Outriders Day One Edition with Patch Set (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) (PS4)

Outriders is indeed an enjoyable experience, and fun in a lot of place. The story is decent, although I felt it slightly jumped about a bit and left certain parts unresolved, although these do get "resolved" later in the free expansion New Horizon. Although you do need to be online to play the game, but you can play the game solo or in a team with two other people. I fortunately only got the game after they fixed the issues with their servers and matchmaking etc, so I haven't ran into these problems by an occasionally hiccup (which is to be expected with online games). There are some issues with the game, particularly with the combat, which I'll list below. Overall I did really enjoy this game despite the problems, and have managed to get the platinum trophy for it (although it is tedious grinding). The rest of the review is the main issues I have with the game, so feel free to stop now if you don't want to read a long review.But first thing anyone will notice is there is loading screens whenever you enter a new area, they're only really becomes a bother if you're trying to jump between areas to finish off side missions. The waypoint navigation also isn't the best, as it doesn't always update your map. You have to actually go into the menus to see the large map to sometimes find where you need to go, this is often for side missions. Overall, these two things are a big issue for me, but they may be frustrating for some.Speaking of combat, it is also frustrating at times, especially if you're working up the World Tier difficulties, and not always difficult in a good way. Although still difficult, human enemies for most part are fine and simpler to deal with, the problem lies when in combat with the alien wildlife. You will often find the wildlife tend to only attack you (and your team) in groups, and for most of the game is fine unless you're on higher World Tiers. This is because you will soon find yourself running out of ammo while getting attacked by both small and large creatures (as well as sometimes an elite enemy), and to make it worse, ammo is often scarce in areas where you'll find alien creatures (although they do drop ammo themselves, but rarely enough). The only way to combat this to die and restart at the checkpoint, which refills your ammo for you. Where compared to areas with human enemies, you will always find ammo somewhere. Was this done for immersion? Possibly, I don't know. Does that make it great when you're only down to your pistol and you've travelled a large portion of the map without finding much ammo at all? No. Outriders is over the shoulder, cover shooter, think Gears of War or Mass Effect type of combat, and you'll know dodging isn't the greatest in these kind of games when dealing with certain enemies that prefer to just charge at you with melee attacks. One thing I noticed is enemies become tougher when playing in co-op compared to solo, so combat affects co-op too. I only played with a friend, so cannot comment on if a full team of 3 works better between than just two of you; but I imagine the difficulty gets ramped up more for 3 players.Now for the New Horizon expansion, I will avoid spoilers as this happens after the main game. It does address the combat issues I pointed out with ammo, so even on a higher difficulty, when dealing with swarms of creatures you won't be at such a disadvantage. New Horizon gives you expeditions, missions in short map areas where you take on enemies and reach the objective. The only downside is the objective is the same for each expedition, there's hardly any variety or any decent narrative to follow. And instead of the World Tiers from the main game, you'll get Challenge Tiers. New Horizon also manages to "resolve" several plot points from the main game, by simply having the narrative done through your character being contacted via radio during gameplay and completing combat zones. Challenge Tiers make the combat even more harder than before, making enemies even harder. Although it fixed the ammo problem with combat, the game still likes to throw hordes of creatures at you, often with up to 3/4 elite creature enemies at once. It is still ridiculously difficult than compared with dealing with humans, although you can still be faced with elite type enemies, humans are still more simpler to deal with. The new resource currency also encourages a lot of grinding, as you'll need them to pay for certain expeditions, as well as Tiers and upgrading your equipment. And the amount of resources you get depend on your Challenge Tier. In short, it's great to have new content, but New Horizon does feel slightly like a "tacked on multiplayer mode", as I feel you can only really play it with other people, unless you don't mind grinding the same missions repeatedly.

I bought this game because I played Destiny 1 and 2 but couldn't get into it. This game on th other hand is great both visually and from a game play stand point. I haven't played online so I cannot comment on that. My only 2 negatives are the initial loading time and that my second order of it turned out to be a playstation 5 version when it arrived. I don't own a playstation 5 and I ordered the playstation 4 version twice. Read the orders correctly Amazon FFS.

This is not a bad game if all you are interested in is playing through the story and pottering around doing low level stuff. Of course the story isn't really what this game is about, it's more about the end game, and unfortunately at higher level endgame the PS4 really struggles. It can't cope with more than one command at a time, and there is significant lag between the execution of one action and even the acceptance of the next command, to the point that you are constantly hammering buttons trying to deploy skills. (On PC this isn't a problem) So if you are looking for the endgame challenge I wouldn't bother, at least not on PS4

Super, wicked, awesome and bad as!And that's about the PS4 version of which I bought purposely so as to get the upgraded PS5 version too 🤙🏻This game is so much fun, has a lot of replay value as well and the graphics and it's beautiful, vibrant colours are sublime.5* 🕹️

Still not fixed after the patches the only thing they seem to do is nerf the enjoyment of what little fun the game has. please just buy a different game any game would be better than this mess I’ve given up playing it