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A Darn Good Time

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought Outlaws when it was released some years ago and was hooked almost immediately. At the time, games such as Quake and Halflife were making waves, so it seemed as though Outlaws would get lost in the shuffle, but it definitely carved its own little niche in the first-person shoot-em-up genre.

Gameplay is smooth, the story is clever and thoughtful, and the music is simply incredible. I honestly have never found another game with a better soundtrack.

Best still is multiplayer Outlaws, which is addictive, to say the least. I don't know if any of the communities still exist (the Zone seemed to vanish awhile ago, for example), but check out IRC or somewhere. You never know!

This is one of the best games I've ever played, hands down.

Breathtaking

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I reccomend Outlaws to all my friends. They made this game in the late 90's so it is extremely hard to find in stores. If you like adventurous, shooting games with overall PERFECT music, then get this. The levels gradually get harder and you will find yourself looking at a strategy guide once in a while. An awesome game.

The new sheriff in town

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Outlaws was released in 1996, and was one of the last 1st-person shooters to retain a sprite-based game engine over a true 3D polygonal one. It's also one of the few western-based shooting games on the market.

You're Marshall James Anderson, a former lawman who takes up the badge again when a railroad baron's goons kill your wife and kidnap your daughter. You'll fight through nine stages, including ghost towns, mines, cliff dwellings, and saw mills on your quest for revenge. Bonus missions send you on bounty-hunting quests for those thugs you never saw during the main game. Lucasarts really nailed the spaghetti western atmosphere and trappings with lots of animated cutscenes and excellent voice work. You can also pop the game CDs into your CD player and hear the highly memorable full-length soundtrack.

But there are problems with Outlaws' gameplay. The environments are still pretty decent, but the enemy sprites were average by 1996 standards, and look pretty bad today. Some of the levels can be disorienting and confusing, and the missions fall into key hunts that aren't much better than the original DOOM. There's really no sense of direction except to run around and open passages until you meet the boss. Bosses aren't as distinctive as in other games, and you might not know you've killed one until the game jumps to a cutscene. To its credit, Outlaws included elements that later became staples of the shooter genre, including having to manually reload (bullet by bullet!), a sniper rifle, and a stamina meter where your character becomes slower and out of breath the longer you run.

I can't say there's much reason to buy this title today if you've been raised on shooters like Half-Life and Halo, but if you're a collector of Lucasarts games and want to experience the high-quality cutscenes and soundtrack, Outlaws is a must-have.

This Pistol Has A Little Rust

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 06, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When it comes down to basic FPS concepts that "Doom" and "Duke Nukem" and "Star Wars: Dark Forces" invented and reinvented, "Outlaws" doesn't really change much. But like those other three games, what distinguishes "Outlaws" is that while the basic gameplay doesn't change, the gaming world is still unique. The riveting music, the colorful scenery, and the heart-thumping sound effects all give "Outlaws" its own identity. However, like most FPS games released in the late 1990s, this one barely stands the test of time.

GRAPHICS
---The animated cutscenes are just as good as they were back when this game first came out. The actual game footage, though, doesn't hold up. Although "Outlaws" doesn't have a choppy feel and flows really nicely, the character models weren't that good to begin with. The environments look really nice, and are diverse enough to keep the experience fresh (trains, towns, waterfalls...this game has all Western settins imaginable), but it's the character graphics that don't hold up. Overall, good but not great.

SOUND
---The music, as I said earlier, is terrific. There are those quiet tracks of sadness, and loud ones to get your trigger-finger quicker than a jackal. The voice-acting is top-notch, as only LucasArts could pull off back in the day. The dialogue actually has a wicked tongue to it, as there are some bad guys just in dire need of a bullet. The gun effects all feel authentic (though, I'm no firearms expert). No complaints here.

GAMEPLAY
---The controls are all customizeable, but the default setup is perfect. I'm more of a keyboard-and-mouse player myself, but joystick and controller players should feel right at home. The level design is diverse, and there are even some tricky puzzles occasionally thrown in. However, this is a shooter - plain and simple. There are no time limits, hostage scenarios, civilian complications...nothing. You will shoot bad guys, find the keys and occassional items, and shoot more bad guys. You won't even find different enemy types, just different gun-toters. There aren't any horse-riders, but at least there aren't any crazy machines or anachronistic villains like that. This game is very fun, but this game came out just after "Star Wars: Jedi Knight", which reinvented FPS games to me. This game was slightly outdated even back then, but it's still good fun to shoot some villains.

OVERALL
---I don't think this game is required gaming, but it won't be a waste of your time. The multi-player isn't outstanding, but for its time, this was pretty good gaming. I don't think any Western games have come even close to matching this one, but that doesn't mean that this game is a classic.

CLASSIC!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: May 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Hey George Lucas any day now. Get off your duff and make the sequel to the best game ever created by LucasArts. Enough is enough. No more Star Wars games.

One of the Greatest Games of All Time!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

My friend and I played this game when it originally came out and we were blown away by the brilliant story, amazing cutsecenes, and tremedous gameplay. I was at my friends house and we found it in his garage. We had't played this game in around 8 years! We popped it into his computer and we brought back to the good old days when graphics weren't the only important thing about games. This is the best western video game. I hope you enjoy it as much as my friend and I did.

VERY GOOD

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: May 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Outlaws is very fun if you dont cheat and its the best if you can snipe someone!!!!!

WORST GAME EVER!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 16
Date: April 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game was so amazingly bad that i almost threw my computer out the window. Horrible graphics and bad multiplayer action if there was any. After about three levels you get stuck and can't go anywhere. DO NOT BUY THIS GAME you will be seriously dispointed in you're self and wish you hadn't wasted 15 bucks on it

great

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

so many levels sooooooo exciting. Appropriate for all ages! Buy this game for anyone, they'll love it!

Class by itself.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

No other western even comes close to this game. If you like to see the bad guys get whats comin to em then this is for you. It's definitely a keeper.
Durango

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