![]() ![]() ![]() Trending Deal: Reclaiming an outcasted legacy Unlike the TimeSplitters devs at Free Radical Entertainment - who are being shut down by Embracer Group this month - the renewed version of Appeal Studios will be able to share their vision for a modern sequel next March with Outcast: A New Beginning. Unfortunately, an early 2000s attempt at getting a sequel never materialized due to publisher Infogrames’ struggles.Įmbracer Group bought the Outcast IP in 2019, so subsidiary THQ Nordic helped reform developer Appeal Studios with many of the original developers and tasked them with making a follow-up. Of course, it feels dated nowadays (as seen with the lukewarm reception to its 2017 remake), but the ambition of the original Outcast certainly sets a high bar for any sequel to meets. ![]() It was an ambitious sci-fi title with dense lore, an orchestral soundtrack, and an open world before most of those features were common aspects of big-budget games. The original Outcast was way ahead of its time when it launched in 1999. ![]()
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