The Evil Within

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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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).
  5. 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
  6. Diaboliquin
    Oct 15, 2014
    6
    El tan esperado Evil Within resultó ser un pésimo port para PC.

    - Pocas opciones gráficas de configuración. - Limitado a 30 cuadros por segundo. - La relación de aspecto es horrenda, utiliza mentadas "barras negras cinemáticas". - Utiliza mecánicas de juego ya vistas en otros lados, como Outlast y Alien Isolation. - Sistema de actualización e algunas características del personaje,    El tan esperado Evil Within resultó ser un pésimo port para PC.

    - Pocas opciones gráficas de configuración.
    - Limitado a 30 cuadros por segundo.
    - La relación de aspecto es horrenda, utiliza mentadas "barras negras cinemáticas".
    - Utiliza mecánicas de juego ya vistas en otros lados, como Outlast y Alien Isolation.
    - Sistema de actualización e algunas características del personaje, totalmente consolero y poco realístico. (Como solo poder correr 3 segundos, incrementar de 6 a 7 balas... realmente estúpido)
    - Que en el 2014 tenga uno que usar líneas de comando especiales para hablitar la consola, para entonces alterar cosas como el límite de fps o la relación de aspecto es ridículo, estas cosas las debió considerar el desarrollador.

    + Algunas partes tienen buena tensión en cuanto a horror.
    + Gráficos aceptables.

    * Quizás salga un plugin para FlawlessWidescreen que corrija todo este sinsenido ténico del juego.    … Expand
  7. 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.
  8. Avodeskorm
    Oct 15, 2014
    6
    Really needs optimization. I get a constant 30fps until the game decides to go down to 0fps every 4 minutes. The id tech 5 engine really sucks, I hope that they are going to patch this game.
  9. Nexusjob
    Oct 17, 2014
    6
    The game itself is quite good, mechanics work fine and I have no problem with the controls (I use an xbox controller). Not the most original survival horror, a lot is borrowed from resident evil and other games but fun enough to enjoy until the end. I would have given it a higher score if it had been ported better though. I don't have the most powerful rig but I played alien isolation withThe game itself is quite good, mechanics work fine and I have no problem with the controls (I use an xbox controller). Not the most original survival horror, a lot is borrowed from resident evil and other games but fun enough to enjoy until the end. I would have given it a higher score if it had been ported better though. I don't have the most powerful rig but I played alien isolation with a decent fps on mid-low settings. This game is far more demanding because it has few graphics settings i can lower and even on 720p it gets choppy. Since I am well within the minimum specs required I expected not to have this kind of problem. Seems to be a case of bad porting to me.… Expand
  10. kirstu
    Nov 14, 2014
    6
    I must admit that the game seemed stellar at first and I was blown away. I had the true feeling that this had the true essence of a nice continuation of what it was to be a true horror came, akin to early resident evil or the silent hill series (Do keep in mind this is relative to their release times).

    However, after less than a few hours of gameplay i was bitterly disappointed by the    I must admit that the game seemed stellar at first and I was blown away. I had the true feeling that this had the true essence of a nice continuation of what it was to be a true horror came, akin to early resident evil or the silent hill series (Do keep in mind this is relative to their release times).

    However, after less than a few hours of gameplay i was bitterly disappointed by the repetitive gameplay elements and it seemed that the game simply boiled to a gameplay that closely resembled a splinter cell with zombies.

    In the beginning i really had no expectations. My hopes were elevated to a completely fascinating degree, and dashed down like no before. Bravo.    … Expand
  11. 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.
  12. azeitona
    Dec 28, 2014
    6
    I was wishing to like this game so much more...

    Yeah, some of the problems have been addressed and patched. That stupid letterbox: gone. 60 FPS unlocked, hell yeah. But, even so, the game likes to take a crap on my PC, and even though it's not an Alienware, it should be able to run the game at least at medium settings. But the framerate keeps dropping all the time. And the texture    I was wishing to like this game so much more...

    Yeah, some of the problems have been addressed and patched. That stupid letterbox: gone. 60 FPS unlocked, hell yeah. But, even so, the game likes to take a crap on my PC, and even though it's not an Alienware, it should be able to run the game at least at medium settings. But the framerate keeps dropping all the time. And the texture pop-ins are still there. Ugh. Sadly, the PS4 version is much better and more stable.

    The story is rather interesting. The characters are totally bland and the game already starts with you knee-deep in the **** after only two minutes of intro. The pacing is kinda poor to me, but the plot is so bizarre that it's probably what will keep you going.

    Now, for the gameplay... ugh. The least I say, the better. I know this is supposed to be hard. I know this is supposed to be challenging. But it ends up just being... frustrating. The open combat sections suck. That enemy that throws dynamite at you sucks. And I wouldn't have that much of a problem with all the stealth if the controls and the camera weren't so bad. At the third chapter I just though "screw it", then lowered the difficulty and started shooting instead of trying to sneak my way over the place.

    So... The Evil Within. Not a bad game at all. It even was really fun, at least when I was not engaged in combat. The enemies are really creative, and, although the game is not really scary, it's very disturbing. If you want a challenge, are a fan of Resident Evil and love to try a section of a game again, and again, and again, well, then go ahead. I do not regret buying it, but I could've just watched a complete walkthrough on Youtube and save me the frustration with the clunky gameplay.    … Expand
  13. Sawt00th
    Oct 15, 2014
    6
    Mediocre, horrific port. The fact this has been released on PS2 etc as well speaks for itself. Was built for the console market and they use 8gb RAM shared. Which is useless for most PC gamers that are operating with 8gb System RAM and 3-5gb VRAM. The engine should be directly capable, it appears it’s the designers that are not capable. Gameplay should be good considering the dev studiosMediocre, horrific port. The fact this has been released on PS2 etc as well speaks for itself. Was built for the console market and they use 8gb RAM shared. Which is useless for most PC gamers that are operating with 8gb System RAM and 3-5gb VRAM. The engine should be directly capable, it appears it’s the designers that are not capable. Gameplay should be good considering the dev studios leaders history, nowhere near a successor for RE/SH. You can unlock the FPS via the console. The black bars due to the native resolution at best add to the atmosphere of a B’Movie. It misses the tricks of the new adventure/mystery games (Vanishing of Ethan..) and the new horror games (Outlast, Alien, Amnesia) I would not pay full price for this title on PC.… Expand
  14. Bloodish
    Oct 19, 2014
    6
    Okay, so I was excited to play this game. Me and a couple of friends got together, and finished it over a weekend. But sadly, we were all a bit let down by the game.

    The game looks good, has great atmosphere, solid gameplay and a very nice variety of enemies. Those are the main pros of the game. But the plot of the game is so damn confusing. It's as if the writers weren't even sure    Okay, so I was excited to play this game. Me and a couple of friends got together, and finished it over a weekend. But sadly, we were all a bit let down by the game.

    The game looks good, has great atmosphere, solid gameplay and a very nice variety of enemies. Those are the main pros of the game. But the plot of the game is so damn confusing. It's as if the writers weren't even sure themselves, what was going on, and the vague explanations for what is actually going on in the game, isn't revealed until about 7-9 hours into the game. And that is simply way too long to tell the players what is going on. It's not like I want the plot served on a silver platter or anything, but the story was all over the place, making no sense for the majority of the game.

    Furthermore, the cast of characters is overall very forgettable, and the protagonist features some truly horrible emotionless voice acting at times. It is extremely rare that he actually reacts somewhat like a human being to what goes on around him. I mean, if i were chased down by a creepy giant girl-monster, covered in blood, with long floaty hair and long sharp fingernails, that she's trying to dig into my flesh, and I just barely escape, I wouldn't say a reaction somewhat like **** that was pretty close." is a valid response to that situation. And that kind of bland boring voice acting sticks around for the entire game.
    This is truly a shame, since it makes it extremely hard to connect to the main character.

    Overall, this game was a let down for me, but i don't regret playing it. Although I didn't like it overall, i would still recommend people that like the genre to play it and give it a chance. I simply warn you not to expect the great game that was promised, and not to expect a coherent meaningful story, but rather a cool mess with a bad premise.    … Expand
  15. riceylauj
    Oct 14, 2014
    6
    Game is ok. Nothing wrong with the story. Content overall is interesting. More survival horror with gore rather then any kind of all out scaring. Definitely feels like RE4.

    But there is definitely some issues with performance and controls and graphics. Black bars and motion blur cause me to have headaches and dizziness within an hour of playing (which I haven't had in ages in a    Game is ok. Nothing wrong with the story. Content overall is interesting. More survival horror with gore rather then any kind of all out scaring. Definitely feels like RE4.

