The Evil Within

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  1. Young_Fawn
    Jun 21, 2023
    6
    Overall having done one playthrough and saw the game to the end, I'd give the game a 6/10.

    Now a 6/10 doesn't mean that I disliked the game, not at all, I did enjoy it but there were a few niggling issues which did get me frustrated time and again which I'll get to. Firstly, the style of the game is great, the monster design is cool, the set pieces are lovely to look at even in 2022.    Overall having done one playthrough and saw the game to the end, I'd give the game a 6/10.

    Now a 6/10 doesn't mean that I disliked the game, not at all, I did enjoy it but there were a few niggling issues which did get me frustrated time and again which I'll get to.

    Firstly, the style of the game is great, the monster design is cool, the set pieces are lovely to look at even in 2022. For those who bought the game on release and were forced to play at 30fps Letterbox mode, you can now completely turn that off and by god does it make a difference; you'd never tell this game was made in 2014 by how it looks, at least on PC.

    The protagonist is, well he's your standard brown hair, brown eyed American protagonist; although we do get some glimpses into his past as a detective and also his personal life which does give him some depth and it is delivered through passive storytelling rather than just simply having it explained to you.

    The Director, if I recall correctly, is the guy who did the original Resident Evil and also Resident Evil 4, and if you've played RE4 before going into this, you will definitely feel it's influence bleed through; you could even debate that it's some kind of spiritual sequel to RE4 the way this game plays. However the story isn't as good as something like RE4, the Story is... I don't want to say forgettable but it certainly didn't leave a lasting impression upon completion.

    It is a survival horror in the sense that ammunition isn't abundant, stealth killing and using traps to conserve ammo is a must and frankly you need to know when to fight and when to run; for me that's what made the game enjoyable, counting up your odds and making a decision.

    The game itself also seems like the closest we'll get to a new Silent Hill with how some of the set pieces and monsters are, so if you, like me, are waiting to see if/when Konami decide to release something like that, The Evil Within is a good filler.

    There are a few things however I did dislike and grew frustrated at.
    Firstly, the insta-death mechanics. I don't mind an instant death, if anything I find them quite humorous at how I've been punished for what might seem like an obvious error; but there's just... Too many of them at certain places and there's times where there's too many in quick succession and unfortunately sometimes if you die, you're going back a little bit. It did get a little frustrating just being one-shot over and over again from a wire I clearly didn't trigger. Or random spikes just gutting from seemingly nowhere. Like I said, it's not bad to have one-shot mechanics, but when it's so sudden, so random and almost all the time in some chapters, it becomes less fun.

    There are also times, now this might seem like an arbitrary criticism but it's something I couldn't help but notice, where something is about to happen, like a chase, in an in-game cutscene; then without warning, the camera is in a different place than you'd expect and you have full control of Sebastian again and before you can react (Because why would you expect to have to move during what you think is a cut-scene) you are dead. I got caught out by this almost every time and if you don't start moving the second you get control. Boom, instant death.

    Overall, I did enjoy the game and was willing to overcome some of the little things that annoyed me, the game is not bad by any means and will likely hold your attention to the end, you can complete it anywhere between 8-12 hours I reckon, I got 11 for my playthrough. I wouldn't go back and play it again for my own fun, only if a friend wanted to see a playthrough. But it's definitely an enjoyable experience and a strong entry into the Survival Horror Genre.    … Expand
  2. Christian_TV
    Apr 15, 2023
    7
    A quite fun game,nothing else. The plot is pretty confusing and monotonus,the graphics are ok.The game on Pc is really bad optimized (i play on a 3080 ti).
  3. applecookie
    Dec 11, 2022
    7
    You can't see it, but you can hear the zombie sound

