The Outfit

Hello Gamers

Today’s a bit different.

Today I am wandering into the realm of the X Box, as I am currently a bit dry as far as content goes for my pc gaming blogs. But don’t fear my gaming adventure tales never end. No, no, today we talk about The Outfit. This was a great game my friend Austin and I played as kids in his basement. The Outfit is a WWII third person shooter that works very well and is quite simple to learn. This is the first time I realized that I had a talent for sniping at very large distances.

One map in particular, as Austin and I took our five man groups up a hill, we had to take cover before we started climbing the hill, actually. But I remember ducking behind some barrels, and waiting to see from good real life mile bad guys heads poking up. Without hesitation, without thinking, I knew when they would stand up (they weren’t hard to predict, it seemed like whenever then were about to get up, their head would shuffle a bit to one side, then the other, then they would get up, as if they were looking to see if the coast was clear from the others.

We ended up taking the hill quickly, me giving sniper support while Austin rushed the hill taking out their heavier gun placements. We were a good team. The game had three characters, a sniper with choice of Molotov cocktails that would light the area it broke at for several seconds, perhaps a half a minute. Another character, often Austins’ favorite, a rocket launcher with a command pistol and standard grenades. The third, the one neither of us liked was one with a semi auto machine gun with some other gun. This character wasn’t good because he couldn’t provide much other than mowing down lots of enemies, which we never encountered anyway.

We realized soon in that mixed with my strategic location on the map and Austins’ heavy artillery we could overcome hordes of enemies and tanks.

The game had this one great “cheat”, I say “cheat” because it only seemed like it at first. We were kicking lots of butt on this one tank mission that involved calling in air strikes to destroy this tank, there was no other way the mission would let us beat it, and Austin and I thought that we accidentally hit a cheat because our money read “9999” and no further because that’s as high as the meter went. I got a little trigger happy with the air strike function, which I will tell you were not inexpensive. I think I got about ten in and then the money counter dropped like a bag of rocks. We figured out that it didn’t stop at “9999”, only that it said it did.

We nearly beat the game together, I think we gave it up eventually though; we were getting bored of it and called it good. I would seriously recommend it for anyone who likes games about war, shooting games, or if you just are getting into gaming and don’t really know what your style is. Thanks for reading.

Resistance is Futile

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