The Outfit’s fully destructible environments are quite impressive more impressive features from a technical standpoint and also helps keep the gameplay fun throughout. This system lets you eradicate, blow up virtually anything standing between you and the enemy. Using your machine guns, grenades or even air strikes you can destroy anything including buildings, bridges, encampments, barbed wire fences, enemy barracks. However, the path of destruction you create  can also extend to your own side’s items, so you need to be careful. The sheer amount of chaos you can create makes the gameplay even more enjoyable and intense. When you get stuck in certain areas or pinned down by enemy fire, you can call in your reinforcements, which are dropped from the air and offer Destruction on Demand. As outlined earlier, this feature is fun and lets you ratchet up the action almost instantly. It also gives you a great deal of flexibility in your attacks and lets you take an almost godlike control of the battlefield. The Outfit will also feature a number of cool weapons at their disposal including machine guns, mounted guns, bazookas and more. In addition, players can call in airstrikes to destroy enemy bases and soldiers without creating to much danger for yourself. You can also engage the enemy at close range with hand-to-hand combat techniques or can use their armor to break through enemy lines. From a gameplay perspective, The Outfit’s pacing is faster and less complex than traditional war sims. This arcade style approach gives the game an exaggerated feel that makes the violence seem almost comic at times.

Once each mission is completed, you earn what are called “FU’s”, which are points that you can use to call in airstrikes. These points can also be used to purchase weapons upgrades, extra vehicles, additional soldiers and other items. These points can also increase your arsenal, build machine guns nests or place anti-tank sections on the battlefield. This gives players plenty of flexibility when planning and executing their attacks, making for a varied set of tactical options. The solo campaigns consist of 12 unique missions ranging through a variety of environments ranging from deserts to beaches. Each mission offers plenty of challenge but the game truly shines when you play online against other players.  The Outfit’s multiplayer modes support both split screen and Xbox Live modes, which increases your options. Its split screen mode lets two players to battle through the campaign missions cooperatively or they can battle each other in versus mode.  The Outfit’s Live support is quite impressive and features several cool multiplayer modes such as co-op, team, and deathmatch modes. This gives the player plenty of options and you can change the rules such as timing and number of kills before each round. A straightforward lobby interface makes it easy to set up and play matches. The Outfit supports up to 8 players simultaneously and includes game-matching abilities. Players can also communicate with others using the console’s headset controller. In addition to these standard features, the developers are promising plenty of downloadable content including new maps, skins, vehicles, and other items available. With all this in place, The Outfit is one of the deeper Xbox 360 online titles in terms of depth and polish. Its simple play mechanics and fast-paced gameplay makes it ideal for online play, and it performed well with little in the way of lag or dropped games to slow down the action.

The Outfit’s graphics are decent from a technical standpoint, and it does an excellent job of exploiting the Xbox 360 hardware. There’s a lot going on in the title, and the battlefields come alive with an excellent level of quality evident throughout, with some light sourcing and bump mapping used to give certain areas of the game a modern appearance. While individual objects look a bit plain, the sheer amount of destruction more than compensates for this. The environments are large and impressive, giving you plenty of space to maneuver on the battlefield. With so much going on, the game’s straightforward presentation helps to keep things clear throughout. Each battlefield in the game is impressively detailed, and the fact that you can destroy virtually any object you see makes the game’s ‘sandbox’ approach more appealing. The game’s production values are decent, with impressive cinema scenes used to convey the action. Comically over-the-top voice-over acting is used to give The Outfit a more humorous appeal than most war games, adding to the fun. The battles themselves also seem rather exaggerated with all-out warfare where anything and everything seems to happen. While the finished product looks decent, it doesn’t have quite as production polish as games like Call of Duty 2. Attempts at realism seems to have been thrown out the side of the plane but the Outfit’s sheer entertainment value and fun more than makes up for this. From a technical aspect, the game supports many of the console’s HD features including. 16:9 widescreen support, 720p High Definition mode, and 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround for superb sound, which helps to give the game a smooth appearance throughout with little in the way of slowdown or draw-in. This definitely looks like a next-generation game, with slick visuals on par with other 360 arcade style games like Ridge Racer 6 and NFS: Most Wanted.

Even though The Outfit isn’t as intense or realistic as some other shooters, Relic wasn’t trying to create a truly realistic representation of World War II. Instead, the developers at have focused on making this an enjoyable, accessible combat experience. Everything from it’s impressive array of weapons and machinery to its drop and shoot approach lets gamers take most aspects of the battle into their hands. This makes for a fun game, that isn’t as taxing as traditional wargames. There are some intense battles, but the game is geared more towards itchy trigger fingers than cerebral thinkers. Calling in extra firepower at will adds chaos to the battlefield, yet is also strategic in nature, giving the game more depth than expected. The Outfit’s single player is entertaining, but the online and multiplayer modes is where things really get interesting. While the visuals aren’t quite as polished as some of the Xbox 360’s more elaborate releases, the game still delivers a satisfyingly slick appearance. A humorous storyline and over-the-top characters make this an enjoyable game as well. The ability to creating massive amounts of destruction at the push of a button makes for a fun game with instant accessibility and high replay value. This isn’t the deepest or most elaborate game on the market, but The Outfit is a pleasing diversion for gamers looking for a less intense wargaming experience.