The Outer Worlds is Obsidian Entertainment?s first new game since their acquisition by Microsoft in November 2018. With just under three months to go until its late October launch date, we were invited to spend a few hours in sunny Santa Monica to get some hands-on time with the game.
Ideal Hardware Conditions
First, a caveat: we were playing on some seriously beefy PC hardware. An Intel Core i9 processor was paired with 32 GB of RAM, for starters. The game was installed on a crazy-fast SSD, likely some NVMe M.2 behemoth that even the PS5 won?t be using. Meanwhile, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 ensured things ran buttery-smooth, even while recording 1440p footage. So any amazing graphics or performance seen in gameplay footage around the ?net is a best-case scenario, through and through. There is no telling how well The Outer Worlds will be optimized for the stock PS4 or PS4 Pro, so we will refrain from commenting on those aspects of the game other than to say that if you like a more colorful palette mixed with your first-person loot shooter RPG, then you will find plenty to like here.
PB = PB || {};
PB.gptStandAlone = PB.gptStandAlone || {};
PB.gptAutoRefresh = PB.gptAutoRefresh || {'gptAds':[], 'gptStandAlone':[]};
admiralCookie = readAdmiralCookie();

googletag.cmd.push(function() {
var standAloneSizeMapping = googletag.sizeMapping().addSize([0, 0], []).addSize([750, 0], [[300, 250]]).addSize([980, 0], [[300, 250]]).build...