Overview

• Outlets played a restricted prologue build multiple times and reported distinct paths, dialogue, and solutions based on different character builds.
• Character creation centers backgrounds, positive and negative traits, and tagged skills, with attributes removed and frequent dialogue and environmental skill checks.
• Reviewers highlight upgraded UE5 visuals, more cinematic conversations, tighter movement, and more satisfying gunplay, with returning bullet-time and viable stealth routes.
• The sequel opens with a new Earth Directorate agent sent to Arcadia, a secretive colony under an autocratic Protectorate tied to exclusive faster‑than‑light tech.
• Launch is set for October 29 on Xbox Series X|S, PS5, and PC with day‑one Xbox Game Pass, with some previews noting October 24 early access and cautioning that only the prologue has been tested so far.