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According to the press release ‘The Outsider’ will bring all new gameplay elements, only possible on next-gen hardware, and will not focus solely on beautiful graphics, but merely use them as a starting point to a great game. The Outsider will abandon the traditional linear story of most current-gen games, and replace it with real simulations of characters’ motivations and aims. This is said to give the player the freedom to change the way the story unfolds, with each player getting a “truly unique, sophisticated, visceral experience.“
The Outsider is a high-tech thriller set in a living and breathing present-day Washington DC. You play a CIA operative with a huge arsenal of weaponry, gadgets and combat talents available to him. At the beginning of the game you’ll be wrongly turned into public enemy number one and from there are left with many choices on how to proceed in the game.
“The new games consoles like Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 offer a massive opportunity in the future of gaming. One of the comparisons I like to make is with the film industry – we’re at the stage that the film industry was at in 1930, where people had started to tire of effects driven ‘car-on-a-train-track’ films and wanted something more, just as technology and budgets greatly increased to bring in the golden age of Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Wells and many others. A golden age of games is now just around the corner, and I believe ‘The Outsider’ is one of the first of these.” said David Braben, Chairman and Founder of Frontier.
Frontier has made some bold claims, but only time will tell if The Outsider turns out to be the revolutionary next-generation title they claim it will be.
