Outlaws is a first-person shooter

First-person shooter

First-person shooter is a video game genre that centers the gameplay on gun and projectile weapon-based combat through first-person perspective; i.e., the player experiences the action through the eyes of a protagonist. Generally speaking, the first-person shooter shares common traits with other...

 released by LucasArts

LucasArts

LucasArts Entertainment Company, LLC is an American video game developer and publisher. The company was once famous for its innovative line of graphic adventure games, the critical and commercial success of which peaked in the mid 1990s...

 in 1997 using an enhanced version of the Jedi

Jedi (engine)

The Jedi Engine is a game engine developed primarily by Ray Gresko for LucasArts. While not a true 3D engine, it is historically significant in moving forward the 2.5D first-person shooter genre with its ability to support a three-dimensional environment with no limitations in the 3rd dimension...

 game engine, first seen in Star Wars: Dark Forces

Star Wars: Dark Forces

Star Wars: Dark Forces is a first-person shooter video game developed and published by LucasArts. It was released in 1995 for DOS and Apple Macintosh, and in 1996 for the PlayStation. The storyline within the Dark Forces is set in the Star Wars fictional universe and follows the character Kyle...

. It is one of the very few FPS games with a Wild West

American Old West

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 setting. CG

Computer graphics

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 animation sequences, with special filters to look hand drawn, play between each mission and set up the action in the next area. It is the first video game to feature sniper zoom.

Although not a huge financial success, it does have a cult following that is still strong more than a decade later.
James Anderson, a retired U.S. Marshal

United States Marshals Service

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, comes home after a trip to the general store to find his wife Anna dying and his daughter Sarah, kidnapped by two outlaws known as Matt "Dr.