Outcast

Posted by Zack Howe.
First posted on 30 November 1999. Last updated on 08 August 2009.
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There are 4 recognized subgenres of adventure games—graphic adventure, puzzle adventure, horror adventure, and action adventure. Each subgenre offers a different mix of gameplay and challenges to the players. Despite this diversity, there has been a steady decline in the number of adventure titles being published. This situation is worsened by the over saturation of other genre games in the…

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Excellent

One of the best ones out there. I miss a sequel, in fact until Oblivion i didnt reach to see anythin that was as close in AI and Freedom :(

Spain By Joaquim Navarro Vaquero • On 23 January 2007 • From Reus, Spain

Excellent

johnny,

I had similar problems.
first thing to do is, get the Outcast patch 3, it is the only patch that is almost 12 MB size.
IIRC, you can install the game via this patch,
BUT, the install routine also seems to have some time measurement stuff in it to check if your PC is fast enough, which overflows on modern fast machines and the game gets deinstalled after installing automatically, because of this error.
TRICK: see further below.
in Windows 2000 SP4 it installed and ran well without any tricks on a AMD DURON 700 though,
but on other systems/ faster machines problems have been reported.
TRICK: use a slow-down program WHILE INSTALLING (via the 12 MB patch installing feature).
I used, years ago, I think a demo version of CPU Kill or something, took away lots of CPU power before/during the installation of Outcast via 12 MB patch, then deactivated it. and the game ran fine on the machine in Win98 back then.
btw. you NEED to have the automatical CD detection frature turned on in your windows, to play outcast, IIRC.
hope that helps.

Germany By steve • On 02 January 2007 • From germany

Excellent

i have the 7th guest cd's and i have windows XP, when i put the game in the CD-ROM drive, it won't install. will it only play on windows 95? or...can I play it on my computer? please let me know.
thank you,
johnny.

United States By johnny • On 11 December 2006 • From los angelos,california

Excellent

Hi, I have problems playing this game. I have Windows XP.
When I run the game, it says "bad audio tracks, continue?" If I continue, I won't hear the music in the game. I tried to remove that with some CPU grabber, but it didnt work. Please help.

Finland By Veke • On 10 December 2006 • From keketi

Excellent

well, I just started to play Dreamfall on my Xbox and first thing that came to my mind when I started playing was "God...about 6 years ago Ive played such an amazing adventure game....what was its name...."

and then I recalled...OUTCAST. PERFECT GAME! Its not often that I finish games....especially adventure games...I mean I play A LOT! buy rarely finish any game (maybe except fps and rts games but they have to be really good like HL or Fear or Company of Heroes for example). But Outcast! Man this game is good. And the sound! The story....everything is great about this game. And really hope there will be a remake some day so I can relive the adventure again.

Poland By Karol • On 30 October 2006 • From Poland

Excellent

Hello, i used to play this game when it 1st arrived but then abandoned it and started playing again from the back save file till i played the last time, i've completed all the objectives, on the 4 worls, talanzaar,okaasankaar, okaar, shamazaar, motozaar and ranzaar, i have recovered the 4th mon from okaar, after that iwent to oksanakaar to help jan, after kroax difeated, im supposed to get another transmition, which still i didnt get, what should i do? what exactly should be done b4 the ranzaar camp is raided and 5th mon objective is triggered ? plz help

Netherlands By Abrar • On 17 April 2006 • From Hyderabad, Pakistan

Excellent

The only Sci-Fi open-ended PC action/adventure/rpg game that compares with the fantasy ones, like Morrowind and Baldurs Gate, etc in terms of immersive, story-telling, characterization of an alien world, art design, world design, music, speech and gameplay.

I would also say this game can be played in god mode so you can breeze through the fighting, or cheats are available to make your guns and bullets as strong as you need to be "competitive" in the fighting parts for adventure gamers who are no good at action/twitch/fighting. Despite getting around the fighting with the above, the adventure part of the game is still good enough to be played and enjoyed enormously. It is more adventure then action anyway, but because of brilliant AI the fighting is quite hard. There are plenty of reviews out there and the game, in general, seems to have garnered an average score of about 85%. So if you are a point and click adventurer who has avoided this game because it is an action adventure, do yourself a favour. Buy this game, use the cheats and have yourself one of the best pure adventure games ever released.

Great Britain (UK) By John J. • On 16 April 2006 • From London, England

Hello,

my name is Monica from Sweden.
I have the pc game "Outcast" and wonder if you could help me with two problems?

1. I'll must replace the power keys correctly in the 3 temples (in Shamazaar)
but the problem is that I can't understand the Sankra Tablet. So I can't replace the keys correctly.
Do you know how?


2. I stopped the waterfall in Okaar (the forest world) and got the wood key.
Now I'll must find one more wood key to get the mon. Where can I find the key?


I would be grateful for your help. Thank you!

Greetings,
Monica

By Monica • On 05 December 2002 • From Sweden

I'm looking for game like Outcast..If anyone know somthing that looks like it, feels like it! i would be so so greatful!!!

By Dima Motel • On 07 November 2002 • From Israel