    There is a great deal of fear from spatial and psychological pressure with nothing
  4. Goiti_2002
    Oct 31, 2022
    7
    El juego está hecho por Shinji Mikami y se le pueden ver las "similitudes" con Resident Evil 4. El juego lo recomiendo porque la historia me ha parecido entretenida, pero no es un título que recomendaría como juego de terror. El juego tiene algunos problemas que quizás se le pueden criticar como alguna animación extraña que tiene a la hora de abrir puertas cuando ibas corriendo y cosas porEl juego está hecho por Shinji Mikami y se le pueden ver las "similitudes" con Resident Evil 4. El juego lo recomiendo porque la historia me ha parecido entretenida, pero no es un título que recomendaría como juego de terror. El juego tiene algunos problemas que quizás se le pueden criticar como alguna animación extraña que tiene a la hora de abrir puertas cuando ibas corriendo y cosas por el estilo pero aún así nada grave. Una cosa que si que me ha fastidiado es que en algunas fases del jugo, inviertes toda tu munición en acabar con uno enemigos y cuando terminas con todos y vas ha disponerte a recolectar la munición que ellos te han dropeado no puedes porque el juego avanza a la siguiente cinemática y pierdes todo lo que no recolectaste.… Expand
  5. Cobrax657
    Jun 5, 2022
    5
    fine game but very very bad controls feels like playing a 1998 game or worst
  6. CnPx98
    Apr 29, 2022
    6
    The game has so much potential but is just frustrating at so many points. For starters the controls are just hot garbage when I was trying to play with a controller. You walk near a proximity trap, press the wrong button and you trigger the trap . The sprint lasts about 3 seconds, this can be upgraded how ever but seriously it shouldn't be that short in the 1st place. If you run out ofThe game has so much potential but is just frustrating at so many points. For starters the controls are just hot garbage when I was trying to play with a controller. You walk near a proximity trap, press the wrong button and you trigger the trap . The sprint lasts about 3 seconds, this can be upgraded how ever but seriously it shouldn't be that short in the 1st place. If you run out of ammo (Which you will because its a survival game) then melee does about 5% damage. To make it worse zombies don't flinch 90% of the time when meleeing so you hit them and then instantly retaliate making melee basically useless. You would think a game where ammo doesn't grow on trees to be able to flinch a zombie so if 1 zombie is within your escape route you can knock them back and get round them.
    The intro to the game (If you can call it that) was just terrible. I don't like a game to hold me hand and tell me everything through out the hole game but I also want a game to tell me how to play it. This game does not. You basically to work out everything and are thrown straight into the deep end. I didn't know what the controls were, whether to kill the zombie or to run away, to hide in the cupboard. No you have to work everything out after dying several times. Whilst your learning everything they decided to make you limp around at turtle pace just to increase your frustration even more. But minutes later you forget your leg was slashed and your completely fine again? Speaking of limping, another garbage idea is if your health drops below 30% you limp around aswell? I does recharge back up to 30% but still its annoying, I wouldn't mind it stopping you sprinting but slowing the player down to a crawl just gets annoying. I couldnt find a setting to turn off framelock so you have to play at 60 fps with vsync enabled. The game is still playable like this but would be nice to have uncapped without vsync. (This setting is set to 30fps at 1st and the mouse glitches out so use your keyboard to change this setting to 60 and the mouse will work fine)
    This game does have good sides aswell thou. The graphics for its time are truly amazing. I wish the texture distance was a bit longer thou. Everything looks no where near as good when its further away. The guns feel good to use. I like the enemies they both look and are amazing. The maps are cool aswell. Overall the game is mostly fun to play through if you can look past the annoying parts. You can get this game on gamepass. I had to switch it over to Windows 7 compatibility mode which you can do by accessing the game files. There is tons of tutorials on how to do this on Google.    … Expand
  7. d3uzZ
    Apr 13, 2022
    6
    Знатная солянка идей и нераскрытый потенциал.
    Миками не гений, он только умело адаптирует чужое.
  8. crookedcritter
    Dec 11, 2021
    6
    Pros: Good horror elements, great Ambience, interesting story for a horror game.
    Cons: Terrible pc port riddled with frame rate issues and frame drop issues, Aim box was dumb, aiming in general could have been way better. controls felt off and clunky. Bosses were not fun, just tedious, except for the last boss. I found myself just wanting to quit because it was so tedious, not from the    Pros: Good horror elements, great Ambience, interesting story for a horror game.
    Cons: Terrible pc port riddled with frame rate issues and frame drop issues, Aim box was dumb, aiming in general could have been way better. controls felt off and clunky. Bosses were not fun, just tedious, except for the last boss. I found myself just wanting to quit because it was so tedious, not from the difficulty.    … Expand
  9. LironesAlviento
    Jul 24, 2021
    7
    Un buen juego de terror con toques de resident, no es mi preferido pero no deja de ser un juego muy entretenido, mejor para mi gusto el dos pero para gustos colores.
  10. AxeWould
    Jul 22, 2021
    5
    Дропнул на 3 главе, босс з бензопилой меня домучил, мне и так не интересно было, еще и босс душный попался, но наверное это просто не мое. За то время что я играл было не интересно и не страшно. О управление и камере я лучше промолчу, ни рыба не мясо.Дропнул на 3 главе, босс з бензопилой меня домучил, мне и так не интересно было, еще и босс душный попался, но наверное это просто не мое. За то время что я играл было не интересно и не страшно. О управление и камере я лучше промолчу, ни рыба не мясо.
  11. SpankFinatra
    Mar 4, 2021
    6
    This game is for fans of the survival horror genre. I'm giving it a strong 6. I had a good time with this game, but it has quite a few flaws with the story and a couple sections that are just annoying to play but not to the point where it ruins the experience. If you liked the gameplay of old school Resident Evil, then you'll have fun with this title.