    But there is definitely some issues with performance and controls and graphics. Black bars and motion blur cause me to have headaches and dizziness within an hour of playing (which I haven't had in ages in a game). You can turn them off with the console but still doesn't change the fact that they thought it was a good idea. So much wasted space. Controls function badly with mouse and keyboard, works ok with controller though.    … Expand
  16. Jakal
    Oct 18, 2014
    6
    For anyone who doesn't want to read all of my review the game is buggy as hell(on the pc release at least) and the enemies are just terrible in all honesty dumber and glitchier than anything i've seen i quite some time. (note: i'm also a fan of Shinji mikami's other games but this is a load of trash for the price you'd be paying)

    The game is a disappointment it really is...... I've been    For anyone who doesn't want to read all of my review the game is buggy as hell(on the pc release at least) and the enemies are just terrible in all honesty dumber and glitchier than anything i've seen i quite some time. (note: i'm also a fan of Shinji mikami's other games but this is a load of trash for the price you'd be paying)

    The game is a disappointment it really is...... I've been looking forward too this game since it was first announced however after playing the game doesn't seem finished it seems like it was shipped early about 85% complete : The game play would be fun if it wasn't so buggy the biggest problem i'm having is the frame rate is absolute murder it constantly goes up and down on a ridiculous level to the point where sometimes it becomes completely unplayable. The enemy ai behaves really badly. Some situations where it should be nerve racking terrifying and difficult are in fact laughably easy due to the enemy a.i. behaving such as running into walls i have only gotten to chapter five but the last boss Laura i think her name was behaved so stupidly that i could literally walk around at ease without any threat whatsoever.
    The voice acting is bad and when i say bad where i think they just used where the voice actors read the script in completely neutral and decided to use them like that i honestly didn't believe until i played and tried it i literally laughed because it was so out of place in the environment. The graphics are fine they don't have any problem for me the story seemed like it would be decent too if i could actually play the game and get to it i'm at the point where i thought it seemed like such a complete and total waste of my time i'm extremely unhappy with the product. Maybe get the game in awhile when its much cheaper but as it stands now do not get this game for its price it seems like it would be a great game if nor for the performance issues and bad a.i.    … Expand
  17. linksys17
    Oct 20, 2014
    6
    Well this game certainly has it's glaring issues but overall it is a decent game

    Pros: - Good Atmosphere - Freaky And Scary Enemies (I will have nightmares) - Decent Story Line - Good Use Of Sound And Visual Design To Inspire Fear Cons: - Poor Console Port, The Game Has Many Frame Drops And Performance Issues Specs: I7 3770K 4.4 GHZ, 16GB 2133 MHZ RAM, 7970 GHZ So As You Can    Well this game certainly has it's glaring issues but overall it is a decent game

    Pros:
    - Good Atmosphere
    - Freaky And Scary Enemies (I will have nightmares)
    - Decent Story Line
    - Good Use Of Sound And Visual Design To Inspire Fear

    Cons:
    - Poor Console Port, The Game Has Many Frame Drops And Performance Issues
    Specs: I7 3770K 4.4 GHZ, 16GB 2133 MHZ RAM, 7970 GHZ
    So As You Can See It Is Not My Setup That Is The Problem

    - Black Bars && 30 fps Lock, I Did Modify The Config File To Fix This Issue But Why The Hell Did They
    Simply Not Include The Option In The Graphics UI With A Disclaimer: blah blah this is not the experience
    we endorse: you should stick with the letterbox and 30fps blah blah blah

    - Dat Camera, Seriously I Know They Think Anything That Adds Difficulty Is A Good Thing But
    The Sluggish Camera And Poor FOV Was So Jarring And Not In The Good Way

    TLDR: Evil Within Is A Fun And Scary Game But Has Serious Optimization/Performance Issues On PC    … Expand
  18. R_access
    Nov 27, 2014
    6
    I only have 30 minutes in, so I suppose I should give it more time, but wow is it hard to do so. Crashed immediately after starting it, terrible frame rate, poor graphic filter and more are the least of the problems, sadly. Its just a poor experience. Its a trial and error game, where immersion is broken constantly by the completely illogical progression method.

    Sadly, this isn't scary.    I only have 30 minutes in, so I suppose I should give it more time, but wow is it hard to do so. Crashed immediately after starting it, terrible frame rate, poor graphic filter and more are the least of the problems, sadly. Its just a poor experience. Its a trial and error game, where immersion is broken constantly by the completely illogical progression method.

    Sadly, this isn't scary. Its just a very slow, plodding trial and error exercise with predictable gore and frustration.

    This is no successor to resident evil, its a huge step backwards    … Expand
  19. Memlink_Dermlet
    Mar 9, 2015
    6
    I have to start by saying this game is an utter disgrace as far as ports are concerned. If you are looking to run this game at 60fps (Vsync required?) 1080P then good luck. I do not care what machine you have. As a rule of thumb, when a developer or publisher put insane PC requirements out that means they have done little to no testing and do not want people to say they can not play onI have to start by saying this game is an utter disgrace as far as ports are concerned. If you are looking to run this game at 60fps (Vsync required?) 1080P then good luck. I do not care what machine you have. As a rule of thumb, when a developer or publisher put insane PC requirements out that means they have done little to no testing and do not want people to say they can not play on the recommended specs. As of this review you can remove the bars that take up a portion of your monitor (at a lose of FPS) and I believe SLI is still not supported which is baffling if I am correct.

    The graphic options are pathetic and have little to no impact on your performance, its the resolution. This game simply hates 1080p and you might have to find some slightly lower resolution. This is just unacceptable and its really a crime given how this game is really great if it runs well.

    I can not speak of keyboard controls, but the controller works fine.

    As for the game itself you will find yourself in a completely insane world. Certain bosses are truly terrifying and will kill you often. The game is thick with atmosphere and at times certain enemies give you a dark souls feeling given how large they are. The safe zone is particularly interesting in this game and I do not want to spoil anything. The game is very gory and weapons do visceral damage. Oddly death animations are non existent save for special enemies, you kind of just drop dead. (Chainsaw death though!)

    The game has an interesting fire mechanic and the gunplay is solid. The upgrade system is nothing special. Overall despite what some may claim this is survival horror. Yes you have guns and ammo. You will be shooting a lot, but usually if you have a ton of ammo there will be a large horde and its empty in no time if you do not use fire well. Don't expect to leon karate these guys, bare hands do not work well against horrific monsters.

    This game is best summed up as one reviewer put it as the resident evil 5 we never got. He went on to say but its too many years late and new mechanics are needed. I have to say while I agree with the upgrade system the mechanics were fine. Boss battles are genuinely terrifying and you will find yourself running trying to figure out how to kill something that warps away from bullets.

    Im not sure if its a translation issue or what but the writing is god awful. Your characters, possibly in a situation where 90% of people would upon finding a gun blow their brains out seem to not care about anything. Your partner tries to kill himself and you tackle him, take the gun and go "What the **** man" then walk off. "Im a police officer, maybe I should help you?" Your characters animations to see a room completely changing are realistic but the dialogue is just painful. "Lets find the exit" after left has become right, down up, red to blue.

    I love this game but I also hate it. I can't put it down but my god is it infuriating how no effort was put into this PC port. I can't imagine playing this before the black bars were removed and the 30 fps cap was lifted. And to the idiot reviewers who act like PC gamers need to get over 30fps because its not a twitch game....
    Yea the giant monster I have to run out of the way from, the bomb I have to make a needle land on the small green spot. Or the man with the gigantic chainsaw coming for me. No problem, give me half the information I like watching my guy get impaled by a chainsaw at 30fps. Its so cinematic. Popcorn anyone?    … Expand
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. Nameless2131
    Feb 6, 2020
    6
    6/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  23. 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
  24. d3uzZ
    Apr 13, 2022
    6
    Знатная солянка идей и нераскрытый потенциал.
    Миками не гений, он только умело адаптирует чужое.
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. 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
  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. expellite
    Oct 20, 2014
    5
    The Black Bars Within ... someone tell me please what are those black bars?! Is this a cinematic movie or game?! Oh of course it's not the only reason why I gave this game 5 out of 10 but it's not ignorable, isn't it?! Environments are coll but I think that the game doesn't have enough scariness potential. I'm not accusing the game of not being scary because it's not that bad but it's notThe Black Bars Within ... someone tell me please what are those black bars?! Is this a cinematic movie or game?! Oh of course it's not the only reason why I gave this game 5 out of 10 but it's not ignorable, isn't it?! Environments are coll but I think that the game doesn't have enough scariness potential. I'm not accusing the game of not being scary because it's not that bad but it's not well crafted enough for a Shinji Mikami game. If anyone else was the director I would say that it's a quite terrific survival horror but for Mr. Mikami ... I dunno! Maybe people aren't scared easily these days.… Expand
  30. SenshudoTV
    Oct 27, 2014
    5
    The Evil Within is not a terrible game, just a game constantly hampered by its own inability to flow and horror needs to flow in order to maintain its own pace because much like comedy, good horror is all about timing. Unfortunately, the Evil Within delivers its mail far too late. And then forces you to hang out inside the mail box with a boring cop.
  31. Blackdragon666
    Oct 19, 2014
    5
    Terrible A.I with low resolution textures, bad lighting, lack of anti-aliasing, low framerate and sluggish controls.

