Outcast (video game)
Outcast is a play of action-ventures left in 1999 and published by Infogrames and developed by Appeal Software.
At the time where it left, this play was revolutionist, as well by his graphic, musical capacities as narrative. He was even issued better play of adventure of the year by very many specialized magazines but did not receive the reception discounted near the public.
Technology Voxel was used for the decorations and the characters, which made it possible the set of adapt to technical capabilities of each computer, while offering a graphics more precise than with a polygonal engine, but with the detriment of the posted resolution, 512x384 being the maximum choice. It also had the engine of artificial intelligence GAIA which gives to the characters play a human behavior. Thus, each character of the play, energy of the salesman in the market with the peasant collecting his rice to the priest of the village, carries out tasks and interacts with the other characters according to his own trade, of his own identity and his own capacity to be reacted to the events. If you are made locate by a soldier isolated, according to the context, rather than to attack you, it will seek reinforcements.
To add an environment particular to the play, the music was composed by Lennie Moore and was played by the Symphony orchestra of Moscow.
The play claimed at the time a machine equipped with an enough powerful processor to turn correctly, 500 MHz were largely advised. This importance of the processor found its source in the fact that no graphics card dealt with the material Accélération engine Voxel, all was calculated on the main frame by using to the maximum one of its components, MX, which implied in fact an important extra work for the processor if one wished to make function the play in 512x384 (the maximum resolution permitted by the play).
History
In 1999, the professor William Kauffman publishes her work concerning the parallel worlds. According to him, it would be possible to travel towards other worlds thanks to the “cords to tunnel effect” but as it does not have energy necessary for that, he cannot apply its theory…In April 2001, it is put in contact by the Pentagon with the scientist Anthony Xue who works on the energy produced by the reactions matter-antimatter. 6 years, later, at the end of many hours of labor, the 2 men manage to concretize their hope.
The project is named SideStep . The June 5th 2007, a probe is sent in a parallel world. But at the end of a few minutes, it is damaged by one entitée intelligent. That have for consequence to create a Black hole on Earth of which the expansion threatens whole humanity seriously.
It is there that Cutter Slade (Patrick Poivey in VF), old a SEAL and Marion Wolfe , a exobiologist of reputation are contacted to be sent in this parallel world with Anthony Xue and William Kauffman to recover the probe and thus to save planet.
The June 6th 2007, the four heroes are sent in the parallel world. Unfortunately, a technical error occurs during the transfer and Cutter is found lengthened in a bed in Ranzaar where everyone seems to know it and calls it Ulukaï. It is announced to him that it is the new saver and that it must put a term at the dictatorship of Fae Rhan. If he wants to recover the probe, he must help Talans (inhabitants of this planet) to find the 5 Mons, which according to the legend, will make it possible to reverse the mode of the tyrant.
Places
The parallel planet is called Adelpha and Cutter evolves/moves in 6 worlds of the northern hemisphere. Its morphology and its ecosystem are rather similar to those of our planet. To travel, one makes use of Daokas, kinds of direct bridges between the worlds.-
Ranzaar : The world of the permanent winter. It is there that the adventure starts. It is a little inhabited world where some rebels with the mode are recluse.
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Shamazaar : The world of the temples. It is an area of dedicated to the culture of Riss which is used to feed all planet almost. One will find there 4 temples dedicated to the 4 essential gasolines: air, fire, ground and water.
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Talanzaar : The world of the desert. It contains the only big city of Adeplha: Okriana, turntable commercial of planet. One finds there all kinds of tradesmen as well as a very great number of soldiers. Previously, Talanzaar was a green and prosperous area. But since Fae Rhan arrived and made build its palate in the center of the city, the desert very invaded.
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Motazaar : The world of the mountains. It that one is extracted there there hélidium, main resource energy of Talans
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Okasankaar : The world of the marshes. One finds there the small town coastal of Cyana where one fishes fish consumed by all Talans. It is told that a terrible monster lives on one of the islands not far from the city. It is there too that one finds the famous prison
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Okaar : The old world. Almost uninhabited and entirely covered with forest, it shelters primitive people of Talans. One tells many legends on this world far from known
See too
Related articles
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Voxel : One returned by voxel is used to draw the landscapes in Outcast
External bonds
- Official site
- Outcastii.net which contains a loader (a software of launching) making it possible to launch Outcast in 640*480.
- Outcast Paradise
- Open Outcast, the Open Source remake, high-definition, in OpenGL.