    P.S - I'm only giving it a 6    This game is for fans of the survival horror genre. I'm giving it a strong 6. I had a good time with this game, but it has quite a few flaws with the story and a couple sections that are just annoying to play but not to the point where it ruins the experience. If you liked the gameplay of old school Resident Evil, then you'll have fun with this title.

    P.S - I'm only giving it a 6 because the story is pretty weak, and while it's fun the game doesn't do too much to innovate. My critical score is a 6 but my personal enjoyment boosts it to a 7 for sure.    … Expand
  12. hertzian68
    Oct 11, 2020
    6
    Update: There's a trainer by enjoy on gamecopyworld that really makes this game much more enjoyable. It has an FOV slider, an option to speed up the character and other options that fix a lot of what's wrong with the game. It does not fix all the egregious lens flare and jarring visual effects nor the obnoxious camera bob but an FOV of 95 makes it not so bad. As a side note the majorUpdate: There's a trainer by enjoy on gamecopyworld that really makes this game much more enjoyable. It has an FOV slider, an option to speed up the character and other options that fix a lot of what's wrong with the game. It does not fix all the egregious lens flare and jarring visual effects nor the obnoxious camera bob but an FOV of 95 makes it not so bad. As a side note the major perpetrators of mkultra trauma based mind control are the judaeo-masons-marxists, this is an occult doctrine that was actually documented in one of the black magic grimoires of the middle ages attributed to Solomon, I think it's the clavicle or lesser key in the preface, it's just that the tech/pharmatech has really aided its effectiveness. The Japanese were very effected by the Springmeier books in the early 90's that documented all this, among others and this is primarily what their horror games are about. At bottom this is a kabbalistic satanic system that is used to bring in an atheist world communist dictatorship over the slave goyim with a directing elite of jewish talmudics and their worldly antichrist. That's really the story of this world before apocalypse, make sure you're on the right side there btw. You can see this in a hidden form in the stylized masonic symbol all over the place in the game, which is a hidden black magic hexagram of hermeticism and kabbalism.
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    Got back into this after playing it a few years ago on PC. I can't remember if I had problems with the NON-steam version or not but this steam version I've had no problems with getting 60fps with med/high settings and no/low AA. When the action is high it goes down though pretty bad in some places like when their is fog etc. My largest complaint as far as video options is the over aggressive lense flair and terribly balanced lighting along with the really weird camera bobbing and angles. The seeing double effect and other effects are really horrible too. All that combined with the jarring overly abundant cutscenes and taking control away from the player. In short this game gives me a headache to play too long. It's like being on a bobbing ship with a bunch of lights shining right at you in the fog, ugh. I couldn't tell you much about the story, forgettable like the sequels is. I can tell you a large part of it is simply MKultra/monarch occult, trauma based mind control based or the deliberate shattering of a personality and putting it back together with alters that are trained for various tasks. This used to be called multiple personality disorder but it's called DID now. This is deliberately done by the militaries of all countries, by the elite dynastic families and by various other cults and orgs. Hollywood has many of these that are famous. People whose specific memories can be locked away are very useful for political, military and other kinds of crimes for the occult underworlds new order. The shock chair for upgrading is an example of the type of tech they use as a part of all this. Trained killers like the seals, rangers, delta force etc and their counterparts in intelligence and other places, which can be given any command while under programming and they will carry them out. Politically these gun massacres are usually by these programmed multiples but are given a lot of help by unseen actors and the press/police as well. Disarming the American people is a major goal.

