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DutchKid
post Aug 15 2004, 10:29 PM
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Has anyone ever played this game? I've just bought this game for about 5 euro, coz it's a very old game. I still love it thought! It's just too damn bad that part 2 was discontinued.

I vote this game as Game of the Sentury!

http://www.outcast-thegame.com/


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post Aug 15 2004, 11:38 PM
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I actually found this exact game the other day on one of my old hard drives .... can't find the install CDs for the life of me .... I had quite a few stolen by a flatmate once and this one looks like it was another victim. With bump mapping and Antialiasing it was waaaaay ahead of anything else at that time. Anyway, it barely ran on my old system due to the specs (Celeron300 I think), but what I saw impressed my greatly for it's time.

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Outcast is the all-new 3D-action-adventure developed by the young and     ³
³ ambitious software company Appeal, who have set up their camp in          ³
³ Namur, Belgium. In Outcast the player aka hero Cutter Slade has to        ³
³ fight, sneak and discuss his way through a parallel-world full of         ³
³ bloodthirsty enemies and neutral NPCs. Unlike anything ever seen          ³
³ before, Outcast seems to be the first game to deliver "Real-Life-3D",     ³
³ possible by generating a highly interactive environment with it's own     ³
³ ground-breaking artificial intelligence system GAIA. Featuring            ³
³ top-notch Voxel- and Polygon-graphics and a huge world to discover,       ³
³                                                                           ³
³ Outcast is heading to be one of the blockbusters of the year.             ³
³                                                                           ³
³ Read more about this great game at www.outcast-game.com and               ³
³ www.outcastcentral.com.                                                   ³
³                                                                           ³
³                                                                           ³
³ Features:                                                                 ³
³ ~~~~~~~~~                                                                 ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Revolutionary Graphics-engine combining Voxel-landscapes and           ³
³    buildings with Polygon-characters                                      ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - 6 huge worlds                                                          ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - 163000 displayed voxels per frame                                      ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - 24 million voxels per world                                            ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Over 20 different character types                                      ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Skeletal Animation                                                     ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - 52000 motion-captured animation frames                                 ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Up to 20 textures per character                                        ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - All current state-of-the-art graphic-features like Gouraud Shading,    ³
³    Coloured Lighting, Texture Mapping, Mip-mapping, 32bit Z-buffering,    ³
³    Bilinear Filtering etc.                                                ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Bump-Mapping                                                           ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Anti-Aliasing                                                          ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Dynamic Shadowing                                                      ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Advanced Particle System                                               ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Advanced materials rendering (skin, chrome, metal, translucend...)     ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Realistic Physics Engine                                               ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Advanced AI featuring natural instincts (self-preservation, hunger,    ³
³    exhaustion...), emotions (curiosity, fear...) and wishes (earn         ³
³    money, information, make friends...)                                   ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Complete social structure with money, food and information flow        ³
³    consisting of 600 individual NPCs                                      ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - 1st and 3rd person perspective                                         ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Intelligent AI-grunts, who communicate, duck behind obstacles, use     ³
³    advanced combat tactics (flanking, covering...) and flee when they     ³
³    are about to be overrun                                                ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - 6 weapons, each of which can be upgraded 3 times (including Flame      ³
³    Thrower, Grenade, Launcher, Laser...)                                  ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - Lots of useful tools and items like X-ray goggles,  a cloaking         ³
³    device, explosives, a holographic projector etc.                       ³
³                                                                           ³
³  - 60 minutes of original music (Moscow Symphony Orchestra) - 24          ³
³    singers in the chorus   


Might have to put the drive back into my new hardware (P4 3Ghz) and see if it'll run :D

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Voidrunner
post Aug 16 2004, 01:12 AM
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I've actually been thinking about this game again recently.
How about setting up a bittorrent or something for it? I would like to try playing it again.
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post Aug 16 2004, 04:13 PM
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I loved this game. Strangley it doesnt seem that old to me :blink: What "part 2" are you talking about? Jedi Acadamy?


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post Aug 16 2004, 07:24 PM
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Dude, wrong outcast.

This isn't one of the Star Wars games. This was a completely different universe and it was called simply "Outcast".
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post Aug 19 2004, 10:00 AM
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It has nothing to do with Star Wars.

This is the part 2 I was talking about: http://www.outcast-2.de/ (German site).
I'm playing it right now it's a bit pixely, but after a while the story line takes over and you'll just be amazed about the time and effort that they've put in...


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post Aug 19 2004, 04:53 PM
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oh_________my bad. Never heard of the game. So many games come out I cant keep track of all of them.


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