The Outforce

by Strategy First

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000056MJY
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: January 11, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,417 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

The Outforce is a real-time strategy game set in the depths of space. There are three races from which to choose, and more than 120 different units available, including tow ships, phasing units, and self-destructing units. The 3-D environment features a free-floating camera with a variable zoom field. The game's artificial intelligence has a genetic learning algorithm, and the physics system includes pressure waves, elastic collisions, gravity, and push-and-pull force. Up to eight players can battle it out over the Internet or on a LAN.

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not too pleased..., February 16, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: The Outforce (CD-ROM)

I can agree that the game looks a bit fun at a first glance and the graphics are nice but it is still lacking. It is supposed to be a 3d space game but you can still only move your units in 2d. Hilarious to use asteroids and build walls with them so the enemy can't get at you. Sorry, not good at all

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not much fun at all, March 14, 2001

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Electric Monk (Woodland Hills, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Outforce (CD-ROM)

The Outforce is a very basic real-time strategy game and quickly grows tiresome. The AI is brain-dead, the pathfinding frustratingly atrocious, and there is no difference between the three races. Add in oddball features such as the ability to build fences (fences!) around your base to keep enemy ships at bay and you wind up with a thoroughly forgettable game.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Would You Like Some Sauce With Your Cheese?......, June 14, 2001

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"ufcupc" (Misawa, AP United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Outforce (CD-ROM)

If I had to use any word to describe this game: "Cheese", and lots of it. Graphics are okay. I don't understand "walls and fences" IN SPACE, that part doesn't make sense; especially in a supposedly "3D" environment. Next, this game is NOT "3D", it's "2D"E having a couple of zoom and tilt options, but that is it. Homeworlds Cataclysm, a great game, now that is "3D"! OutForce...Eis a "Poor-mans" version of Warcraft. Other than that, the picture on the box was pretty neat... Talk to ya, BigDaddy