The Outfit is a group of highly trained army personnel who get dropped deep in the heart of enemy territory and do whatever damage they can in order to take over strategic locations.
Each level takes you on one such mission where your squad works its way from enemy building to enemy building, capturing bunkers and mowing down Nazis. You control one of three hero-like characters, and when one of them dies, you switch to another, and finally, to the last one. Each character has their own specialty and style. For instance, Lieutenant John Davis Tyler likes his sniper rifle, while the very Patton-like Captain Deuce Williams runs around with a bazooka and Sergeant Thomas "Mac" Macintyre sports machine-guns.
Though you will probably have a favorite, a character that appeals to your particular play style, you will probably end up getting to know them all throughout the game since it is very likely that in the heat of battle, your man will take too many hits and you will have to switch characters.
Most of the time you will guide your group from building to building, claiming an area. You claim a building by clearing out all of the enemies around it and walking next to the target bunker. Once this happens, all of the Nazi flags give way to the good ol' Stars and Stripes. Now if your hero gets killed in battle, the next one takes over at this new respawn point.
The Outfit has several major features going for it. Not only is pretty much everything destructible (provided you have enough firepower), but you can jump into any vehicle and if you have enough points, you can call down an air drop called Destruction on Demand.
Destruction on Demand is probably the aspect of this game that really helps to make it stand out. With this feature, you can select various weapons and vehicles to be parachuted down to you so that you and your squad can effectively clear out the enemy strongholds. Each level will have a different collection of available support gear. What gear is available to you depends on the nature of the mission. The game isn't likely to give you access to anti-aircraft guns if you aren't going to need them in that level.
Not only can you call for vehicles like tanks, halftracks and 4x4's, but if the enemy has left any behind, then you can man them as well. As you approach a vehicle, your character can jump into any of the available positions (driver, gunner, passenger, etc). Though you, the player, will have full control over both the guns and navigation no matter where your hero sits, the vehicle itself is limited by what seats are filled. For instance, if you have jumped into the driver seat and just started heading for the enemy without letting one of your team members jump into the gunners station, you can't fire. Also if you climb in behind the rear-mounted machine gun and no one is in the driver seat yet, then you aren't going very far.
