The Outfit is a mix of RTS and shooter, and the result is a mediocre game.
The storyline is surprisingly immersive. The campaign is a meaty 12 missions, each ranging from an hour to two hours, depending on how fast you want to blow through the game. The storyline actually takes a real event from WWII (the attempt at assassinating Adolf Hitler and then morphs the storyline to take place around your three heroes, Deuce Williams, Tommy Macintyre and J.D. Tyler. There are numerous twists in the plot, although sometimes you'll scratch your head wondering "Why didn't they realize that?" or "Why didn't they just do this?"
The game's not so serious, after all. You are given unlimited ammo for all guns and there is no reload button, however, this provides some freedom for people who don't want this in a third-person shooter like this. The game is a clear mix of Real-Time Strategy and Third-Person Shooter, seeing how you must capture command posts, get money to buy vehicles and emplacements, buy armor, buy turrets, buy vehicles, buy AI bots to help you, etc. and how you must also shoot things.
A nice addition to the game are medals. Medals are basically objectives that earn you Achievements (95 % of the game's achievements are secret, and 100 % of them are medals that you must earn in both singleplayer and multiplayer). An example of a medal would be a ship appearing on a shore suddenly, and a message would pop up saying "MEDAL OPPORTUNITY: Destroy that ship before it gets away!" and you must destroy the ship in a minute with an anti-tank rocket emplacement.
The multiplayer is where the replay value is, though. The game's multiplayer includes co-op for the Campaign with one friend (a very nice addition) and online multiplayer for up to 8 people. The multiplayer is definitely unforgettable, seeing how nearly all of the environment is destructive and you can order multiple vehicles and turrets while capturing objectives and killing people. The only problem with the multiplayer is that nobody plays it anymore, so you'll have to phone up a friend and tell him to get on for a 1-on-1. The game does boast maps to download for free, however, but like previously stated, you won't get to actually play them because no one plays this game.
The graphics are very surprising. Playing the game in 720p gives you sharp, crisp graphics and considering that this game was released March 13th, 2006 (a year and a day ago :P), the graphics are impressive. Frame rate drops are a bit of a problem, but they should only occur for a couple seconds about once a mission when a lot of action is going on (this excludes one mission, in which the frame rate retains its 30 fps, but the game slows down to a 10 fps...).
The sound is pretty annoying in this game. The entire time, all you are going to hear is bullets smacking metal, over and over and over and over again. You're going to have to play this game in low volume because the sounds are very repetitive and noisy. Definitely a letdown.
All-in-all, The Outfit is a decent, innovative game worth renting, but the lack of effort to render the singleplayer less repetitive and the fact that no one ever plays the multiplayer brings the game down to a short disappointment.