    This game is the disappointment of the year.
  32. braindamage
    Jan 17, 2015
    5
    an average game or maybe a little below average , that's slow and methodical to develop, with paid dlc content to get basic weapon like a fire crossbow bolt, over all uneventful slog to get thru with no high point's, with nice graphics , since they released the patch to remove the black bars, recommend for about 10 bucks ,
  33. MasterLink
    Oct 22, 2014
    5
    Ok, I just played the first half-hour of the game. Up to this point, I must admit, I'm quiet disappointed. Graphics are nice and all but I find no pleasure in continuously trying to kill an invincible enemy and then walking like a cripple in completely empty areas (perhaps they should have looked at Metroid Prime for inspiration). I thought videogames were all about interactivity and theOk, I just played the first half-hour of the game. Up to this point, I must admit, I'm quiet disappointed. Graphics are nice and all but I find no pleasure in continuously trying to kill an invincible enemy and then walking like a cripple in completely empty areas (perhaps they should have looked at Metroid Prime for inspiration). I thought videogames were all about interactivity and the first hour of any game is the time-period casual players decide what to do with their money. I hope things won't stay stable for the rest of the game as I do have faith in Shinji. Update of this review when action comes into place.… Expand
  34. 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
  35. 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.
  36. AFall
    Oct 15, 2014
    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.
  37. Fyra
    Oct 18, 2014
    5
    Too linear. If i wanted a movie, i'd go watch netflix. The game will also lag on PC. Ill admit though, I didnt play it though. However, thats for a reason.
  38. RustyGutsGaming
    Oct 28, 2014
    5
    The Evil Within disappoints on PC with a cheap console port feel to it. I found the camera to be very annoying, the controls and movement awkward, and the game play on the verge of just boring. The game is riddled with identical game play to Resident Evil so if you liked Resident Evil then you may find some similar game components to enjoy but if you were looking for some super scary,The Evil Within disappoints on PC with a cheap console port feel to it. I found the camera to be very annoying, the controls and movement awkward, and the game play on the verge of just boring. The game is riddled with identical game play to Resident Evil so if you liked Resident Evil then you may find some similar game components to enjoy but if you were looking for some super scary, intense, and well developed horror game, look elsewhere. This game severely disappoints.… Expand
  39. MajorTerra
    Nov 3, 2014
    5
    I'm sorry to say "The Evil Within" is not a must have game, did not buy a game with so much potential for frustration earlier this year. 3 Bullets + 15% health at boss fights is no fun, at least not at the easiest level.
    graphics is poor, looks like this game stayed 10 years in a tray before selling it, a lot of tearing, curious clipping, it's pretty hard see progress in the story cause    I'm sorry to say "The Evil Within" is not a must have game, did not buy a game with so much potential for frustration earlier this year. 3 Bullets + 15% health at boss fights is no fun, at least not at the easiest level.
    graphics is poor, looks like this game stayed 10 years in a tray before selling it, a lot of tearing, curious clipping, it's pretty hard see progress in the story cause of the absolutely unfair balancing. it has not a real soundtrack, only two classical samples are played from time to time. even DRM was a bad decission from bethesda, I'm over 18 years old and ready to choose for myself what I want to see.    … Expand
  40. Zachariel
    Nov 11, 2014
    5
    I won't detail the flaws of the PC version. Yes, black bars, bad camera, bad control schemes . Nothing the consoles aren't also suffering from. You can disable the bars at least, you can enable 60 FPS and you can remap your keyboard. The texture pop-in gets really annoying, but that's more of an engine problem, Rage had the same issues.

    Worst offenders gameplay wise are sections,    I won't detail the flaws of the PC version. Yes, black bars, bad camera, bad control schemes . Nothing the consoles aren't also suffering from. You can disable the bars at least, you can enable 60 FPS and you can remap your keyboard. The texture pop-in gets really annoying, but that's more of an engine problem, Rage had the same issues.

    Worst offenders gameplay wise are sections, starting in the middle part of the game, where the camera inverts the scene, your already imprecise controls are also inverted and any misstep means insta-death. Great, thanks and thanks for making me reload, change from save location to game, walk to this area, endure two cutscenes before retrying this annoying section, as there is no immediate checkpoint before...

    Most of the game plays like a Resident Evil 4 / Resident Evil 1 / Silent Hill 1 Hybrid with slightly worse controls. I could deal with this, the old games were fun even with bad controls, but this game delivers nothing exciting, nothing new. It's seems more like a collection of deleted scenes from a various number of horror films and games. They just don't seem to fit together. Every chapter for itself is okay, but I always get the feeling I had already played or seen this before. Been there, done that. The game just seems uninspired, which is strange as the creator's previous work was bursting with creative ideas. And it does the modern horror thing of "how much blood, gore and other disgusting stuff can i put on the screen before i become a parody?". Also, the game has very few scary moments.

    It does have some good moments, especially the chapter heavily borrowing from the cancelled "Resident Evil 4 - Hooked Man" demo version. Or the Silent Hill 2 like Boss fight a little earlier. However, picking up my earlier criticism, for every scene I can point to some game or film which did almost exactly the same, only better. Or more original.

    All in all, neither deserving praise nor condemnation. If you like the genre, give it a try once it reaches 20 bucks or less and you find nothing more deserving for your money. Definitely not worth full price. 6/10 for gameplay, 4/10 for content.    … Expand
  41. andxme
    Sep 7, 2015
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Gioco poco ispirato, manca di mordente e tratteggia una trama confusionaria mal raccontata e poco originale.

    Hitbox dei colpi totalmente da rivedere, gameplay a tratti frustrante. Si salva una discreta grafica pur con alti e bassi e un'inizio carico di tensione, peccato poi scemare brevemente in un B-movie della peggior categoria dal 8-9 capitolo in poi, la trama è confusionaria i boss mancano di interesse e la paura cede il posto alla noia, alla frustrazione ma soprattutto alla ripetitività.

    Gioco da acquistare solo sotto i 15 euro    … Expand
  42. Cobrax657
    Jun 5, 2022
    5
    fine game but very very bad controls feels like playing a 1998 game or worst
  43. 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.
  44. RoOka18
    Oct 20, 2014
    4
    Dear Bethesda,

    I downloaded this game from a torrent site. Why? Because of id Tech 5. I got myself fooled into this engine two times (Rage and Wolfenstein TNO). Let's talk about these: both games are GREAT, especially Wolfenstein. And they are destroyed, only because of id Tech 5. Now you successfully ruined The Evil Within on the PC with that unusable game engine. My problems with    Dear Bethesda,

    I downloaded this game from a torrent site. Why? Because of id Tech 5. I got myself fooled into this engine two times (Rage and Wolfenstein TNO). Let's talk about these: both games are GREAT, especially Wolfenstein. And they are destroyed, only because of id Tech 5. Now you successfully ruined The Evil Within on the PC with that unusable game engine.

    My problems with it:

    - the games are horribly big for nothing
    - the system requirements are unreal for the graphics
    - speaking of unreal, UE 3 looks a million times better
    - games with id Tech 5 are nearly unplayable on AMD cards

    So. I pre-ordered The Evil Within at first, than I looked at its requirements. They were pretty high, but since i don't believe these I checked the engine (yes, because of Bethesda as the publisher). As soon as I saw that it uses id Tech 5 I cancelled my pre-order, and I really hope a lot of people will ask for refunds for this catastrophe. The PC version is basically unplayable. Because of the technical issues I was not able to try the game. No matter what I set in the options it won't go higher that 15-17 FPS, as every id Tech 5 games. That makes the game pointless to play.

    I know that my 60$ won't do any damage to a publisher like Bethesda, but I'm really happy that I downloaded this game from torrent. My 60$ is not burned this way.    … Expand
  45. Smuggly
    Dec 26, 2014
    4
    This could have and yet still might be a great game, currently it is not.

    The controls are extremely unresponsive and the key bindings are terrible. The letterbox screen is terrible. The frame rate is terrrible. The graphics have some nice style, but should have been a lot better. It's a very, very average console port and it's current state is a not worth paying a cent for, demo    This could have and yet still might be a great game, currently it is not.

    The controls are extremely unresponsive and the key bindings are terrible.
    The letterbox screen is terrible.
    The frame rate is terrrible.
    The graphics have some nice style, but should have been a lot better.

    It's a very, very average console port and it's current state is a not worth paying a cent for, demo is out, play that and make your own decision. I love survival horror, but this game isn't worthy.    … Expand
  46. Prfct
    Oct 25, 2014
    4
    I'll completely ignore the fact that the game is locked to 30fps and has 2 black bars but I'm gonna be honest about it, this game is **** and not because of those limitations.

    First of all the game is unnecesary stretched. There are 15 chapters in the game and absolutely nothing important happens from chapter 2 to 8, they play like naruto fillers... there may be some interesting    I'll completely ignore the fact that the game is locked to 30fps and has 2 black bars but I'm gonna be honest about it, this game is **** and not because of those limitations.

    First of all the game is unnecesary stretched. There are 15 chapters in the game and absolutely nothing important happens from chapter 2 to 8, they play like naruto fillers... there may be some interesting sequence once or twice but it could have been condensed in one or two chapters, not 7.

    Chapter 1 is great for setting up the game and really hypes you but after that the game becomes generic third person number 999 with uninsteresting locales like: demolished castle, demolished asylum, demolished sewers and demolished etcetera,

    Chapter 2 to 8 don't deserve any kind of review... really... I think for the first time in chapter 6 someone talks and asks the question they should have asked like 10 chapters ago: what's happening, where are we? etc... funnily enough no one answers.

    Chapter 9 is excellent and it is what the whole game should have been, it has puzzles and great atmosphere, suspense and tension.

    Chapters 10 to 15 are ok... although the ending is ridiculous and so so bad it is not even funny.

    Biggest problem with the game is from the start you know **** is not happening because the story makes no sense and even after finishing it... it still makes no sense. We get glimpses of Castellano's family story through a diary but it doesn't have any kind of impact on the story and the things we learn about rubik are cool but experiments are not explained and we don't know who is working for who or why... it really feels like the game is incomplete lorewise and I'm sure they plan to milk people with DLC, lol.

    Instant Death is horrible and sequences sometimes feel like Dragon's Lair... a tense situation quickly becomes boring and tedious and it really screws with the general atmosphere, you know something is wrong when instead of slowly opening doors you're kicking them open while charging with almost unlimited ammo shooting everything in the head.

    Graphics are really good and character progression (through skills) feels good except for some useless skills like melee... but in the end this game is a mediocre third person shooter, not a survival, that will not scare anyone but children... and will not hold anyone's attention with its stupid lack of story.

