hard science predictions and practical applications are integrated smoothly into game play and give you a feeling of real life prototypes and equipment this isn't surprising considering the designer, Bruce Balfour, is an ex-NASA scientist. The story is about basic survival on a hostile, unfriendly alien planet with a deadly atmosphere and scarce resources.

Survival ultimately depends on research and development and timely applications of new technology. One minor complaint deals with the unbelievable storyline that the remaining members of the entire human race would willingly split into two rival factions bent on each others destruction at a time when the very existence of the race is in dire peril.

If you can get past that absurd supposition, there is a lot of enjoyable and challenging game play to be found. In an area where I simply disagree with some of the harsher critics of the game, I feel the design team was right on the money in suggesting the need for and importance of developing social skills and establishment of a very ordered society complete with laws and the wherewithal to enforce them.

Certainly some sort of structured and rigid compliance with set policies would be a must for survival within such a confined place with deadly consequences resulting from a societal meltdown. You start out by picking a planet from a star map but even this is fraught with danger as you have no real idea of what the difference between any of them is, so it's just a question of pot luck.

Moving on to the main gameplay, all this involves is simply clicking on buttons in order to perform various actions but which rarely approaches fun. Much of what you need to do is never really explained, so again it all comes down to luck and experimentation but which again is just tedious rather than enjoyable.

The problems go on but really, you're just better off avoiding this altogether. Outpost is a strategy game with a very good science fiction theme. The plot in the game is that earth is about to be hit by an asteroid that will completely destroy it. All the efforts have be made to divert its direction but none of them has been successful.

A single corporation decided the only way for survival was to colonize other worlds. One ship was launched and as it sat in orbit around Jupiter, Earth was no more. Now it is your task to seek out a new planet and repopulate it with human life. The game is set in an isometric third person perspective, like that of SimCity , in which you must re-colonize the planet while dealing with the intricacies of day-to-day life.

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