    The controls are ok on a pad but the character is really clunky to move around and there is def too much lag especially when in combat. It's a hard game to enjoy really. The colors are atrocious as well, a muddy look almost all the time with muted other colors make it not very appealing visually. Graphics are ok but are def dated. I'd say if it's cheap give it a go it is a standard mix of RE4 and alan wake. I can see a bit of Silent Hill but it's too run and gun for that comparison really.    … Expand
  13. elolugo
    Apr 21, 2020
    7
    Very good game. Very scary but the games feels unpolished. Some parts are too difficult to pass the first time
  14. 666999
    Apr 11, 2020
    7
    story: mediocre
    game play: good sometimes frustrating
    graphics and atmosphere: very good characters and voice acting: weak, sucks boss fights: mediocre the thing that was most difficult in this game and also furstarting are the freaking traps were too many. yes the **** traps. you can't walk a few seconds without some bomb explode in your face or your legs get stucked in some bear    story: mediocre
    game play: good sometimes frustrating
    graphics and atmosphere: very good
    characters and voice acting: weak, sucks
    boss fights: mediocre

    the thing that was most difficult in this game and also furstarting are the freaking traps were too many. yes the **** traps. you can't walk a few seconds without some bomb explode in your face or your legs get stucked in some bear traps. but still enjoyed it, im sure im gonna give it a new try in the future.    … Expand
  15. Ramiro1992
    Apr 8, 2020
    7
    Terrible port
    - Atrocious hitbox detection, most of the time bullets won't register, going through enemies despite hiting the target
    - Awful boss fights, way too large enemies that requires way too many resources to kill. - One of the worst horror games I have ever played this year. - The voice acting is laughable, being Leslie and Castellanos the worse by far. - Poorly optimized for    Terrible port
    - Atrocious hitbox detection, most of the time bullets won't register, going through enemies despite hiting the target
    - Awful boss fights, way too large enemies that requires way too many resources to kill.
    - One of the worst horror games I have ever played this year.
    - The voice acting is laughable, being Leslie and Castellanos the worse by far.
    - Poorly optimized for pc, probably was not even tested. If you move the mouse in the pause menu, when you read a file the text won't scroll, that may look like a small issue, but it's awful. I gotta pause the game without moving the mouse and going through the files, Bethesda should be embarrased for not testing this.
    - The keyboard is poorly optimized, the character will move in any direction. I ended up getting killed because the game won't register the keyboard key I am pressing, there's also a button delay sometimes, which makes the game unplayable
    - Chapter 10 is atrocious, I was liking the game until I played this chapter, annoying enemies everywhere
    - Weak and pathetic main character, I can run faster and longer in real life than that trained "cop", it is embarrasing watching how fast he gets tired, even with the sprint upgrades. HE looks like a 60 yrs old retired cop rather than a young one, pathetic deign.
    - Beyond awful graphics and textures, you can see the pixelation if you look closely.
    - Annoying combat mechanics, enemies will always have advantage in every aspect
    - Tedious trap disarming, making the game hard to enjoy

    Bethesda **** up this time, and they make things even worse with Evil within 2, they **** up Doom franchise with Doom Eternal, this guys just don't learn. The only reason I give this a 7 instead of a 6, is because I love Shinji Mikami concept, and I love the atmosphere and art design of this game.
    7/10    … Expand
  16. Nameless2131
    Feb 6, 2020
    6
    6/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  17. gameking
    Jan 10, 2020
    7
    The game is reminiscent of resident evil and silent hill.The atmosphere is successful but the graphics are really bad. It feels like an old game.Story is not bad and game-play time is very good.But this game is very hard. You need too much think and this will be bad sometimes. If you miss silent hill and resident evil style games, it's perfect for you.
  18. yokerclown
    Sep 29, 2019
    6
    Doesn't keep old good "Resident Evil" mechanics, but against that fact, bringing whole new horror atmosphere, with it's really great details and movie style!..