    It's like this people really forgot what makes a horror game great: suspense, tension and exploration.

    Shinji retire... or make a whole new game like chapter 9.    … Expand
  47. infin
    Nov 15, 2014
    4
    The Evil Within had a lot of potential. The story centres around a generic type detective who, upon attending the scene of an asylum which has been subjected to an unexplained revolt by its inmates, is drawn inside the asylum to investigate. He is instead captured by the force within and must survive through a range of horrifying and deadly encounters not of this world.

    The problem    The Evil Within had a lot of potential. The story centres around a generic type detective who, upon attending the scene of an asylum which has been subjected to an unexplained revolt by its inmates, is drawn inside the asylum to investigate. He is instead captured by the force within and must survive through a range of horrifying and deadly encounters not of this world.

    The problem with the PC game is that it constantly crashes for me and the frame of view is weird with top and bottom black movie-type banners. Perhaps best to wait to get this one in the bargain bin/Steam sale. Hopefully by that they will have patched all the bugs.    … Expand
  48. Jetpil0t
    Oct 16, 2014
    4
    Unfortunately this is a poor quality port of a reasonably good game.

    If you enjoyed any of the Resident Evil games you will know what to expect and quite certainly enjoy what is on offer here. If you look at the finer points of the level, enemy and overall gameplay design you will start to notice while this is a solid survival horror game, the overall design and execution is a little    Unfortunately this is a poor quality port of a reasonably good game.

    If you enjoyed any of the Resident Evil games you will know what to expect and quite certainly enjoy what is on offer here. If you look at the finer points of the level, enemy and overall gameplay design you will start to notice while this is a solid survival horror game, the overall design and execution is a little rough around the edges and becoming a little dated. Still an enjoyable game, but likely only if you already a fan of the genre.

    On PC however, this is a really poor quality port. The framerate is locked to 30fps, aspect ratio and FOV are both locked and the framerate is both poor and inconsistent.
    You can boost the framerate to 60fps by enabling the console, however this has various problems associated with it. Various environmental effects are noticeably still rendered at 30fps, you will get noticeable frame time and stuttering issues, as well the game struggles to stay above 60fps consistently even at only 1080p. Despite the use of a high end graphics card, you will still experience poor performance as the game underutilizes the GPU, as well it is has horribly unoptimized multi-threaded CPU performance to boot.
    Altering the aspect ratio reduces the effective FOV and you cannot increase the FOV, leaving very little adjustment available here.
    The Ultra Wide aspect ratio also will not display full screen on Ultra Wide displays, which is especially horrid as you end up with black bars on top and on the side of your screen.
    The game also crashes infrequently throughout.

    I would recommend this on PS4 or Xbox One, but the framerate drops away from 30fps quite often. So while on one hand I wouldn't recommend this game on PC, as a PC game, I would still recommend it over the console counterparts. Load times on the PC are significantly faster and you will be able to maintain a steady 30fps at a native 1080p with a reasonably powerful PC, just expect to have virtually no level of customization and essentially a console style experience from top to bottom.    … Expand
  49. vladapn
    Oct 21, 2014
    4
    Like most users say - bad screen aspect ratio and 30fps eclipse almost everything good with this game...
    It killed it for me, at least....
    4/10 i don't recommend
  50. SuperkenGaming
    Aug 9, 2017
    4
    The evil Within
    This isn’t going to be pretty
    The Evil Within is a 3rd person survival horror game where you play as detective Sebastian investigating a scene of a mass murder at a mental hospital and then all of a sudden things start going crazy… I don’t want to spoil the story but the games setting is actually a pretty cool twist.. But for the most part at least in the beginning the    The evil Within
    This isn’t going to be pretty
    The Evil Within is a 3rd person survival horror game where you play as detective Sebastian investigating a scene of a mass murder at a mental hospital and then all of a sudden things start going crazy…
    I don’t want to spoil the story but the games setting is actually a pretty cool twist..
    But for the most part at least in the beginning the game mixes settings and scenery up…
    In fact the first half of this game is great and guaranteed this game a spot on my game of the year least when the time came.. but it didn’t stay this great…
    As a survival horror game youre managing your health with pick ups.. your health will regenerate but only slightly.. and when your health is bwelow a certain point you move slowly and aren’t able to run…
    But a bit like the game alone in the dark you have weapons here… as you progress the game youll get a pistol, shotgun, sniper rifle, a cross bow like weapon, there are grenades.. a great variety of weapons for survival and devent drop rate of ammo.. but just enough to keep you staying carful with what you use..
    Unique from most survival horror games is that there is an assassins creed like stealth mechanic where you can take out most unaware enemies from behind..
    you also have to stealth to disarm traps and get parts the craft cross bolts for your bow…
    there are also jars of brain juice around the levels and off of enemies that act as a currency you use to upgrade your stats, buy ammo, and increase the stats of your weapons..
    There are mirrors that take you back to the hospital this allows you to save the game as well, but the game will ocassionally autosave
    The first half of the game I found to be really enjoyable and terrifying..
    I was stressed in a good way and enemies put up a great challenge…
    Missions were varied, I felt like I was in a movie..
    And then halfway through the game it starts to fall apart..
    The game goes from being scary to just frustrating..
    Its becomes an anxiety fest of dealing with insta kill enemies, and recourse draining section after recouce draining section.. dealing with spongy bosses, having to thow switch after switch doing it multiple times in the same area to pregress further…
    The games initial near perfect progression crumbles and stumbles to a crawl…
    Made worse by this games awful checkpoint and autosave system…
    The game wont constantly autosave once you find an important item…
    And again there are cheap instakill enemies and moments in this game…
    They are sometimes completely random, they’ll hit you and you have to go through the 10 minutes of recollecting supplies over and over and over until you get lucky enough to either get away or not activate this random spawn…
    And also again… the 2nd half of this game is focused more on anxiety than it is horror..
    its not fun replaying these anxiety filled moments
    They aren’t even fun the first time…
    And the games 2nd half is filled of these moments and trial and error chases with no indication of what you have to do, so you just keep doing it until you get it right with no checkpoints..
    But still I pushed forward.. I was overlooking all of the bad because of the intriguing story going through this anxiety fest…
    The game would freeze on my a couple of times causeing me to resatart it… no big deal, ill forgive it.. the first half was so good and im so close to this games end..
    8 and a half hours into the game.. im on chapter 11 out of 15.. about 2 and a half to 3 hours away from this games credits.. and I run into a game breaking bug…
    That’s right… 3 years later… a Bethesda game (go figure) still has a game breaking bug…
    I did play the ps3 version of this game and thought that’s clearly the problem.. so I went to google and no.. this chapter is full of game breaking bugs, more than just the one I ran into that wouldn’t let me progress the game..
    I was an hr deep and nothing I did helped, shutting down the game, reloading checkpoints..
    dying.. nothing… the game wouldn’t let me progress…
    The only thing keeping me from just giving this game a 0 and walking away is that restarting the chapter could’ve probably let me continue.. but once more..
    the 2nd half of this game is filled of anxiety, frustration and cheapness…
    I wasn’t about to go through that hour and a half I just went through again..
    Im walking away from what I thought was initially a great game that crumbled into a good game, but left me with the taste of a bad game…
    I give the Evil Within
    a very generous
    4/10    … Expand
  51. Rushrush2meyayo
    Dec 24, 2014
    4
    What I liked:
    - the creativity and imagination poured into this game is unsurpassed
    - the protagonist reminded me of a certain John Marston - game was very stable - the ending.. at long last What I disliked: - saving the game is very cumbersome and painful - ammo is very scarce that I ended up using the clunky melee attack more than I'd use guns - the handgun/magnum is    What I liked:
    - the creativity and imagination poured into this game is unsurpassed
    - the protagonist reminded me of a certain John Marston
    - game was very stable
    - the ending.. at long last

    What I disliked:
    - saving the game is very cumbersome and painful
    - ammo is very scarce that I ended up using the clunky melee attack more than I'd use guns
    - the handgun/magnum is horrendously inaccurate
    - early encounter with Ruvik is nothing but nuisance
    - some portions where the game locks your camera at a certain angles can be very disorienting
    - very poor visibility in dark areas
    - extreme visual effects can make your eyes and head hurt in epileptic proportion
    - inconsistent damage from fire

    A marriage between Resident evil and Silent Hill, with The Matrix as venue - an experiment gone wrong.

    The game is peppered with cheap traps, cheap deaths, mediocre scares, levers and cranks, and distasteful visual effects that leave your head and eyes hurting.

    The only horror to you'd face here is that curiosity got the better of you to pickup the game.    … Expand
  52. Nizidramaniyt
    Aug 14, 2015
    4
    + Few hours of decent horror surprise elements
    + Not too much ammunition

    -PC port gone wrong. Know your target audience and don´t try to make something for everyone.
  53. CharlyPlayman
    Dec 26, 2015
    4
    The game starts interesting but then it goes into a disappointing story nothing related with the beginning. I was hoping much more of this game. It's like RE4 but very far from be a funny game as that.
    Cons: technically it's well done + the starting
    Pros: bad story + the screen game is narrow and very close (sometimes you can't see what is happening) + the camera is totally manual + no    The game starts interesting but then it goes into a disappointing story nothing related with the beginning. I was hoping much more of this game. It's like RE4 but very far from be a funny game as that.
    Cons: technically it's well done + the starting
    Pros: bad story + the screen game is narrow and very close (sometimes you can't see what is happening) + the camera is totally manual + no maps (several times you don't know where to have to go) + etc    … Expand
  54. Vulfie
    Dec 18, 2015
    4
    A truly fantastic video game, who's full potential is lost amongst a miasma of corporate-publisher bulls**t, extremely low quality testing and 'questionable' design decisions.

