Scourge: Outbreak

Pretty much just bootleg mass effect 2 without the visual novel shit, it's good.

5/10

***Either skip or be warned that this games flashback sequences although brief do contain a series of flashing lights through all of them and are quite intense***

Its hard to recommend playing this game, if you want a half decent shooter to play with a bunch of friends for a few hours its fine.

I played singleplayer initially on nightmare mode but chapter 2 gets pointlessly difficult and nonstop enemies
Enemies are bullet spongey even on easy
Checkpoints are space a bit to far apart

You cant skip the startup logo's like you can in a lot of games but you can skip all in game dialogue, which gets doubly annoying as the sound for startup is at 12.

Camera gets a bit wonky sometimes when jumping to avoid a grenade or bullets, as well as multiple buttons to get into cover or that get you into cover.

Overall its just eh, probably good with mates.

This game was really cool at first but the biggest gripe I have is that every enemy - whether trash mobs or boss monsters - is an absolute bullet sponge. I ran out of ammo constantly. You can head shot an enemy soldier probably five or six times before they go down. It's too bad because otherwise this game would be pretty fun - especially on a steam sale. I wanted to like this and I played a decent session of it but I got really tired of essentially reloading my gun after every kill. It seemed like enemies almost literally required an entire clip of your ammo just to off them. That got boring pretty quick.

Well this is a basic third person shooter from an old era, if you just like playing through bland games that function okay this is alright for that, especially if its on a dirt cheap sale, surprisingly it supports ultrawide, and you can play around with cfg files a lot, should be sorted for a better base experience.

Well, I am usually pretty lenient towards fun but mediocre games. But this one is not just mediocre it is bad. I thought it look and play decent at first but no; it is one of the worst TPS I have ever played.

The one thing I fucking hate in a game is unlimited spawning enemies without a spawner and this games is full of it. And it is made especially worse by the very limited ammo and the 2 guns limit with the ammo different for each guns.

To end this endless waves of enemies, you "just" have to reach the next waypoint that is usually behind said enemies. When enemies keep coming and coming, after a while, it gets so tedious that you just start to run through the wave and try to reach the waypoint. So fun.... :S

Without that, I might have tried to go through the whole game just to laugh at the story or some of the voice acting but it is just too bad for me to even do that.

I haven't tried the multiplayer, as I don't want to force any of my friends to play this shite, so I can't comment on it.

I can’t believe I waste money on that.

9 years ago I bought (Scourge Project EP. 1&2) and completed it, tonight I see in my Library (Scourge OutBreak)A relaunch of the original, I'm 5 almost 6 years late trying the new version.
I liked it in 2010 now its 2019 so I d/l , play and remember how much I liked this game,Its a nice looking game too.
I only played this in single player mode, Now I am replaying and checking out the new version.

No its not AAA but its simple Sci-Fi action shooter with good action and graphics you get 3 companions who will heal your ass if your wounded ha! , I like how they snuck out the new version (for Free) while I wasn't looking.

I remember back when The Sourge Project ep1 & 2 were out couple years ago and honestly, it was simple cover shooter with a focus on multiplayer.

While the original game was pretty buggy, this version attempted to revamp the game while essentially following the same campaign, while a bit balanced. It's been a long time and the game's online players are pretty much all gone and moved on, but the campaign is worth trying out if the genre is your kind of thing and like to play different characters with different powers.

The price for the game has dropped considerably, so it's worth giving it a go.

Where to begin? I saw this on the Jimquisition, and thought, Hold on now, that's pretty cool! I bought the game myself, (The Ambrosia edition) and started it up. First let me say the Easy mode was alright, definitely wasn't easy with the Team AI forgetting to revive me, though granted for the life of me I could not revive them, even smashing the E key. Recommend an Xbox 360 Controller.
Granted I needed to tinker the game a bit to simply get through the easy mode (Cause I like playing for story and setting) but rest assured it is still a challenging enemy force, and the power conduit towers have triple health I bloody swear.
I disagree with Jim Sterling on that note, this game was actually very enjoyable, I liked the choose your character and the setting was vibrant. Though if you happen to keep the pistol (And it comes in handy) you'll need it cause jimmy-four legs is immune to rocket fire and I'm pretty sure only half the shotgun blast affects him.
I played as Shade, though granted as some will note the game does feel like it lacks length and really story depth, now I might play EP 1 and 2 to see more. But Nogari felt more like a backdrop than an acting faction, which ultimately undermines it.
Long story short I recommend it, its fun with it's enviroments, it's NOT a AAA title, and if they make a sequel I will be interested. But the drawback is the villain feels rushed and the story is anything but long which honestly robs it of being good.
PS. Best hacking minigame EVER.

tl;dr :
Lots of potential and care, executed with flaws in all areas that add up too high. Try it out only at a sale price.

