Fallout

By: Ashten Elliott

Have you ever played Fallout and thought this is cool, but what if it was in space (except for Mothership Zeta of course) well then I have the game for you. The Outer Worlds is a game made by Obsidian the guys who made the original Fallout games, New Vegas, Knights of the old Republic, and the South Park games, so I think that they have a pretty good track record. In the Outer Worlds, you take control of a colonist on the Hope an abandoned space transport full of some of the best humanity had to offer. You are revived by Dr.Phineas who no longer has a triangle head nor a brother named Ferb. Phineas sends you to gather more materials in order to find a way to thaw out the rest of the Hope’s colonists who remain in Cryostasis. You land on Terra 2 which as you may expect is like a second Earth only more chaotic and alien. You have to get a power core for your ship and to do that you need to go to the first town. Upon getting to the first city in the game you are met with your first choice of the game which is to choose between giving power to a small Backwater town named Edgewater or to a group of deserters who left the jobs given to them by the board which is a group of corporations who rule the halcyon colony. Taking a break from the story the game is as you may expect an RPG that gives you a lot of freedom to explore the several planets in the colony and multiple ways to deal with each situation. Character progression follows a similar formula to New Vegas where every level you get stat points to put into your stats and every other level you get a perk point, unlike vegas every twenty points put into a level unlocks a free perk correlating to that skill. Up to 50 skill points you assign points to a category and everything undergoes up, so if I put one point into guns at twenty points my big guns, long guns, and handguns all go up to 21. Besides character building which I recommend looking up a guide for since they don’t explain some things super well the game itself looks really nice. The game has a kind of frontier vibe which means you’re basically a space cowboy, at least that’s what it feels like. Every area has different biomes and new really cool looking wildlife to fight. Overall, if you like semiopen world RPGs than I would highly recommend The Outer Worlds which is one of the best I’ve ever played.