    "The Evil Within" is maybe more out of gaming part, than first "Resident" games, but by that it's positive.
  19. SilverOrlov
    Sep 26, 2019
    7
    A very good story and atmosphere were unforgivable broken by porting the game on PC with a lot of bugs and unimaginably crooked angles in important moments of the game. And also, it's "jelly slowness" of main hero, even after stamina upgrades. But the most disgusting on my opinion is the system of "no return". There was a lot of times when I was incredibly frustrated when I had to forgetA very good story and atmosphere were unforgivable broken by porting the game on PC with a lot of bugs and unimaginably crooked angles in important moments of the game. And also, it's "jelly slowness" of main hero, even after stamina upgrades. But the most disgusting on my opinion is the system of "no return". There was a lot of times when I was incredibly frustrated when I had to forget about keys in statues only because of some accidents that started a cut-scene and throw me in the next location. This game normally operates with an atmosphere of horror like in Silent hill, and dead action like in Resident evil, in it's own way... but the the terrible implementation of the product on a PC kills all its positive qualities. So, unfortunately, I can’t put it above a mediocre rating.… Expand
  20. JaydenPickens
    May 22, 2019
    6
    This game is a mixed bag. They tried to put so many things in this game that it turned out average. The controls are bad... the gameplay is not good. While, I liked fighting and coming up with ideas how to kill enemies and bosses, I hated the running sequences. I hate running away in any kind of game and I hate it here as well. Also, it's laughable how bad this pc port is. They don'tThis game is a mixed bag. They tried to put so many things in this game that it turned out average. The controls are bad... the gameplay is not good. While, I liked fighting and coming up with ideas how to kill enemies and bosses, I hated the running sequences. I hate running away in any kind of game and I hate it here as well. Also, it's laughable how bad this pc port is. They don't respect PC gamers and they should be punished because of it. F**k them up boys. Pickens out.… Expand
  21. Mobile
    Jul 24, 2018
    7
    ENG RU
    It is a pity that the game is designed for consoles, and in the form in which appears on the PC (control, camera, fov, lock fps, soap textures, performance), the game is strong in its genre, many times I was more pleasant and interesting to play than in RE4, beautiful level design, some locations is admired and offended, from the fact that if originally sharpened under the PC would    ENG RU
    It is a pity that the game is designed for consoles, and in the form in which appears on the PC (control, camera, fov, lock fps, soap textures, performance), the game is strong in its genre, many times I was more pleasant and interesting to play than in RE4, beautiful level design, some locations is admired and offended, from the fact that if originally sharpened under the PC would be even juicier and better, and only a curved port, which could be worse.Now about the game as a whole, exactly to 7 episodes, and this is exactly half of the game everything was interesting and feed and gameplay, opponents and ways to eliminate them and bypass, but then everything starts to repeat, the enemies become more, and no longer want to crawl for a long time and wait until the enemy turns his back or lure bottles, you want to either run or go into battle in the open, do not risk anything, not on the same Akum play. In General, you could do less episodes, about 12, especially because some were too short or do not understand what is needed, it would have kept the freshness and no sagging. The main character liked the charisma and appearance. the main villain of the rules, but the ending is not very much, I thought it would be something original, and even so it was clear what was happening.
    Жаль что игра предназначена для консолей, а в том виде в котором предстает на PC (управление, камера, fov, лок фпс, мыльные текстуры, производительность), игра сильна в своем жанре, во много раз мне было приятней и интересней играть, нежели в RE4, красивый левел дизайн, некоторые локации вызывает восхищение и обиду, от того что если бы изначально заточена под PC было бы еще сочней и лучше, а так лишь кривой порт, который мог быть и хуже.Теперь о самой игре в целом, ровно до 7 эпизода, а это ровно половина игры все было интересно и подача и геймплей, противники и способы их устранения и обходы, но потом все начинает повторятся, врагов становится больше, и больше не хочется долго ползать и выжидать пока противник повернется спиной или приманивать бутылками, хочется либо пробежать либо идти в бой в открытую, ничем не рискуем, не на Акуме же играем. В целом можно было сделать поменьше эпизодов, около 12, тем более, что некоторые были короткие или вообще не пойми для чего нужны, так бы сохранили свежесть и отсутствие проседание. Главный герой понравился харизмой и внешним видом. главный злодей норм, но вот концовка не очень понравилась, думал будет что нибудь оригинальней, а то и так было понятно что к чему.    … Expand
  22. jelikey
    Jun 26, 2018
    5
    There is no optimization, camera is awful, gameplay is boring. Main character is so weak, story is too slow and it's not original at all. At first it seems that game is interesting, but when first enemy shown, and you try to fight with him - all became so unprofessional. Because of weird camera you can't see half of the screen and you step at dangerous trap every 5 second.
  23. KARF4GEN
    May 10, 2018
    7
    Продукт полный самоцитирования и "роялей в кустах", с надуманной сложностью и вырвиглазной гаммой.
    Для ценителей предыдущих работ пойдет, на новичка может вызвать отторжение. Миками нужно или выдать что-то новое или уйти из бизнеса.    Продукт полный самоцитирования и "роялей в кустах", с надуманной сложностью и вырвиглазной гаммой.
    Для ценителей предыдущих работ пойдет, на новичка может вызвать отторжение. Миками нужно или выдать что-то новое или уйти из бизнеса.
  24. Tomle1202
    Feb 11, 2018
    6
    The Evil Within is a solid survival horror game that is, for the most part, thrilling. It just unfortunately suffers from a laughable story and a plethora of performance issues.
  25. Hack
    Nov 4, 2017
    7
    I actually played The Evil Within 2 before this one, which didn't ruin it for me but it did highlight the improvements made to the sequel, of which there were numerous.

