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Outlaws

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 10
Date: September 05, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Outlaws is a first person shooter set in the wild west. The story line is you play the hero and have to rescue your daughter from the villan. Built on a dated engine with wonky physics, Dated graphics and a 2.5D design. Very dull gameplay with no atmosphere and a box of rocks AI. Gameplay is nothing but shoot the baddies, Find key, Open door, Shoot more baddies, Find another Key ect ect. Outlaws is very dissapointing.

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

Outlaws should be outlawed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 13
Date: June 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Well to say the least, I was very dissapointed with this "Outlaws". Maybe I am spoiled by the latyest games, but this one is awful. Bad graphics of the era prior to Duke Nukem. It is just a waste of money. It should have been removed from the supply bin years ago. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY. You will be very sorry. 1 star is being generous. I removed the game after 5 minutes and tossed it into the trash.

Outlaws

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 11
Date: November 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Outlaws is a first person shooter set in the wild west. The story line is you play the hero and have to rescue your daughter from the villan. Built on a outdated engine with wonky physics, Dated graphics and a 2.5D design. Very dull gameplay with no atmosphere and a box of rocks AI. Gameplay is nothing but shoot the baddies, Find key, Open door, Shoot more baddies, Find another Key ect ect. Outlaws is very dissapointing.

CHEESY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 13
Date: July 30, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Rotten graphics and gameplay. Do not waste your time! I was dissapointed!!

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.

Fun -- but could be better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great game for people who enjoy basic "blast the bad guys into oblivion" setup. The levels are intriguing and all very unique, but some can get very boring after a while of running around trying to find some hidden door that does nothing other than allow you to get to the next level. But there are good aspects to the game such as --i think-- 9 different types of weapons to choose from, along with great and funny sounds to go along with them. Buy it if you like, but beware, there are a lot of time wasting stages to go through, so if you are buying for pure enjoyment and not time wasting, be careful--get some cheats to let you skip levels or something..

Dated, but really fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: September 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'll start by saying that this game is really dated. If I'd written this review 3 years ago, I'd have given the game 5 stars.

I liked the game so much for several reasons. First, it is one of the few old west games on the market - a genre that I think is far underutilized in the gaming industry.

Second, the story is quite good. The opening cinematic is done cartoon-style, and so holds up well even today. The opening is quite long, and does a lot to get the player involved, and set a dark mood for the game.

Third, this game has a more realistic damage system than most (but not all) other 1st person shooters on the market. Your character isn't armored to the hilt, and so one or two well-placed shots will likely take him out.

Overall, if you don't mind the graphics this is a darned good game. As I always say - the play's the thing!

A Pleasant Surprise

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: January 15, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is similar in quality to the other LucasArts FPS, "Jedi Knight". I bought this game at a clearance sale and I was surprised by how much fun this game is to play. If you like playing other FPSs like "Quake 2" and "Shogo" and are looking for something new, try this old game.

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