Outriders

 Xbox Series X
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7.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 375 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 42 out of 375
  3. Negative: 84 out of 375
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  1. Waylon28
    Oct 23, 2022
    9
    Do not listen to the “0” reviews. Outriders is a fantastic game! I am a gaming grampa and have been gaming since the late 1980’s and this title is one of my favorites. I joined Metacritic just to write this review to dispute the boo birds.
    The controls are wonderful. The leveling of gear and the options of types of gear are also wonderful. There are so many different ways to play the game    Do not listen to the “0” reviews. Outriders is a fantastic game! I am a gaming grampa and have been gaming since the late 1980’s and this title is one of my favorites. I joined Metacritic just to write this review to dispute the boo birds.
    The controls are wonderful. The leveling of gear and the options of types of gear are also wonderful. There are so many different ways to play the game that it makes it fun to replay just to see if you can make a stronger character. I found the story to be compelling if you paid attention to it. It may have had glitches when it was released, but it runs like a clock now. My crew played the first story and then Worldslayer this past week and we had a blast! Outriders plays like a more in depth Borderlands (which I also loved). Please, please Square Enix make an Outriders 2. This is a wonderful game and story and I can’t wait to see where it goes.    … Expand
  2. Kaprawiec
    Mar 24, 2022
    10
    One of my favourite TPP shooter. So underrated, this One have really excellent story, good shooting mechanic and awesome looting system. Shame it didnt got better reviews, because I would love to see sequel one day. I will definitely play this game in comming years, already finished this on XSX from XGP, now I bought a copyright on PS5 to supportddvs and to play this again.
  3. Steff86
    Feb 22, 2022
    0
    This is how mediocre Gamepass day one games are! This game was dead within a week.
  4. TheVezyrQ
    Feb 8, 2022
    8
    Outriders was very good coop game and this game leaves a good impression. Cool gun play and end game but that's all. After all there was nothing to do. Story and music was great. Happy that it was in gamepass.
  5. symmetriebruch
    Feb 7, 2022
    2
    the worst parts of a very very poor mans version of gears mixed with destiny in bad bland and boring.
    this is what happens when you don´t have the first clue about gamedesign, these mechanics actively work against eachother. this is what happens when you design by committee and don´t actual play anything yourself. i´m about 2 hours in and already bored **** it´s like a shooting gallery    the worst parts of a very very poor mans version of gears mixed with destiny in bad bland and boring.
    this is what happens when you don´t have the first clue about gamedesign, these mechanics actively work against eachother. this is what happens when you design by committee and don´t actual play anything yourself. i´m about 2 hours in and already bored **** it´s like a shooting gallery mini game in other games that´s at best a slight diversion for a few minutes but would be an utter chore if that´s all you get. and this is all you get, lifeless soulless derivative garbage. and top top it off you can´t even pause the **** game when playing offline. i feel bad for the staff who had to work on this since technically it´s well made it looks good and runs welll on series x but that´s unfortunately completely irrelevant if its boring as **** and it feels more and more pointless and like biggest waste of time the longer you play.    … Expand
  6. kambing860210
    Jan 15, 2022
    6
    buggy, bad story and characters, low drop rates even with world tier 10, just brute force shooting like serious sam, but with 3 skills and loots
  7. Peter_ElGrifo
    Nov 17, 2021
    10
    A Atualização gratuita está muito top,recomendo a todos voltarem a jogar
  8. rubensmiranda
    Nov 11, 2021
    10
    I really enjoyed the game. I thought the story was too good, about how the planet Enoch got blown up. Gamelay is completely addictive.
  9. Koteevich
    Oct 8, 2021
    3
    Унылое, бесящее говнище. Не знаю кто в это играет и уж тем более получает удовольствие.
  10. pdt1308
    Sep 22, 2021
    7
    This is a very good game. The lore, the world, the combat, it all drew me right in and was a lot of fun. That being said, there isn't a lot of reason to continue once you beat the game. You can keep doing the same stuff on more difficult settings and max your character, but that portion of the game is extremely repetitive. My wish for this game is that they make a second but, tryingThis is a very good game. The lore, the world, the combat, it all drew me right in and was a lot of fun. That being said, there isn't a lot of reason to continue once you beat the game. You can keep doing the same stuff on more difficult settings and max your character, but that portion of the game is extremely repetitive. My wish for this game is that they make a second but, trying not to get into spoiler territory, before the planet ends up as it is.… Expand
  11. Hanakan
    Sep 8, 2021
    8
    Spend some time in this game.. can’t say it’s was something special , but it can give you some interesting content to play
  12. SQueek
    Aug 30, 2021
    9
    It is a real solid game which kept my playing the campaign until the very end. Good story, good gameplay, starts hard and gets easier with every item you find. Good sidequests. You start to optimize with every item you carry in your backpack and with all the skills you have. For me it was fun. One point minus was the german synchro. It was not perfect and was sometimes made without love.It is a real solid game which kept my playing the campaign until the very end. Good story, good gameplay, starts hard and gets easier with every item you find. Good sidequests. You start to optimize with every item you carry in your backpack and with all the skills you have. For me it was fun. One point minus was the german synchro. It was not perfect and was sometimes made without love. But had no big effect on my overall game rating… Expand
  13. Queruba
    Jul 12, 2021
    5
    Esperar o que da publisher Square Enix? Jogo é mediano, mas com servidores offline.
  14. Bato
    Aug 2, 2021
    7
    Story: 6/10
    Gameplay: 7/10
    Graphics: 7/10
    Enjoyability: 8/10
    Overall: 7/10
  15. DANTESFENIX2
    Aug 1, 2021
    8
    Juego que desprecie cuando salió la beta, ahora que tengo series x lo jugué gracias al gamepass y quedé sorprendido , está bastante bien el juego, me gusto lo suficiente como para acabarlo, se merece un 8 entretiene tiene buen gameplay, nada del otro mundo pero tampoco es una basura, para jugarlo gratis me parece bastante divertido
  16. Brunoar16
    Jul 22, 2021
    4
    Gostei campanha incrível sem ser enjoativa otimos gráficos no Xbox séries x
  17. one2tres
    Jul 20, 2021
    8
    I got hooked after the first few 'get to know the game' missions. Played it right after completing the Gears 5 campaign. Better than i was expecting based on things I heard. I would actually play this again. Can't say the same for Gears 5, even though I enjoyed that too.
  18. byAEG7
    Jun 30, 2021
    9
    A looter style thirds person shooter that uses its story based mechanics to enhance its gameplay and give it its unique style. The different gameplay styles give a good variety to the game and lets the player really customize the way he wants to play. All of that without mentioning the really good story it tells
  19. Jeremie198630
    Jun 29, 2021
    10
    Excellent jeux. Le système de loot est vraiment au point et la difficulté du jeux est gérable via un systeme de "monde " (difficulté). Les graphismes sont correct et le gameplay ainsi que les parties avec dautres joueurs (amis) est jouissive. Bravo People can fly!
  20. Mindkiller7522
    Jun 14, 2021
    4
    Outriders (XSX) 3/21/21-6/13/21 100% Main Story (Solo) 100% Side Quests (Solo) 4/10