    Overall I definitely enjoyed The Evil Within, the combat is very satisfying, it's just fun to play, it never gets old shooting off enemies heads and limbs, or setting them on fire, however the aiming definitely was a    I actually played The Evil Within 2 before this one, which didn't ruin it for me but it did highlight the improvements made to the sequel, of which there were numerous.

    Overall I definitely enjoyed The Evil Within, the combat is very satisfying, it's just fun to play, it never gets old shooting off enemies heads and limbs, or setting them on fire, however the aiming definitely was a little off, sometimes bullets seemed to just pass through enemies. There were a couple of annoyances that did hurt the gameplay though, the main one being you can only bind 4 items to hotkeys, even through the config file and it's just not enough, having to constantly go into your inventory manually and select an item or weapon was very clunky (you can bind up to 10 in the sequel which is plenty). I also didn't like the dedicated melee button, in the sequel you melee with MB1 if you're not aiming down-sights with a firearm, this felt so much more refined, the melee ability was also quite clumsy and you'd often miss the oversized crate you were trying to destroy for ammo.

    The story was decent but not great, it's also very confusing, it would have been even more so if I hadn't played the sequel first which does spoil the first game a little. The voice acting again is just OK, really nothing special at all, serviceable sums it up nicely. The audio in general was good though, from the monsters screaming as you burn them alive to the squish noise when you run over them with a vehicle. Visually I liked the style but it's not a massive looker, plus the performance is still really bad after all these years, things were improved but never fixed (you can now disable the black bars, but you'll see a 15-30fps hit depending on the area, you can also select 60fps mode whereas previously the game was locked to 30fps). I had to run the game at 900p instead of my native 1080p to hit 60fps stable in all situations which isn't ideal, but it's much better than playing with black bars at 1080p IMO. i'm using a very common build with a 3570k @ 4.3GHz, GTX 970 and 16GB DDR3 2133MHz, if you have better than this you'll be able to stick to 1080p as I wasn't far off but I can't abide dips.

    I will say there were too many one shot mechanics throughout the game, where if you go the wrong way or perform the wrong action you just die and have to start again, sometimes this is OK if it's a clear mistake you made, but many of the times I died I didn't do anything blatantly wrong so it was frustrating. Thankfully the devs removed this mechanic almost entirely from the sequel.

    Grab it when it's on sale if you're a fan of survival horror games like Resident Evil as I'm sure you'll enjoy it, and you can get it for pennies these days.    … Expand
  26. marcelus
    Mar 17, 2017
    7
    Yes I recommend The Evil Within for those who want an action based horror game.

    Pros: - Fun pace & nice length (14hs in my case) - Simple but usefull upgrade system - Art and cinematography. - Letterbox and FOV…yes. I like them for a survival horror. I like feelling uncomfortable or restricted while playing them. - Subtle post-process effects like, noise, glows/blooms, chromatic    Yes I recommend The Evil Within for those who want an action based horror game.

