Frontier Developments’ boss David Braben is feeling really confident about his upcoming game, The Outsider (for PS3 and Xbox 360). Players take control of an ex-CIA agent framed for the assassination of the President in what looks to be a good, “high octane” time. But like we said, he’s feeling really confident about it. I loved the 1930s-1950s atmosphere of BioShock… but the gameplay itself was not ‘next-gen’… I found Halo 3 great fun, too, but also a little disappointing – as although there were a few nice touches and improved graphical fidelity, it hadn’t really moved on much from Halo 2 in terms of the gameplay.
His game on the other hand, is going to be fantastic: