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OUTRIDERS

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People Can Fly’s new shooter is videogame mulch. It’s the best ideas of the last decade whittled down to the essentials, mashed together in Unreal Engine, and left to compost under the weight of expectation. This, after all, was one of the first games to be announced for PS5.

Where Outriders succeeds is in that mush of ideas, pummelled together by typically beefy power-armoured hands. It’s a

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