    Pros:
    - Fun pace & nice length (14hs in my case)
    - Simple but usefull upgrade system
    - Art and cinematography.
    - Letterbox and FOV…yes. I like them for a survival horror. I like feelling uncomfortable or restricted while playing them.
    - Subtle post-process effects like, noise, glows/blooms, chromatic aberration and some dithering for AO and the keylight shadows. Particle sprites for dust, smoke and fire are acceptable and well executed for a multi-platformer.
    - Facial expression looks better in person than in YouTube videos or wherever you watched gameplay. Is not hyper-realistic but it looks better than I expected (I talk more about graphics in the “cons” section)
    - Boss fights. They are good and tense.
    - Aside it’s linear I like the path the developers made for the player.
    - The OST is very good.
    - Clever UI and item mapping.
    - And of course Resident Evil, other survival horror games and movies references.
    - My favorite chapters are 6, 7 and the end of 9th :)
    - The Model Viewer ;)

    Cons:
    - The ending and the last chapters are less interesting than the first 60% (wich is great).
    - Meleé and barehand fights are too simple (at least is not Silent Hill Downpour hahaha!)
    - I couldn’t enjoy much of the TLOU alike stealth system. I think is a good addition but not that well executed.
    - I hate Ruvik's design (at least during game). Maybe similar concept (skinny, cryptic etc…but not as cliché as he was with his actions).
    - It looks really good in general but they could have improved pop-up textures, tessellation and DOF on the idTech5.
    - Dynamic shadows resolution.
    - The city chapters are horrible in terms of design. I hate ghouls with weapons…I hate modernity in this kind of games. I preferred the “Nocturne” ghouls with thompsons haha! they had more style.
    - Lack of turn around button (at least I didn't find it during my first playthrough)
    - Lack of option Co-Op. Is not that bad because it helps you to feel helpless but maybe for a DLC it would be great.
    - In this era of "Souls" games it would be great to see more options for the checkpoint system.
    - Bad AI (sometimes) and lame difficulty at moments (in “Survival Mode” wich is considered “normal)
    - The “cast” is not bad but I wished more characters involved…and more clothes states / variations during the story. BTW they could have helped Jennifer Carpenter to make a better role more fittable for her personality.

    I was expecting something less predictable and darker. Something different from RE4,5 and 6 with more puzzle solving and twisted plot. But no matter what are the cons. It's a good game wich I want to play a few more times :)    … Expand
  27. moonlight_shado
    Aug 14, 2016
    7
    I'm having a blast with this game which is so underrated here.
    Combination of Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Tomb Raider works very well. The game is very diverse, can surprises, adrenaline jumps are amazing. Incredibly good gameplay and what i value the most: unique and entertaining storyline.
    The game can be frustrating, a bit too difficult, where to reduce the difficulty is    I'm having a blast with this game which is so underrated here.
    Combination of Silent Hill, Resident Evil and Tomb Raider works very well. The game is very diverse, can surprises, adrenaline jumps are amazing. Incredibly good gameplay and what i value the most: unique and entertaining storyline.