Long version:
Sourge Outbreak is a 3rd person cover based shooter, with interesting visual designs and characters that attempts to tell a multi-perspective story, but has gameplay flaws that become too hard to ignore as the game goes on.

The team AI is passable, but can´t be relied upon to do the job for you, enemy AI is very simple but has fair aim and reasonable aggression.

Said enemies however are bullett sponges, of which the game throws more and tougher ones at you, until you are overrun by armored mooks that do not care about your popgun weapons. This games weapons are weak, feel weak and enemies are too tough even if the weapons were stronger. Headshots become mandatory, your best bet becomes the sniper rifle which can remove a helmet with one shot and score the kill with the next. Anything else becomes inneffective. At some point in the game you encounter melee-based aliens, that can oneshot you with an attack leap in a game that is not made for melee combat.

The controls are clunky in general, and if you can actually shoot out of cover is unpedictable. This leads to a ton of frustrating deaths were you are being shot in cover, can´t shoot back and die as you try to get away from the magnetic cover.

The story starts interesting, then plummets down to one of these moments where one intelligent question would prevent an entire drama, only to end unfinished in a very sudden bossfight.

The freshest thing the game has to offer is an attack or shield power, with the shield being useful and the attack power becoming irrelevant due to bullett sponges. An XP system rewards action in certain categories with useful perks, which feels rewarding.

Can´t say anything about the multiplayer, since there where no matches to be found. Botmatches however gave me the impression of very small matches with an unpredictable damage system.

All in all I really can´t recommend this at full price, which is a shame because I believe this is not a cash grab. The devs put work and effort into their game, but in the end all the flaws start adding up too high and are too annoying to ignore.
I hope lessons are learned from this, because its a damn shame if caring people are doomed by lack of experience.
More luck in the future.

This is a pretty good Third Person Shooter with full story co-op and AI teammates that are often more effective than human players.

It plays a lot like Gears of War crossed with Mass Effect Multiplayer and features a very good drop in drop out coop mode which has plenty of checkpoints to minimize frustration. A bit lacking in polish but very advanced and ambitious for an indie game. Feels like a steal considering the price.

A couple of weak points are the "magic" system which doesn't really seem to work though you can get through the game without using it and the fact that the ammo crates aren't universal so you will constantly find yourself dropping weapons so that you can pick up one which is compatible with the local ammunition boxes. This was probably added for realism but it is annoying and doesn't add anything good to the game.

Another weak point is the fact that the game directs you to use grenades on the first armored helicopter but later in the game, you face a second armored helicopter which has exactly the same design but is impervious to grenades (you can only kill this one by going upstairs and grabbing the special heavy weapon which will enable you to shoot it down though the game doesn't tell you this and even gives you a box of useless grenades as if trying to trick you into rage-quitting.)

Other than that though, it is mostly a good game. Be warned however, the ending is a cliffhanger. This game was obviously intended to have a sequel which was never made. I hope they make a sequel someday but I wouldn't bet money on it.

This is gonna be a long review I think. I only played this game for a little under two hours and I know I should give it more time but I honestly can't. When I got two copies I thought it just be a fun game for me to play with my friend since we were having some trouble finding co-op games to play. Our options were pretty limited because I have a computer built for gaming and she has a laptop that can handle plenty of games but not a lot of new big name titles or older ones for that matter. I found the game to be functional if a little dry and overdone. I know a lot of people don't like the third-person covered based shooting concept that's gotten into a a lot of games these days. I honestly don't have that much of a problem with it because most games that do it find at least one mechanic that makes a little unique. This game didn't really find that unique point, and although I'm not sure what they could have done, it still makes the gameplay bland. Still in the time we played I was having fun. There's always a lot of baddies to shoot and that's always fun. But the powers each character has aren't that interesting and are at times kind of hard to use, at least in my experience. I can appreciate that they tried to make the story aspect compelling and it wasn't too bad for a game like this. It was simple, I didn't have any trouble following it, and it wasn't that silly or ridiculous. Still, pretty dry though. What killed the game for me is the voice acting. It is absolutely horrible. Combine that with the fact that the personality and backstory they tried to add to each character was never seen in gameplay that well and confined to a text box, it was impossible to relate to them or find them the slightest bit appealing. In terms of graphics, I also found it boring. The enviornments are akin to that of many 4 player co-op games I've played like Borderlands 1 & 2 and the character design is just...awful. The four leads are some of the ugliest main characters I've seen in gaming. That's my detailed analysis though. In my broad opinion if you're looking for something simple and shooty to pass some time with after exhausting all of your other co-op options, give it a go, but I can't recommend it as a co-op game that's engaging, can make each player feel like they can relate to their character, find an identity, and invest a lot of time into.