    For every one thing this game does right, there are 10 things it did wrong. It's visually impressive with an amazing atmosphere, but it runs like crap. It can be set to 60FPS, but it's made immediately clear that    A truly fantastic video game, who's full potential is lost amongst a miasma of corporate-publisher bulls**t, extremely low quality testing and 'questionable' design decisions.

    For every one thing this game does right, there are 10 things it did wrong. It's visually impressive with an amazing atmosphere, but it runs like crap. It can be set to 60FPS, but it's made immediately clear that it was never meant to do that, resulting in nasty screen tear and other visual issues. It's more than happy to crash on you and save points are few and far between for most of the game. A mild checkpoint system kicks in eventually, all too late I might add. The characters look good and have fine animations, but the dialogue between them is stiff and unnatural. Nobody tries to make sense of what's going on, even though they are suppose to be police detectives.

    If you can get past the performance and character issues, then the Publisher issues kick in. It seems that this game was going to be much closer to Silent Hill and less like Resident Evil. This is demonstrated for most of the early game, I'd say at least the first 5 chapters. But I imagine Bethesda coming to Tango Gameworks and saying "A game that is not 90% combat is not going to sell, so put more combat in the game", because that's exactly what happened. From chapter 6 until the end of the game is a non-stop rollarcoaster of very, very bad combat sections. Suddenly it becomes obvious that the game wasn't built with combat in mind. Aiming a gun causes the camera to zoom in by a ridiculous amount, making aiming genuinely difficult in a game consisting mostly of tight and narrow levels. Melee is utterly useless, you've probably heard enough about that from others by now. Almost every boss in the game is a one-hit-kill to you if they get into range (I am not exaggerating, the bosses in this game are perhaps the worst bosses I've ever seen), and just like Resident Evil 6, they just keep coming back over and over again removing any sense of satisfaction from defeating them. To top this off, some of the weapons really get brokenly powerful if upgraded right. The Crossbow has bolts that can be upgraded to do 240% more damage per shot to enemies and cause them to catch fire, or stun every enemy in a room and leave them vulnerable to be stealth-killed (A single button) for up to 16 seconds. Yes, 16 seconds. This ammo can be manufactured by the player at will too. Please keep in mind, this is supposed to be a Survival Horror game, by a company well versed in this genre.

    But enough about the combat, carrying on with the Publisher bulls**t, some of the most powerful equipment in the game is pre-order bonus only, such as Incendiary Bolts. While most of the bolts in the game need to be upgraded to be useful, the Incendiary Bolts are instant-kills against any enemies, including groups in range and are extremely powerful against most bosses in the game too. The story is never explained well either. This is something else I'm sure you've heard many people complaining about, such as the deeply unsatisfying ending, but it is true. Character's never discuss the important parts of the game, and the story as a whole is full of loopholes. It smacks of bad writing, until you realize that the story was left this way intentionally because it's going to be explained in the future DLC. That's right, they're pulling the EA Tactic, buy the game now and then pay more later for the privilege of being allowed to experience the full story.

    Summary:

    If you really like character-action games in horror settings, like Resident Evil 4 or the Dead Space series, then stick with what you already have. This game is not the next big RE4. It will not deliver what you want.

    If you love Survival Horror games then The Evil Within is sure to disappoint. From its mounted-turret sections to its QTE's to its one-shot-kill recurring boss fights... It is just too crippled from it's performance and design issues and is just not satisfying to complete. Nothing happens in the end to make the struggle worth while.

    If you love Shinji Mikami, like I do, and want to follow his work then Resident Evil Remake has just been released in the form of a HD Remastered version. Pick that up instead.

    (EXTRA)

    I can also confirm that not only is the game crash-happy on PC, but also on PS4 as well (I didn't even know a PS4 could blue-screen crash, but apparently it can).

    In other news, I finally finished 2 of the 3 DLC packs for the game. The Assignment and The Consequence are quite a step up from the main game, they do more to explain the story and they are much shorter than the main game, which I feel is good. However they still suffer from many of the main games faults (Such as one-hit-kill bosses, single-use melee weapons, etc). I tried my best to play and finish the third DLC, The Executioner, but alas the game glitched out on me, spawned me in an empty black void and I was unable to proceed. I lack the motivation to try again.    … Expand
  55. stop9091
    Jan 8, 2017
    4
    A game with potential, marred by lack of polish.

    Between the many flaws mentioned, the camera is truly abysmal. As a player, you will constantly fight against it, which is paradoxical, since camera placement is a foundation of stealth gaming.

    It's a shame, because I liked the atmosphere.
  56. sunstorm76
    Nov 29, 2019
    4
    Got it on sale. It's pretty bad. I hate episodes in games and I don't like the pacing in this game at all. The walking and running is shaking and clunky all the time it gives me headache. This should be better than RE4? Really? What did the testers smoke?
  57. Antares8001
    Dec 15, 2018
    4
    When developers confuse oldschool with outdated, nostalgia quickly starts to turn into necrophilia which then results in a game like this.

    Here we have a survival horror game that apparently also wants to be a 3rd person shooter, which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing in it of itself, however unfortunately the scariest thing about it are not any of the monsters but rather the    When developers confuse oldschool with outdated, nostalgia quickly starts to turn into necrophilia which then results in a game like this.

    Here we have a survival horror game that apparently also wants to be a 3rd person shooter, which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing in it of itself, however unfortunately the scariest thing about it are not any of the monsters but rather the horrendously clunky controls, outdated graphics and gameplay mechanics.
    Alright then then, it is rather unimpressive on a technical level and the controls aren't amazing, which again wouldn't be the end of the world, as there have been plenty of games with clunky or outright bad controls that have become genre defining because the story made up for it. Unfortunately the Evil Within is not one of those games. Instead the poor graphics and clunky controls are accompanied by writing that feels like they hired an elementary schooler, embarrassingly dull characters that fail to make you relate, much less care about them at every turn possible, twists that M. Night Shyamalan would roll his eyes at and last but not least game design straight out of 2001. The overarching plot can best be described as pseudo-intellectual pretentious garbage that has been done better a hundred times over. And it actually manages to get even more nonsensical with every twist.

    Well to point out some good things the game has some creative visceral monster designs thrown in between the generic "definitely not zombies" and diverse similarly creative set-pieces. However it never manages to properly utilize any of them for the reasons stated above. Even the most creatively designed foe starts to become annoying rather than scary pretty quickly and even the most awe inspiring set-piece will make you sigh once you realize that you actually have to navigate through it.

    If this game came out in the early 2000s it might have competed with the Resident Evil series but the standards for horror and survival game design have significantly increased since and what would have been good back then is simply unacceptable nowadays. Overall this game leaves the impression that someone set out to create a supercut of the early Resident Evil games, without thinking the whole thing through. It adopts pretty much all of their weaknesses without improving or adding anything new. We're left with a game that feels like little more than a Shinji Mikami wankfest, that has no business being released in 2014    … Expand
  58. Lazzakz
    Aug 21, 2023
    4
    Have not played the sequel, but I hear it's a great improvement from this one. Some great ideas here and there, but nothing worth the whole playthrough.

    DECENT 4
  59. imalynxcat
    Aug 30, 2023
    4
    Optimizasyonu çok kötü, Bölüm tasarımları kötü, atmosferi ilgi çekici olsa da oynarken eğlenemedim.
  60. goodterling
    Nov 20, 2014
    3
    The choice to make your character LIMP through huge parts of the game is a deal breaker for me. It's just too slow to be fun. Also, it's like you're playing as someone's grandma. It's far easier to shoot a gun, dodge a haymaker punch, or just sprint for more than 2 seconds in REAL LIFE than in this game. Developers can increase difficulty through making tougher enemies or throughThe choice to make your character LIMP through huge parts of the game is a deal breaker for me. It's just too slow to be fun. Also, it's like you're playing as someone's grandma. It's far easier to shoot a gun, dodge a haymaker punch, or just sprint for more than 2 seconds in REAL LIFE than in this game. Developers can increase difficulty through making tougher enemies or through gimping your character. Choosing that 2nd option is a recipe for frustration.… Expand
  61. JunkmanUK
    Jan 24, 2015
    3
    Piss poor attempt at horror, cliched, over produced, too much unskippable dialog and forced pacing.

    Buy Outlast instead if you want a proper horror game.
  62. Tubey
    Oct 15, 2014
    3
    The real horror of this game lies in how scary bad the PC port is. Just incredible.

    Keybinding is a mess, and it feels like a constant fight against the games desire to be played with a controller. The frame rate is a joke at 30fps. Yes, it can be unlocked, but we shouldn't have to do that, it should be an option in the game, instead of a lazy port which requires you to be a techie    The real horror of this game lies in how scary bad the PC port is. Just incredible.

    Keybinding is a mess, and it feels like a constant fight against the games desire to be played with a controller.

    The frame rate is a joke at 30fps. Yes, it can be unlocked, but we shouldn't have to do that, it should be an option in the game, instead of a lazy port which requires you to be a techie to get the best out of it.

    The controls are outright bizarre. It's a difficult enough game as it is, but when you combine that with having to drag your mouse around like it's stuck in tar and it's a recipe for disaster, and you simply have to use a control to get anywhere close to the meat of the game.