    The game can be frustrating, a bit too difficult, where to reduce the difficulty is associated with starting the whole chapter again, but... in the other hand game is challenging, which is rare in todays vid. games. Optimization leaves much to be desired, graphically it is very good, but it should work much, much smoother. But if someone can turn a blind eye to these failings, will have a good time.    … Expand
  28. hassenpheffer
    Jul 30, 2016
    5
    Take a pinch of Silent Hill, Dead Space and add some Resident Evil mechanics, stir in some blood and guts and you've the Evil Within. It's a hodge-podge of practically every survival-horror game ever made (good and bad). With all those influences and you come up with a game both tedious and frustrating but oddly amusing. It has its moments with some haunting visuals and brain-twistingTake a pinch of Silent Hill, Dead Space and add some Resident Evil mechanics, stir in some blood and guts and you've the Evil Within. It's a hodge-podge of practically every survival-horror game ever made (good and bad). With all those influences and you come up with a game both tedious and frustrating but oddly amusing. It has its moments with some haunting visuals and brain-twisting segments but it tries to hard to be SOMETHING and ends up being a pain in the butt. The controls via keyboard and mouse are swishy and clumsy The UI in the menus has trouble between the mouse and keyboard for whatever reason and remaping is absolutely annoying. The gamepad controls are slightly better but the 3rd person character still wobbles and sways when you least need him to be. The weapon leveling system is simple but it takes to much goop to make anything worthwhile and there aren't any stats as to what weapons do in terms of power, etc. It's very sloppy UI-wise. There are only 4 quick keys and you can't use the mouse wheel to cycle through the weapons. That's the first I've ever heard or seen of that silliness. I had no issues with the graphics. Everything ran smoothly although the camera was really bad at times. The enemies are clever by lunging and running at you and dodging from time to time but blowing their heads off doesn't always stop them but lighting them with a match does. Go figure. The story may be the worst part overall. It's convoluted, nonsensical on goes on and on and on... It's just awful and very boring. The characters are one-dimensional and so is the laughable dialogue and mediocre voice-acting. It's not the worst of the horror-survival game out there but with so many other better titles, both 3rd and 1st person available I'd leave this for the cheapie sale to buy it.… Expand
  29. Blackcesar
    May 26, 2016
    7
    Evil within is a nice game. The story is a little bit convoluted, still it tries not to be the typical horror-slasher-splatter game and that's remarkable this days. The settings does everything here, is a mix of Silent hill with Residen evil 4 mechanics, and it works. You are going from fields to manor, from Butcher's shop
    to sewers so get ready for a lot of different environment, even    Evil within is a nice game. The story is a little bit convoluted, still it tries not to be the typical horror-slasher-splatter game and that's remarkable this days. The settings does everything here, is a mix of Silent hill with Residen evil 4 mechanics, and it works. You are going from fields to manor, from Butcher's shop
    to sewers so get ready for a lot of different environment, even some scenes are during daylight. Longevity is around 8 to10 hours for the first playthrough so not bad at all considering the genre, adding several dlc and second playthrough with new weapons can increase to 20 hours minimum, Big problem here is the pc porting from the consoles. It is just bad, with a 970 60 fps on medium settings is not always possible, even after patches. Now they are not updating the game anymore so it will stay like this forever. My advice is to find it online at a really cheap price (I was able to find it for 6-7 euros) and that's a bargain for this game.
    Be careful because there are several jump scares and in general will keep you at the edge of your seat, but that's the point of the game!    … Expand
  30. Realgigclin
    May 7, 2016
    5
    I never played this game at launch and i just beat the game now. This game is still extremely buggy with cut scenes without audio, locked frame rate and horrible texture pop in. I had the game crash 4 times on chapter 3 at the same spot and it sent me back around 10 minutes each time. This again happened on chapter 6 but only twice, and im pretty sure it wasnt on my PC's end (GTX 970 i7I never played this game at launch and i just beat the game now. This game is still extremely buggy with cut scenes without audio, locked frame rate and horrible texture pop in. I had the game crash 4 times on chapter 3 at the same spot and it sent me back around 10 minutes each time. This again happened on chapter 6 but only twice, and im pretty sure it wasnt on my PC's end (GTX 970 i7 4790k with 8 gigs of ram).

    Even without the technical problems the game has horrible voice acting, and a protagonist that you want to punch. He either doesnt talk or just makes sarcastic remarks and takes nothing seriously. This game also fails to make you feel like this world was ever alive, or to make you feel bad at all for what is happening. The beginning of the game you are basically driving through an empty city, no signs of destruction yet, just a bunch of parked cars and maintained streets with NO people. This game is also not scary, a few enemies look gross but thats it, it just throws blood in your face and calls it scary. The game tries to make the villain scary, or thinks that you will be scared of him, all he has to him is a huge scar down his pale face and all he does is make a pouting face and covers his eyes. Its almost laughable because the camera zooms in on him every time it shows him making an eerie sound effect. i mean if your scared of blood, just blood everywhere from walls to floors to entire pools than im sure you'll be scared of this game

    The game has good gameplay and makes you want to search for ammo and other supply's and can be challenging at times and has some fun moments, i just cant take the world or story seriously, i mean even your character doesnt give a ****    … Expand
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#22 Most Discussed PC Game of 2014
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#38 Most Shared PC Game of 2014

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Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. CD-Action
    Jan 9, 2015
    50
    It seems the developers were not entirely sure what they wanted to achieve and got caught between traditional and innovative approach, properly employing neither. [13/2014, p.56]
  2. PC PowerPlay
    Nov 30, 2014
    70
    Borrowing heavily from past survival horror games, The Evil Within still manages to create fear in its players despite some clunkiness. [Dec 2014, p.58]
  3. Pelit (Finland)
    Nov 15, 2014
    82
    As the Japanese survival horror genre goes, The Evil Within feels a bit old fashion but in a good way. It certainly has the potential of becoming a cult classic. [Nov 2014]
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