Dear God do not play this alone. I'd even say ever, but I did not play this in Co-Op, so there you go.

No, really, the reason I start out this review this way is to glaringly point out how not only incapable but absolutely TERRIBLE the teammate AI is in this game.

There are games, such as RE5, where the AI can be made to function well enough given some adjustments. (in that case, give Sheva a bolt action rifle and suddenly she's a bullet preserving aiming goddess...)
Scourge's teammate AI has absolutely NOTHING to redeem itself. I know I'm beating on a dead horse here, but allow me to point out from what aspects the AI is absolutely failing.

- The AI often fails to spot an enemy, even if it's blatantly attacking them. This becomes blatantly obvious when the small alien critters come into play. They'll crawl next to your teammates, take a moment before leaping with their overpowered attack (get hit twice by it = down) and take out your entire team. That skill of theirs has no CD but it's impossible to miss. And the AI... just glares at it. It takes one actual downing before they'll even know it's there!

In other words, the AI is blissfully unaware of it's surroundings until its almost too late to react on it. This changes when they are in cover. In fact, when in combat with other humanoids toting guns, your teammates are well capable if you babysit their positioning. Because if you don't... ohhh boy, they'll take cover in terrible angles (exposing themselves) and run from cover to cover just because their AI can't decide.

So a part of the game is against armed humanoids. You got your positioning worked out, you place the markers for your teammates...

- And the teammates don't always listen to your commands. You'll place a marker in one spot, and they'll take cover behind something you KNOW you did not intend for them to hide behind. Usually it's okay, cover is cover. But the game likes to throw enemies BEHIND you from time to time. So if your teammates don't listen to your planning, which would've accounted for this...

Well, then there's lots of reviving to be had, speaking of which...

- Your teammates are pretty incapable of being smart regarding Reviving. Let's bring the example of earlier back. A small alien critter has taken down a teammate. What would a smart AI decision be? Take down the critter, then help your teammate up.
What do your teammates do? They go straight to reviving. Even if the same enemy is still right besides the downed teammate. In fact, any teammates that are not busy reviving will not AID the teammate coming to the rescue. No, they'll just... Mind their own business. It's really quite dreadful.

The one thing the AI does 'sort of' okay, is using their shield skill in tandem with reviving. Sometimes they use it when needed, sometimes they don't (while they really should). Stonewall in particular has a shield he can keep up while reviving, so he's usually assigned as the designated reviver... or at least, so in my mind. There's no actual mechanic to assign him to this role, because...

- All you can do with your teammates is point at something for them. Luckily there's a way to pick WHO does what, but in general the only interaction you can do is keep your mouse on something, and context will decide WHAT they'll do. Unless it's a wall. A wall does not mean 'go there' for them. It just doesn't work. You need to point at the actual floor. Which makes pushing up a pair of stairs an absolute hoot.

So, let's summarize. Your teammates are terrible at shooting at enemies unless nobody is downed and they're not downed immediately themselves. They're pretty suicidal when it comes to reviving and there's little you can do to guide them other than force them at a spot, where they have free reign to decide what cover to use, and not the cover you meticulously picked as ideal for them. Got that? Alright, up to the next set of issues.

The Gameplay itself is... clumsy? I can't think of anything better. The guns that are not meant to be super strong, are super weak. The pistol is useless unless scoring headshots, and the Firefly (the Assault RIfle class, apparently) feels like a BB gun. Shoots fast and takes too long to damage anything, let alone kill even the weakest of things. The Raptor is a burst fire rifle with good enough DPS, and the shotgun is instakill at point blank and useless at any range beyond that. We're talking "right up in your face" range. No exaggeration.

For most of them, usage just does not feel good. And when the animation quality is laughable (just look at AMP sprinting, it's hilarious) it just doesn't help when the characters are absolutely boring as well.

Stonewall is what I assume the leader. He has a little bit of a potty mouth and a dumb attitude, Absolutely unlikeable and boring.
AMP is the female-with-attitude because we certainly haven't seen that before... mind the sarcasm...

