• Publisher: THQ
  • Release Date: Mar 13, 2006
Metascore

Mixed or average reviews - based on 52 Critics What's this?

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 43 Ratings

  • Summary: THQ and Relic Entertainment take explosive World War II combat to the next generation in an all-new 3rd Person Action Game. Combining intense squad-based combat with the freedom of total destruction, The Outfit takes players behind enemy lines, battling the Nazi War Machine through a variety of combat missions. Choose from three playable squad leaders - each with their own skills and abilities, as you lead a squad of battle-forged soldiers on missions ranging from reconnaissance and rescue to search and destroy. With interactive and fully destructible environments, you have the freedom to shoot, blow up or demolish anything in your path. As you complete mission objectives, you'll gain Field Units (FUs), a currency that can be used to order "Destruction on Demand" - air-dropped into the action at any time. With "Destruction On Demand" (D.O.D.) you can order in everything from tanks, jeeps, half-tracks and other combat vehicles to machinegun nests and anti-tank emplacements, or call in for squad reinforcements, air-strikes or artillery strikes. Experience the cinematic intensity of WWII combat through 12 epic Single-player missions or go online for a variety of Multiplayer modes, including Co-Op and Versus. [THQ] Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 52
  2. Negative: 0 out of 52
  1. 100
    Wrapped up with gorgeous presentation all round, with sumptuous 360 visuals and booming, atmospheric sound and music, the gameplay never fails to be anything less than engaging and enjoyable, both throughout the single player campaign and in the fantastic and fully online multiplayer modes.
  2. The Outfit does not aspire in the slightest to reflect the sights and sounds of real-life combat in dubya-dubya-two. It aspires to be one thing and one thing only: fun. [Apr 2006, p.82]
  3. Relic and THQ are actually onto something here. The Outfit is not a bad game really, it's just not on the level of "next-generation".
  4. The concept of the game represents creative thinking the industry desperately needs. In execution, however, The Outfit falls short in delivering a gaming experience gamers will keep coming back to. War fans need only rent it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 17
  2. Negative: 3 out of 17
  1. AdamD.
    10
    For only $20 new and $17.99 used, you can torch Nazis, drive cool vehicles, and enjoy a top notch action strategy game. The most important thing about any game is the "Fun" factor. This game is incredibly fun!!! Expand
  2. While there are a lot of games like it, this game will satisfy. You are limited to 3 characters to use during levels or matches, but it has some cool weapons and many fun gameplay modes. Expand
  3. FPSMaster
    7
    Decent game with RTS elements make it feel like a cross between Mercenaries, Freedom Fighters, Command and Conquer and Battlefield which is what makes us finally have an original game that uses a little from other games and makes them its own. Graphics could have easily been done on Xbox with all the texture swapping, very limited detail and pop-up, other than maybe slower framerates. Destruction is decent, but looks a little hokey and isn't even as destructive as year old games like Mercenaries. Controls are a little clunky, and they make you feel as if the collision detection in the game is really about PS1 in depth so you get stuck on flat ground a lot. Vehicles are terrible to control and get stuck on everything, but they are the main part of the game so you just have to deal with them. Going on foot will usually result in you dying and respawning over and over, but is essential to setting up gun emplacements and such. Sound is pretty good, as it sounds and feels like a real warzone probably would. Overall a decent game with plenty of depth in the options for what you want to use when you want to use it, but the points scale seems odd so that if you take over many checkpoints you may still end the game with hardly any points and never have enough to buy the really powerful weapons you need to win each match. And also, some people seem to be able to use way more powerful weapons than you just after the beginning of the game which makes me wonder has someoe already found a way to boost their starting points to be higher than yours.. Expand
  4. KevinP.
    2
    Aiming is shoddy and gameplay is, frankly, derivative. It's nice to see some destructible environments, but if this is supposed to be a 'next-gen' game on a 'next-gen' system, where is the innovation? Third-person viewpoint is not suited for fast and furious multiplayer. Teammate AI is maddening, as they frequently stand right in front of your aim...plus, there's a waiting period after giving an order that seems way too long. The Outfit is another example of a game that was promoted as something exciting but ended up much less. Rent it before you buy! Expand

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