Windows

Outcast

Trivia

In the German gaming magazine GameStar (issue 03/2000) Outcast received a special award for the "Best Sound in 1999".

A lengthy gameplay demonstration of Outcast was shown on the main projection screen at the Belgian demo party Wired 1998, nearly a year before Outcast's official release.

The crystalline object used to save your game is called a "Gaamsav." Carefully listening to that name makes its use more than apparent.

In the German release of the game, Manfred Lehmann is doing the voice acting for the main character. Like in the French version this is the dubbing voice for Bruce Willis.

Outcast has been awarded GameSpot's Adventure Game of the Year award in 1999.

In the french version, the actor doing the main character's voice is the same as the voice behind Bruce Willis in movies which are dubbed in french.

On November 1999, Appeal announced a sequel: Outcast 2 - The lost paradise, a PS2 game with a PC release to follow. Unfortunately, Appeal declared its bankruptcy on August the 12th of 2002 and the game was canceled. A major part of the team moved to a new studio and a petition was started to persuade Infogrames to allow Elsewhere Entertainment to use the Outcast license, but with no result so far.

Contributed by Sciere (119238) on Nov 12, 2003.

The game has some interesting cross-overs with Russian language and culture.

Apart from the soundtrack being played by Moscow Symphony Orchectra, there are the following things I noticed: - The word Okriana, which I believe is a name of a region in the game (don't know exactly, as I only played the demo) is an anagram of Russian word 'okraina', which means 'the outskirts'.

- The soldiers, after spotting the hero, start to shout some words which resemble Russian 'Vot on!', which translate 'There he is!' - quite appropriate.

- The culture the locals grow is called 'riss', which closely resembles Russian word 'ris' (meaning, not surprisingly, 'rice').

I believe there are more, and I am very interested how did they get there.

If you listen closely, you'll recognize the main notes of "Luke's Theme" from the Star Wars soundtrack being played by some of the flute players in Okriana, particularly those west and east of the palace. Fitting, considering the city is in the desert.

A Dreamcast version was planned by Infogrames which would feature a brand new, fully polygonal engine to replace the original one. However, thanks in no small part to Outcast's small sales and the self-destruction of the Dreamcast console, on sept. 22, 2000 Infogrames announced the cancellation of the port's development. This is sad indeed since Infogrames had hinted that a 3D acceleration patch for the PC version would be available thanks to the Dreamcast port (since the console uses DirectX as it's core API for 3D acceleration).

There's a special dvd edition of the game which features remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 surround music, a making of video, the complete remastered soundtrack on separate tracks, and a series of outakes as well as several language options and additional bonuses like wallpapers, etc.

Appeal has created 15 hilarious movie outtakes for Outcast. They can be downloaded as mpg-files from the official website, http://www.outcast-game.com Be warned, however: You should have played Outcast to understand the puns.