Mass is... a shotgun toting Scot/Irish/I-can't-even-tell-anymore and absolutely uninteresting.
And Shade... is supposed to be sneaky? But the game doesn't really employ a stealth system so everything about him is... he's sneaky but enemies spot him immediately so... he's just really weak. Not to mention they advertise him using akimbo pistols but so far that doesn't seem to be a feature in the game. Apologies if it does come in later, I kind of gave up after a certain point in this game.

Every character has an AoE and a shield attack special skill. Largely, they're useless for how resource consuming they are, which only refills at certain tanks found in the game (no auto-regen) and for most characters these AoE's are awkward to aim.

Level design is in general made for firefights, Even in situations where you're only pitted against Aliens, which CAN and WILL crawl on the walls to maneuver their way around. I have to say, for how stupid your Teammates are, the Enemy AI sure is capable at killing them. Cover tends to mean very little unless you're holed down an actual corridor waiting for an Elevator to arrive.

The story? I heard some ridiculous leaps in some video games, but this one took the cake right from the start. Also, the tutorial doesn't seem to mention that your AoE (if ranged) has a fixed range. I was stuck in that section for 10 minutes until realizing that.

I have to admit, up until the Aliens arrived, the game was playable as a 'shitty that you could tough through'. But as soon as the critters came into play, only the cheesiest of cheesy tactics can work and not even always then. And, just to remind you, it takes TWO leaps from a mass of small critters to down you. If a teammate goes down, sure, the Player can cover the AI reviving. But if YOU get downed? Forget about it. Prepare for a slow and cringeworthy display of terrible AI that, one by one, come to revive you and find themselves downed by the enemy thats RIGHT BESIDE YOU. It takes actual geography to block an enemy for a revive on you to generally succeed.

Seriously, avoid this game. I know some people love playing games that are terrible, but this one just... it's not fun, not even in a laugh-at-a-bad-game kind of way. The only way this can MIGHT redeem itself is if you have a team of four HUMANS that know what to do in order to properly tough through this game. Forget about it on your own, you'll hate yourself trying to finish it.

Cripe almighty.

Very good game, one of the best third-person shooters, excellent graphics with solid gameplay, a bit off on the voice acting and lip sync but i don't mind. 8/10

Great game!!

Pure action, straight to the point, co-op campaign, multi-player mode... What I like the most is its intense gameplay and replayability. It's what in my opinion a VIDEOGAME has to be, no more, no less.

Trust me, once you get the grasp of the special abilities and how to properly use the enhancements you get by leveling up your character, the overall experience is just great.

For those saying it's like Mass Effect, Gears Of War, etc, well, that's a lax and vague statement. Yes, it has features seen on GOW and Mass Effect like 3rd person view, firing from cover or checkpoint based maps, but saying it's a clone of a game just because it includes GAME GENRE or GAME CATEGORY mechanincs is just stupid. It's like saying Call Of Duty, Battlefield, or Killzone series are clones of.... eeerm.... DOOM? Because they belong to the FPS category?? If you love 3rd person shooters, you'll love this game too, it's that simple.


PROS:

- Co-op campaign mode (even better with friends on max. difficulty).
- Lots of scenarios and special events.
- The intensity in the action of some chapters.
- High replayability: Once you beat the game, you'll love to replay it with what you have learnt.
- Great XP perk system.
- "Shade", one of the playable characters... he's just so cool
- Sniping!

CONS:

- Some enemies are too hard to beat down and this can get a bit frustrating at the beginning.
- Hard to find pvp games
- Could've had more remarkable differences among characters' abilities.
- There are moments in the campaign where the voice of Reisebeck telling you what to do next gets really annoying (he just won't shut up...)


My advice? GET THIS GAME, for its price it's well worth buying it!

Time Bought: Jan 1st 2012
Money Spent: $7.50 for a 4pack
Worth The Price?: YES, and then some
Position In Game At Time Of Review: finished the story mode on normal with a co op partner

WOW, this game is AMAZING for the cheap price that they have it for now a days on bundles and steam sales!!! First thing you'll notice is the graphics are GREAT, on par or even better than alot of $40-$60 games in the same genre. Second thing you'll notice right away is the Gears of War type of gameplay. Which by all means is not bad at all!!! I played with my gf who is a gamer too and we just wanted something to pass a couple hours, but we ended up getting very into it!! And the whole time we kept complimenting so much about the game. We are going to try the other options in the game or play Scourge Project Ep 1 &2 the day after beating this game. It definitely goes into my category of magnicent sleeper games!!!!