    The game doesn't look too impressive either, certainly for a 2014 game. It feels like a game from the PS3 era. Frame rate drops are persistent too, camera angles throughout vary between making little sense to being utterly stupid in their placement, and this is one of the only games to give me an acute feeling of motion sickness throughout; when a game literally makes you feel like you're going to vomit, you know you've done something wrong.

    But for all that, there's a decent game lying underneath the problems. For PS4/XB1, this could very well be a good title on a platform which obviously demands controller support and therefore doesn't feel gimped by ONLY offering you that option, but PC gamers have different expectations and this title doesn't meet them in pretty much any way.    … Expand
  63. LXQUICKJUSTICE
    Feb 12, 2015
    3
    BORING. I've played a lot of games, challenging games, easy games, fun games and frustrating games, and this one most definitely falls into the latter category. The Evil Within is supposed to be scary, but it's ridiculously bad controls make it just excruciating to play. I tried enjoying this thing with a mouse and keyboard, an xbox 360 controller and even an xbox one controller, but theBORING. I've played a lot of games, challenging games, easy games, fun games and frustrating games, and this one most definitely falls into the latter category. The Evil Within is supposed to be scary, but it's ridiculously bad controls make it just excruciating to play. I tried enjoying this thing with a mouse and keyboard, an xbox 360 controller and even an xbox one controller, but the problem is the game, not the input device. The developers wasted an inordinate amount of time animating the player's movements to the point where normal actions like turning around, walking sideways and combat are painfully clumsy. To make matters worse, this game forces you into a bunch of stealth gameplay... That is in third person... Wow, now that sucks. Seriously? You have to decide whether you want to use your lantern to see what the heck you're doing but if you turn it on the monsters see you and ruin your day. Oh but you can't move around in the dark either, because some douchebag mischievously placed bear traps in every level that make you roll your eyes every time you step in one. But it gets even better. There are instant kill proximity bombs all over the place and as soon as they start beeping you're already dead. I said screw this game after the third time one of them blew me up. I could waste 1000 hours of my time trying to learn all the little tiny intricacies of this game just to be able to play it, but I've got to go to work and school. I don't want to play a game if it isn't fun. So to say things in another way, the Resident Evil 1 remastered remake on Steam has BETTER controls than the evil within. Now that's bad. The controls and terrible camera angles completely ruin this game. Enjoy.… Expand
  64. MixedFeelings
    Oct 14, 2014
    3
    Is this how you treat PC gamers? There is no way of playing this game in fullscreen if you have a ultrawide cinema display. You guys force 2.35:1 aspect ratio yet when I run the game on my 21:9 monitor I get black bars all around even when I have the resolution at 3440x1440 in settings. Removing the black bars with the console only remove the top and bottom bars. The game is still stuck atIs this how you treat PC gamers? There is no way of playing this game in fullscreen if you have a ultrawide cinema display. You guys force 2.35:1 aspect ratio yet when I run the game on my 21:9 monitor I get black bars all around even when I have the resolution at 3440x1440 in settings. Removing the black bars with the console only remove the top and bottom bars. The game is still stuck at 16:9 aspect ratio. Points lost.

    Why on earth would you cap the game to 30fps. I almost puked 20 minutes into the game. Not because of the gore but the motion sickness and low fps. Can be fixed in the console. The game should run at 60fps by default. Points lost.

    The only reason why I gave this game 3 points is because its a good game. I was really excited when I saw the trailer for this game. I love survival horror games but I have to be able to play it on my ultrawide monitor or it will lose its immersion.    … Expand
  65. Veska
    Oct 14, 2014
    3
    30 fps locker and "movies black stripe" for better playing? Really? It isn funny. This **** is so bad as the first version of Dark Souls on pc. I try to play with K+M and result? Terrible...Moving the cursor is the same as using analog on a contoller. This game on pc i so bad. In year 2014 we have graphic from year 2009, fps lock and other "feature"....If you want play it, buy it on30 fps locker and "movies black stripe" for better playing? Really? It isn funny. This **** is so bad as the first version of Dark Souls on pc. I try to play with K+M and result? Terrible...Moving the cursor is the same as using analog on a contoller. This game on pc i so bad. In year 2014 we have graphic from year 2009, fps lock and other "feature"....If you want play it, buy it on console. And if you want good horor game. Buy new Alien, Outlast or play older games from Resident series.… Expand
  66. peterf28
    Oct 31, 2014
    3
    very poor game . the first 30 minutes are OK, nice graphics, enigne demonstration, some monster, but then it get very boring. the surrounding is very dark, the story is somehow pooor ... i did not even finish the game . i was very interested in the ID software engine id tech 5 which this game uses, but i am very dissapointed .
  67. Fostin4
    Dec 31, 2014
    3
    It's a great horror game but it runs like crap on john carmacks abomination of a game engine called IDTech 5 with those same issues since ever..texture pop ins,low fps etc.Thank you john carmack.
  68. ProstoTelo
    Oct 16, 2014
    3
    The game is nice and scary but PC version is a total disaster. Black bars they are everywhere. Do not buy it if have PS or XBOX. Buy this game for the console instead.
  69. life234
    Oct 22, 2014
    3
    This game is ehhhhh.... Good concept and game play, but dear god what did you do to the PC version of this game!? Wide-screen view and locked frame rate! This game is 360 graphics by far and on steam it say the minimum requirements is an i7 processor? Get out of here with that crap, hopefully there is an HD update to fix this nonsense. Will play once that has been fixed and update my review.
  70. Jeek
    Nov 14, 2014
    3
    After the patch when you could put 60fps from options and really play fullscreen i decided to give this game second chance. I really tried but just couldn't really enjoy playing this, it wasn't fun. When you play good game, you don't want it to end, but must say that after 6th chapter i already was waiting this game to end.

    Plot is very confusing and not entertaining. Bossfights were    After the patch when you could put 60fps from options and really play fullscreen i decided to give this game second chance. I really tried but just couldn't really enjoy playing this, it wasn't fun. When you play good game, you don't want it to end, but must say that after 6th chapter i already was waiting this game to end.

    Plot is very confusing and not entertaining.
    Bossfights were boring.
    It's not fun to break every single barrel or vase and watch if you get more bullets or keys.
    And extra minus from Spider-Lady boss. Probably the most hated and the most frustrating boss in this century. Some people likes it, but i couldn't stand it.    … Expand
  71. HHHippo
    Nov 6, 2014
    3
    I thought it was just me that was getting motion sick from the 3rd person view, glad to read other people are having the same problem. I'm pretty disappointed with the controls too. Play the demo before you buy it.
  72. Rafael117
    Oct 20, 2015
    3
    "Next gen Game", remember that this is a game from the year Two Thousand and Fourteen.
    This is probably the MOST HONEST review you can have. You like the game? Buy it, but don't blame me for not warning you.
    - Next Generation 3rd Person View The game features horrible 3rd person view, an enemy is close to you, be ready to not be able to use your gun, because the game is absent of a    "Next gen Game", remember that this is a game from the year Two Thousand and Fourteen.
    This is probably the MOST HONEST review you can have. You like the game? Buy it, but don't blame me for not warning you.

    - Next Generation 3rd Person View
    The game features horrible 3rd person view, an enemy is close to you, be ready to not be able to use your gun, because the game is absent of a decent, offensive meele. Did i mention that you have a knife? You can't use it on close quarters wherever you need to.

    - The next generation AI, Part 1.
    Probably one of the worse I've seen in years, you've seen this kind of AI behavior on those good old early 2000's games, where the Npc just follows you like there were no walls, just a straight line, ignoring obstacles.

    - Next Generation Horror Game.
    Horror? Terrifying? Scary? Honestly you don't feel any kind of psychological fear, unless you eat some depressive drugs (alcohol, heroin...). Yes, you'll make a "ugh, ugly creepy boss" (the Keeper looks amazing) and that "oh not he's going to kill me" because you can't just aim at him because of the next gen 3rd person view. In short, it could be better. The horror part of this game is the rage due to bugs.

    - Next generation AI, Part 2. Difficulty is ok i guess, can be hard sometimes. For instance, you think you ave to hit that boss's eye some times, in order to trigger the next phase, when you just needs to spam grenades until it falls dead. There's people on the top reviews talking about how this game is so "old school", well...take a look at Metal Gear Solid bosses and how you just can't mindlessly spam Grenades or Pistol rounds in order to kill it, a game from like...1999?

    - Next Gen face rig/expression system: Characters have no emotions, their internal scream is clear (voice actors were ok), but nobody can save then from the almost-poker-faces they make. (please, watch Dead Space 2 acting, from characters to dialogues)

    This could be an amazing game, a Triple A masterpiece, something totally worth of a sequel and probably a movie. Those games you would play again next year, and maybe in the next year too. But no, unfinished game, looks like an Alpha version of a future great game that needs a serious mechanics fix.

    Btw the story is pretty interesting if you're into mind bending stuff, you know Psychology stuff, that's why it gets a 3.

