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The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition is the ultimate way to play the award-winning RPG from Obsidian Entertainment and Private Division. Including the base game and all DLC, this remastered masterpiece is the absolute best version of The Outer Worlds.
Details
- Released
- March 6, 2023
- Developer
- Obsidian Entertainment
- Genres
- Shooter · Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
- Publisher
- Private Division
- Platforms
- PC · PS5 · Xbox Series X|S
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The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
If you’re one of the many gamers who hasn’t played The Outer Worlds before, then now is the time. Given that I’ve scored the base game and its DLCs highly in the past, coupled with the gameplay improvements and a reasonable 60-dollar price point makes, this is the best way to experience all this game has to offer.
Outer Worlds is an action RPG made by Obsidian that has a good reputation for making detailed and rich role-playing games. Their latest AAA game was Outer
Though savagely undercut by performance issues, The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice still remains a stellar RPG and a muscular content offering despite its technical problems. Nonetheless, the unstable framerate coupled with frame pacing issues results in the tarnishing of the definitive version of The Outer Worlds that really should have been so much polished than it is here.
Three-and-a-bit years on, The Outer Worlds still holds up as a fine example of RPG excellence, with choices that actually carry proper weight. On Xbox Series X|S, the Spacer’s Choice Edition looks great, although you can’t help but be left with a nagging feeling that it could be slightly more polished.
While maybe not essential if you've already seen everything there is to see in the game, The Spacer's Choice Edition of The Outer Worlds is a worthy upgrade for players jumping in for the first time or wanting to explore new choices and outcomes in a second or third playthrough. It's a bit of a shaky upgrade in parts, but the overall package is decent value and the core game is still bloody excellent.
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition gives opportunity to further grow the bottom-line. A light investment on the release means it's still a title with plenty of room for improvement.
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition wishes to be the definitive edition of this planet-trotting RPG, but a buffet of problems ranging from minuscule visual upgrades to performance issues make it anything but.
Outer Worlds has moved to the next generation, but does it get lost in the cosmos?
However, The Outer Worlds very much features a particular playstyle that might not be unique enough to some gamers. Still, fans of the genre and the Fallout franchise -- or really any gamer who wants to just go explore the wilds and shoot stuff -- will find The Outer Worlds makes for a solid addition to the Switch's library.