Outriders Review in Progress
After playing roughly 30 hours of Outriders on PS5, I’ve hit the level cap with my main character and rolled credits on its campaign. Server issues in the first few days delayed that a bit, and there’s a hefty chunk of post-credits content before I reach the final final boss, but I wanted to give you my thoughts on its main campaign now instead of sitting on it until next week. So far, Outriders definitely delivers great sci-fi and superpower-focused action, some cool world design, and a pretty satisfying loot grind. But its occasionally clunky interface, some nasty persistent bugs, and messy story make it seem less like a big-budget science-fiction epic and more like a guilty pleasure Sy-Fy Channel™ original series. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, of course - sure, SyFy might be responsible for Defiance and Hunters , but it also gave us modern classics like Battlestar Galactica and... The Expanse is pretty good, too! (It had to be saved from cancelation by Amazon , but t...