    Want a good horror game? Play Dead Space, then play Dead Space 2.
    Bad port etc? Nah, it's just bad...    … Expand
  73. iseeall
    Dec 2, 2015
    2
    I only tried the demo but dropped it without even finishing because it was beyond annoying and nothing like scary. This isn't even a game, but a clumsy movie where you should be just sitting and watching without ever touching the keyboard. Every minute they take control away from you and show you yet another lengthy animated sequence. The Shift key is supposed to make the character run butI only tried the demo but dropped it without even finishing because it was beyond annoying and nothing like scary. This isn't even a game, but a clumsy movie where you should be just sitting and watching without ever touching the keyboard. Every minute they take control away from you and show you yet another lengthy animated sequence. The Shift key is supposed to make the character run but sometimes it doesn't work - sometimes it does - as the script pleases. The whole game feels like it has no generic gameplay mechanics at all, and all there is is an endless row of special places where you can do the only required things and that's all. No sense of freedom or even choice. The camera is placed at an awkward angle. It's never clear which objects can be interacted with and which can't. The gameplay is about entering a room, getting killed and by that guessing what the designer wanted you to do in that room, and doing just that upon reload. Pathetic.
    It's far, far from Silent Hill or Resident Evil. I have no idea who they made this game for. Still giving it 2 and not 0 because I see the great work artists have done there - unfortunately to no use.    … Expand
  74. SuperNaiv
    Oct 19, 2014
    2
    I was really looking forward to this game. I am real junkie of horror survival games and movies. Unfortunately this game is broken on pc. If you don't have Xbox controller, then stay the f**k out of this game. The k+m controls are imprecise. Another technical issue is 30 fps lock; witch makes game almost unplayable, in my opinion. What’s the f******g point buying high end graphic cards ifI was really looking forward to this game. I am real junkie of horror survival games and movies. Unfortunately this game is broken on pc. If you don't have Xbox controller, then stay the f**k out of this game. The k+m controls are imprecise. Another technical issue is 30 fps lock; witch makes game almost unplayable, in my opinion. What’s the f******g point buying high end graphic cards if game developers lock frame rate to 30 fps? And there is this annoying aspect ratio that really grinds my gears. WTF?! It looks retarded and plays retarded. What is worse is that even it is possible to "fix" those issues, with unlocking console controls; the game still plays like crap. The aspect ratio is 2.35:1, by default and by changing aspect ratio, so it is in "full screen" mode, I notice that frame rate dropped significantly and after changing to new aspect ratio, the main character in the game "gets bigger", so much that it almost covers half of the view in the game. It seems like the whole view in the game gets somehow "cropped" or "blown up" It doesn't look nice at all. But how is the game it self. Is it scary in any way? Does it have any interesting story? The game is developed by some Japanese dude and creator of RE series, as you all probably know that already. I never played any of those games so I was kind of new to this. But if this is how those games are, then I know I never will try them. The gameplay is awful and very uninspiring. The texture in the game are just ugly, it is simply awful looking game, and what is worse is that this game is badly optimized for pc and it plays like s***. Forget high frame rates! The game doesn't feel like a survival horror game. It feels more like some clunky survival game, were you must gather some green crap, by killing monsters, so that you can upgrade your character. And then, by some miracle you get more ammo storage, better weapon damage, etc,etc. I really didn't find this kind of upgrade system interesting in survival game. Some people may find it interesting. For me it felt like some kind of unnecessary distraction. Game gets very frustrating because you die a lot, and not because of some tactical mistake made in the game. It is because of this sh***y aspect ratio and controls and all the other technical issues. It is frustrating even to make precise aiming or have any kind of control over any situation. The controls and the aspect ratio really make this game difficult to play. I don't understand what were developers thinking when they decided to make this game so unplayable. What about characters? The main characters in game are boring and sometimes annoying. I didn't care about any of them. The dialogs are boring and just made me skip most of those looong movie cut scenes, which I hate in games. I buy game to be able to interact with it. If I want a movie, I can always watch something on Netflix. Games are made to be interactive. It isn't scary game either. Maybe there are some few cheap jump scares that will make babies and small children cry, but overall, the game isn't scary at all. Though, it is very gory, which may appeal to some folks out there. It feels more like a survival game then a horror game. Disappointing! How about the story? Is it any good? If it is difficult to connect emotionally to the main characters, then the story itself will be less interesting. I got very confused and had problems to get anything meaningful from the story. I felt they were jumping from place to place all the time and I lost track of what was the story about. In the end, I really didn't care. The only thing that I really liked was the creative design of all the enemies . Would I recommend this game to anyone? Not for pc! Don't buy this game for pc. You might regret it.… Expand
  75. Aventinus
    Oct 18, 2014
    2
    Don't let the title fool you ..this is Resident Evil 4.5, and probably came out about half a decade too late. First of all your probably have heard of all the technical setbacks this game is riddled with...my biggest gripe was with the FOV after changing the aspect ratio through the console...I could see some screen, but mostly a lot of ass. If I really wanted a to get a close up of aDon't let the title fool you ..this is Resident Evil 4.5, and probably came out about half a decade too late. First of all your probably have heard of all the technical setbacks this game is riddled with...my biggest gripe was with the FOV after changing the aspect ratio through the console...I could see some screen, but mostly a lot of ass. If I really wanted a to get a close up of a rear end of some guy I'd venture to a gay bar , with a magnifying glass in hand (vomit).

    This game was supposed to be scary, well it's far from it. Watching the Exorcism backwards on mute is much scarier, in fact, playing Kirby on a monochromatic gameboy is scarier. There's gratuitous amounts of blood though. Gallons and gallons of it. What we have here is a quantity over quality conundrum, so the only way this game is bound to scare you is if you're a hemophiliac.

    Maybe Mikami should get in touch with the developers at Creative Assembly to get some pointers on how a scary game should be made. In fact , if I was Japanese I'd try to lure him into one of those Japanese prank shows, where they scare the living bejesus out of the participants. He deserves it, because he's released such a disappointing schlock of a game that I waited months to come out only to be kicked in the teeth by a steaming turd boot and splashed with 3893829829283 liters of HIV infected blood.

    So in the vein of conan o' brien (clueless gamer)...If a high score was a possessed ghoulish pasty white girl with a rotating head, and a really bad score was a chainsaw wielding inbred brute suffering from acromegaly. Then this game is a little girl that's lost in the woods; she's soiled herself and she's crying for mommy to come save her.    … Expand
  76. FantasicGamer
    Oct 14, 2014
    2
    If you want to ask about the quality of such PC port, this game only worth a zero. Many reviewers already mention the reasons, I won't repeat these.

    The graphic quality of this game is sub-par. Do you still remember the Wolfenstein New World Order? Yes, the game has the same engine as this game. So, what's the problem? Bulky game size with a blurry and low quality texture in game even    If you want to ask about the quality of such PC port, this game only worth a zero. Many reviewers already mention the reasons, I won't repeat these.

    The graphic quality of this game is sub-par. Do you still remember the Wolfenstein New World Order? Yes, the game has the same engine as this game. So, what's the problem? Bulky game size with a blurry and low quality texture in game even with all graphic settings maxed out.

    The game play elements bring nothing new to the table, e.g. some collectibles to collect for upgrading player ability, stealth-oriented game play with insufficient ammo. Generally the game play style is just like the last of us, but with a dull and boring plot. If the terror elements of the story was on par with those classic Silent Hill, then this game could be great. However, the plot element is so thin and the atmosphere is so weak due to repetitive environment and lack in story depiction. So players are left with WTH is going on here most of the game.

    Finally, the game play time for this game is short. Some chapters may only last around 15 to 30 mins. If you are experienced gamer and good at stealth, you probably can beat the game within 5 hours.    … Expand
  77. sisho
    Oct 17, 2014
    2
    First things first. The Evil Within IS a crappy port. And keep in mind it's that kind of gamebreaking crappy port, like most of the "AAA" titles this year. This one tough has a pathetic excuse for being broken as the developers said: it's "design choices".

    Technical difficulties apart, there's the actual gameplay. The Evil Within is a cheesy action tittle with some stealth elements that    First things first. The Evil Within IS a crappy port. And keep in mind it's that kind of gamebreaking crappy port, like most of the "AAA" titles this year. This one tough has a pathetic excuse for being broken as the developers said: it's "design choices".

    Technical difficulties apart, there's the actual gameplay. The Evil Within is a cheesy action tittle with some stealth elements that tries in all the wrong ways resemble to the 00's survival horrors. It does have plenty of gore and dangerous creatures, asylum or abandoned towns settings, but it ends there. The deformed creatures are nothing but boring. There's no psychological horror or mystery, just a straightforward linear action/stealth gore. You know everything that's going on from the moment you see it. The atmosphere created is so graphically explicit that has no substantial horror in it.

    You should download the game instead of buying because It is not worth the price, the developers does not deserve the support and you will get tired pretty soon and delete it, forgetting it ever existed.    … Expand
  78. GamersLife
    Oct 15, 2014
    2
    One game i really looked forward to.
    but sadly it was a big let down.
    30 or 60fps doesnt matter, the story and gameplay is... well boring.
    its mediocre at best.. and sadly not worth the money.
    Survival horror without the horror, but just alot of "zombie" splatter
    I will say that the damage the monsters take is really cool

    So sad to see this game fail
  79. PCMasterRaceFTW
    Oct 19, 2014
    2
    Let me start off with saying that this is a terrible port , my overclocked r9 290 should be able to run this at a constant 60fps without drops no sweat .

    2nd of all you have to go on stem activate the console and type in these 2 commands every time before you play r_swapinterval -1 and r_forceaspectratio 0 , in order to make it a bit more playable but that is still not enough the r9    Let me start off with saying that this is a terrible port , my overclocked r9 290 should be able to run this at a constant 60fps without drops no sweat .