Rating: 8/10

This game is amazing. I did not find one bad thing about this game. I bought this on sale but after playing it I would have paid full price. Buy this and tell your friends to get it. I had fun with it alone so far and co op will be awesome. By yourself your ally AI is very good. You get hurt they're there in under five seconds. I didn't even use the quick order system (a button wheel system to order them around.) They did everything well on their own (covering fire, moving up, healing, etc). The enemy AI was very good as well. If you let your guard down or get reckless and rush in you will become nothing more than a hole-ridden corpse. Plot was simple and understandable and for me that's all I need. The weapons in the game were cool and should try to use all of them for achievements and to see which one fits your style. The game looks awesome and I don't even have that good of a computer (I have an i5-4200U cpu and intergrated graphics so if you have a good rig with a good video card this game is gonna look gorgeous). Music was good and always on cue for fights and quiet moments. I've beat this game twice and I have seen no glitches whatsoever. I have not yet played multiplayer but if its anything like single player it's gonna be good. Get this game.

Generic cover-based shooting with generic plot and cliched carbon-copy charaters. Enemy and ally AI is just bad. There isnt much challenge, making enemies bullet sponges and spawning gorillion of them at once might make game bit harder but is just easy way out for developer.
- Co-op seems somewhat fun actually. If this game someday comes on steam sale, this might be worth to consider as no-brainer co-op spamfest. For single-player and for full price, I wouldnt reccomend it.

As many already know, this is a re-launch of the original game entitled The Scourge Project: Episodes 1 & 2. I enjoyed the first game immensely, but I knew how broken and bug filled the game was. But the developers have really worked hard because dang, this game is great. It looks ten times better, runs ten times smoother, and best of all, I have not encountered a single bug. Although I played through the original twice already, this one still feels like a fresh new game. They really did an amazing job at making an already fun game into something brilliant. However, the AI is still kind of dumb for the most part. Other than that I am beyond impressed as to how much this game has changed. For $8 you'll be getting a solid single-player or co-op experience. I guarantee it. Plus the multi-player is really engaging and just an awesome time. I would totally buy this again. So do yourself a favor and purchase this game. I know you will have a great time.

Scourge: Outbreak is a generic third person shooter that borrows its design from Killzone, Gears of War, Mass Effect and Dead Space.

That said, what it does it does well and the game runs on even older machines reasonably well. There's the "two weapons and grenade" weapon style that has become standard, and none of the weapons so far have been anything besides standard style.

Enemies are dull design wise but smart enough to blind fire from cover, charge when in groups and take cover or hide from you if you're advancing.

Squad AI isn't the best but they've never actively hindered me and if I do get downed they're quick enough to pick me up without putting themselves in danger.

The voice acting is okay, it's very 80s action movie so if that's your kind of thing you're in for a treat.

Graphics are servicable I can tell what things are even if textures can be a bit muddied.

Also the game was free because of owning the original episodes now pulled from Steam so the devs are really cool.

Outbreak is a huge improvement over the original Scourge Episodes and, for the price, is a bit of solid TPS action. You can't easily get Gears of War on PC so this is the next best thing.

Problem is, it still has a long way to go. Guns feel weak because enemies are Gears style bullet sponges and guns have Gears style spray patterns, and some of this feels Gears-style just because that's what the devs loved and wanted to emulate. The shotgun may as well be a confetti cannon.

I can see where this might be fun in co-op, and it's not especially bad otherwise, but it just does not excite me. For $7 worth of Unreal Engine shooting, you can have a good time, but I have so much trouble picking this over other decent TPSes.

All that said, I DO commend this game for not wasting your time. Precious little of it is scripted. It is quick to funnel you from room to room and give you loads of things to shoot. Very few other Gears-style shooters really have this focus, instead throwing QTEs and cutscenes and slow-walking segments at you and too much other boring crap.

It is not quite fun enough for me to recommend, sadly, but it is still good enough that it is worth playing if you come across it or crave some co-op TPS action.

It`s Scourge time! Genious strike from the devs to hand out a free copy to all owner of the original game.

I didn`t think that this game would get a reboot but im glad it got one. The original scourge game had a lot of problems early on which ruined the fun for a lot of people. The multiplayer was really interesting to play due to the fact that its third person with taking cover and stuff.

Scourge: Outbreak doesn`t have those problems and really improved in many ways.

+The graphics got updated
+New and easy way to give all sort of commands to squad mates (KI)
+More details to the story
+KI got fixed

It looks pretty fun and I can`t wait to get into some dirty multiplayer matches and hopefully playing the campaign with some cool people in coop. Let`s get into this!