    The positives of Outriders have been handled better in other games. I don't have any experience with the multiplayer, but the single player is ultimately a boring experience. You start the game as a soldier colonizing a new planet after Earth is destroyed. Pretty early on you get hit by an alien    Outriders (XSX) 3/21/21-6/13/21 100% Main Story (Solo) 100% Side Quests (Solo) 4/10

    The positives of Outriders have been handled better in other games. I don't have any experience with the multiplayer, but the single player is ultimately a boring experience.

    You start the game as a soldier colonizing a new planet after Earth is destroyed. Pretty early on you get hit by an alien storm and then put in to cryo sleep. You wake up in Mad Max-ville (although less cool) and find out you have God-like superpowers.

    Your unnamed protagonist will then proceed to grump and quip his way through a disjointed and convoluted story complete with several narrative dead ends and lots of exposition. It gets to a point at the end where you'll have very long radio conversations where the writers have to explain what's going on.

    Most of the important story moments wind up not landing in a dramatic way because you just don't get attached to the characters. Some seemingly cool story threads are dropped before they even get started.

    The repetitive aspect comes from the fact that every single area has you clearing out an arena full of enemies. They'll either be mutant monsters, humans, humans in different colored armor, or mutant monsters. You'll likely get real sick of the words “Clear the area”. The fights can be made pretty easy, but after a few encounters it just feels like a slog. Sometimes a certain gun will work well for a while, but you'll be changing gear too often to really get attached to anything or feel like upgrading.

    So with every mission (main or side) the flow is like this- watch cutscene-cringe inwardly-walk into a room full of enemies-kill every single one (the game won't let you move forward until you do)-interact with object-repeat from either step 3 or step 1 for 15 or so hours. Only to be interrupted by many graphical or sound glitches and game crashing.

    I didn't get to attached to building a character, but at least using the powers in combat was pretty cool. You can choose from several classes, but hearing that they were the easiest for a solo experience I went with the Trickster. Teleportation and slicing through enemies with a Temporal Blade was excellent and reminded me a bit of Mass Effect in a very positive way.

    In the end, this game needed a lot in order to be decent, but we can only judge it based on what was given to us-rather than what could have been. The same combat and class powers in a better story with less forced enemy encounters would have been great.    … Expand
  21. SofronIlya
    Jun 2, 2021
    8
    Неожиданно классный сюжет для такой игры,зацепил + классная стрельба и способности = 8
  22. MrMT
    May 18, 2021
    5
    When this game worked, it was tremendous fun, but unfortunately that experience was spoiled by a buggy launch, which got even worse over time, at one stage effectively wiping characters with all their progression. After a couple of months that issue was tackled, but matchmaking remained poor, and a game meant to be played co-op ended for the most part a lonely single player experience.
  23. Reed618
    May 17, 2021
    8
    This game was a real nice surprise. I'd kind of written it off but since it was free on gamepass I gave it a go and it turned out to be surprisingly fun with some well implemented design ideas.

    Loot is easy to collect and dispose of on the go so it doesn't build up too quickly and rather than being a typical cover shooter like gears the focus is on movement. Speeding around the    This game was a real nice surprise. I'd kind of written it off but since it was free on gamepass I gave it a go and it turned out to be surprisingly fun with some well implemented design ideas.

    Loot is easy to collect and dispose of on the go so it doesn't build up too quickly and rather than being a typical cover shooter like gears the focus is on movement. Speeding around the battlefield, slamming your fists into the ground and then using abilities on another group of enemies before ducking into cover to take a few shots at some others.. it's frantic and a real good time.

    I couldn't even finish gears 5, it just got so repetitive and nothing about it's story interested me. But the abilities in outriders made the experience really enjoyable. I also loved how dark and messed up the story is. Taking the time to read the lore as I progressed really painted a picture of a world on the brink of collapse. People making tough choices and countless others suffering from the outcome.

    All in all i'd say this is definitely worth checking out. I don't think i'll stick with it into the endgame or make use of the online features. But as a single player experience it's great. There are some unfortunate bugs though. It crashed three times and also the audio went out of sync in the final cutscene. There were a couple of moments when the framerate dropped too. All in all not too bad but it still has some issues that need to be patched.    … Expand
  24. Poiter_23
    May 17, 2021
    7
    I adore this game, for its amazing combat and build diversity. Anomaly powers are great. But my god the bugs and issues:
    Cant match make
    When I do match make its so large its unplayable
    Map is absolute trash
    Quests bug out
    Cant place map markers

    Ultimately the bugs and technical issues just seem inexcusable and have forced me to stop playing
  25. GabiMalka
    May 17, 2021
    10
    One of the best games around. Somewhat similar in mechanics to Gears 5, yet much better in terms of campaign storyline and game depth - specifically playing on Xbox Series X. Highly recommended. The bad reviews are misleading as most are about servers availability early on, as well as some stability/quality issues long fixed.
  26. Decstar1
    May 16, 2021
    10
    Love this game so far about 10+ hours in im finding it very addictive its a cross between gears and destiny in the best ways really enjoying the story defo worth giving a go
  27. LimitBreak
    May 10, 2021
    8
    The story's not great, the dialogue is terrible, and the graphics are mid-range.......but it is a lot of fun.

    I never thought I'd play for as long as I have but the the progression through looting is addictive enough and rapid enough to keep me coming back.
  28. zibib19
    May 10, 2021
    10
    Dont listen to half the bad reviews havnt encountered a single bug and the game is ridicoulsy fun its like gears of war borderlands 3 and destiny had a baby 10/10 would reccomend and the boss fights are sick.
  29. bohalaa
    May 3, 2021
    7
    the game is good but servers are broken, you spend your time on waiting more than playing. i spent hours in signing in and trying join players, and lose host connection, i restart my xbox sx and router to play. i waited almost month to be fixed but seem they don't know how to fix their game, i gave up on it.
  30. huszarka
    May 8, 2021
    1
    More than 1 month after release, it quits because of ,,Outriders server problem". And you cannot play NOW (when I write this, 2021.05.08!) Oh, and I play it in single player mode, alone. So I cannot get it. But never buy this crap...
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 38 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 25 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 38
  3. Negative: 1 out of 38
  1. ZTGD
    Apr 28, 2021
    75
    Visually the game looks good. We have not gotten a lot of titles to showcase these new consoles and Outriders does a good job with a rock-solid 60fps on Series X. The worlds are diverse, and the giant monsters are a sight to behold. The voice acting is atrocious and the story forgettable, but the actual world and shooting are simply outstanding. Outriders is a perfect storm. A shiny new game to show off these new consoles. The fact that it launched day and date onto Game Pass has definitely helped with its success, as has the fact that gamers are hungry for new experiences. I will likely be playing a bunch of Outriders in 2021, and that speaks volumes to its longevity. I hope the team continues to expand on the title as we move through the year, as I look forward to coming back to it for quite some time.
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  2. AusGamers
    Apr 26, 2021
    45
    All in all, Outriders falls short of Anthem in the launch-period stability stakes. Having to combat the game to be able to combat enemies and then combat the game to be able to combat enemies and then combat the… well, it’s just not worth it.
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  3. Telegraph
    Apr 26, 2021
    80
    It is a game that is interested in one thing and one thing only: turning enemies into bloody smears and hopefully finding some new shoes. And, thankfully, it is very good at it. If you are one of those people-who-like-this-kind-of thing, of course.
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