    2nd of all you have to go on stem activate the console and type in these 2 commands every time before you play r_swapinterval -1 and r_forceaspectratio 0 , in order to make it a bit more playable but that is still not enough the r9 290 oc should never go below 50 fps regardless of what is happening . Also you cant change FoV , i think the camera is too close to the person , and of course the graphics look nothing special . This is just like shadow of mordor which require 6gb of VRAM in order to max out . I dont even understand why pc games have to be ported from console even though it should be the opposite .    … Expand
  80. Heller78
    Jan 8, 2018
    2
    PLEASE STOP MAKING GAMES LIKE THIS... YOU ARE WASTING YOUR MONEY FOR "PRODUCTION" OF THIS GAME AND ALSO OUR MONEY AND TIME... there is such good but few horror moments WASTED with so meaningless loot boxes and action sequences that you want to kill yourself... i get it its like res4 but filled with buggy controls, dumb action, amazingly poor melee attacks, poor characters development andPLEASE STOP MAKING GAMES LIKE THIS... YOU ARE WASTING YOUR MONEY FOR "PRODUCTION" OF THIS GAME AND ALSO OUR MONEY AND TIME... there is such good but few horror moments WASTED with so meaningless loot boxes and action sequences that you want to kill yourself... i get it its like res4 but filled with buggy controls, dumb action, amazingly poor melee attacks, poor characters development and out of space bomb traps and gameplay mechanics... PLEASE IF YOU HAVE ANY TALENT LEFT FOR MAKING SOMETHING UNIQUE OR AT LEAST SOMETHING MEMORABLE STOP (STOP). yes, STOP MAKING DUMB **** ACTION **** SEQUENCES WHERE YOU KILL 200 ZOMBIES WHOSE AI IS DUMBER THAN THIS JAPANESE FOLLOWER ( I DONT KNOW HIS NAME AND I DONT CARE )... you have such talent for horror dont waste it on the sequel..… Expand
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  82. Fuz
    Oct 29, 2014
    1
    Yet another game with that awful, awful shoulder camera. It's sort of a new trend in gaming that I can't tolerate. It makes me feel unbalanced and sick, I have problems aiming, moving around and going straight with it.

    I wish developers would just stick with a perfectly fine and functional centered camera (or at least gave us the option to choose). It works way better.
  83. Joe_Friday
    Oct 26, 2014
    1
    A poorly made rehash of Resident Evil 4. Most of the levels even look like the same Balkan village of RE4. The graphics are dull and dated, video aspect ratio is awful, and the controls are a clumsy port from a console. This game is an unplayable disaster that is not even worth picking up on sale in the bargain bin.
  84. Koudelkate
    Mar 18, 2015
    1
    Definitely NOT a survival horror.
    Not even a horror game.
    Poor storytelling. You spend your time to don't know what you're doing and why you need to do it. Poor level design. You spend your time to don't know where you are or where you go. You feel lost every-time, and, actually, you are. Enemies are awful, they're buggy and have terrible collisions. You spend your time fighting bosses,    Definitely NOT a survival horror.
    Not even a horror game.
    Poor storytelling. You spend your time to don't know what you're doing and why you need to do it.
    Poor level design. You spend your time to don't know where you are or where you go. You feel lost every-time, and, actually, you are. Enemies are awful, they're buggy and have terrible collisions. You spend your time fighting bosses, one after the other, like in a beat'em'all. You cannot play 5 minutes without having an enemy jumping in front of you.
    Poor game design. No, this it not like "old survival horror games". There is a huge difference between having not much ammo and dodging enemies, and having no ammo and being forced to kill every single enemy. Enemies see you, even when you don't see them. Doors are closed until you killed everyone. Enemies loot stuff.
    That's not fun at all.
    That's a terrible game, and it fails in so many ways.    … Expand
  85. Sky-Moondrift
    Dec 6, 2014
    1
    TEW ranks pretty highly as one of the worst PC ports ever made.

    Not a bad game, but it wreaks of console exclusive feature sets and restrictive linear systems, not to mention the game plays like utter tripe. Looks like Bethesda have joined the ranks of developers that don't give a toss about PC gamers. They put minimal effort into porting this, to the point you need to use cracked    TEW ranks pretty highly as one of the worst PC ports ever made.

    Not a bad game, but it wreaks of console exclusive feature sets and restrictive linear systems, not to mention the game plays like utter tripe. Looks like Bethesda have joined the ranks of developers that don't give a toss about PC gamers.

    They put minimal effort into porting this, to the point you need to use cracked executables and other third-party tools just to get the game to run properly.

    It's has horrible PC optimization- FPS in many areas can be as low as 20 fps using an overclocked i7-3770k and 2 x GTX-980 Strix cards. There is no support for widescreen aspect ratios, even with the console hack. You have to use Flawless widescreen to run at fullscreen.

    Controls are terrible, you can't bind keys properly and there is extremely bad mouse lag in menus/inventory, very frustrating. The control system itself is clunky and your character bumbles and staggers around, it's made strictly for a gamepad.

    I bought it on sale and I still feel ripped off, but more importantly I feel like i'm being treated like a gullible fool by the developer. We PC gamers are just an afterthought, yet we pay full prices for these sloppy-seconds.

    If I could go back I would probably have just downloaded it.    … Expand
  86. Celtish
    Oct 18, 2014
    1
    Absolutely horrendous. I had little to no knowledge about the game prior to playing so I didn't know what expect. Nor did I have high or low expectations.
    I had watched the trailer for it but that's about it.
    The graphics are terrible, the gameplay is stale and repetitive, the AI is appalling, and even after 90 minutes of playing I'm not the least bit interested in the story. If you can    Absolutely horrendous. I had little to no knowledge about the game prior to playing so I didn't know what expect. Nor did I have high or low expectations.
    I had watched the trailer for it but that's about it.
    The graphics are terrible, the gameplay is stale and repetitive, the AI is appalling, and even after 90 minutes of playing I'm not the least bit interested in the story. If you can even call it a story...
    The game is incredibly vague and not even slightly engaging. I was more annoyed than anything.
    It's almost 2015... we're way beyond this standard of game development.
    To summarize, it's nothing we haven't seen before and it's about as scary as a carebear.    … Expand
  87. MadJaples
    Feb 19, 2015
    1
    First sneak kill was not a sneak kill.

    Instant kill with game. Don't tell me it's going to be a sneak kill when the guy just turns around and chops your damn head off, you dumb f**king idiot devs. Not recommended. Godawful frame rate on a high end system. No I will not bother with patches. IF you cannot be arsed to produce a game that doesn't work properly first time around, I    First sneak kill was not a sneak kill.

    Instant kill with game.

    Don't tell me it's going to be a sneak kill when the guy just turns around and chops your damn head off, you dumb f**king idiot devs.

    Not recommended. Godawful frame rate on a high end system. No I will not bother with patches. IF you cannot be arsed to produce a game that doesn't work properly first time around, I will not recommend it, I will not give it good marks, I will not suggest that my friends go out and buy a copy.

    You screwed up. Bethesda, stick to your damn Elder Scrolls ffs.    … Expand
  88. mulder2play
    Oct 16, 2014
    1
    Was waiting for a nice scare and wasn't disappointed.

    Black bars don't let you see any detail on the monitor and when removed, the image's zoomed in. The character is so close to your eyeball it makes you dizzy in a matter of seconds. When removing the black bars with the help of the debug console the aiming is offset so you no longer shoot where your crosshair is. Niiiice!    Was waiting for a nice scare and wasn't disappointed.

    Black bars don't let you see any detail on the monitor and when removed, the image's zoomed in. The character is so close to your eyeball it makes you dizzy in a matter of seconds.

    When removing the black bars with the help of the debug console the aiming is offset so you no longer shoot where your crosshair is. Niiiice!

    Although the game can be unlocked to 60 FPS, I can only imagine incompetence on the developer's side for this initial setting.

    The PC development skills on the japanese developers are low to none. There are plenty of examples with extremely bad PC ports lately.    … Expand
  89. Chud_Moofin
    Oct 14, 2014
    1
    Although our expectations of "The Evil Within" were low, they turned out to be even too high for this disaster of a game. Not only does this game have the 30fps lock that Bethesda did say (which I might add you can change with some console commands), but the aspect ratio is messed up to begin with, also fix-able, but it should be a setting, not something you have to "fix" per-say. I willAlthough our expectations of "The Evil Within" were low, they turned out to be even too high for this disaster of a game. Not only does this game have the 30fps lock that Bethesda did say (which I might add you can change with some console commands), but the aspect ratio is messed up to begin with, also fix-able, but it should be a setting, not something you have to "fix" per-say. I will say that the graphics did look nice, though the brightness slider in the beginning wasn't accurate at all, even after I "cheated" a bit and made it a bit brighter than was suggested, I still couldn't see anything in some scenarios.

    The gameplay, however, was drab, and boring. Not much fun at all, nor t he least bit scary. It seems to have tried to take the sneaking aspect from games like Outlast or Amnesia, but the AI doesn't function well enough to make the game scary. I'd often find myself hiding out under a bed for five minutes, only to get out when the killer walked away, but have to return to my hiding place when he turned right back around and resumed the same post.    … Expand
  90. StarWing
    Oct 20, 2014
    1
    Sorry Mikami but this Game is ****
    Where the is the Horror in this Game ?
    Chapter 1-7 No Story
    7-12 Game play is good, but Story ?
    12 - 15 Call of Evil like.
    The only good thing on this is Ammo is rare,
    but therefor the last cahpters Full of Action.
    It does not more than Resi 5 and 6,
    Monsters with Maschiene Guns
  91. davefu
    Dec 2, 2014
    1
    Terrible optimization issues. Just downloaded the demo on Steam, and couldn't play for more than 5 minutes. I5 2500K 4,5GHZ, Nvidia GTX 970. Clunky framerate. Even in the main menu the mouse lags. Stay away from this **** and from this horde of non optimized releases.
  92. shambles1980
    Dec 18, 2014
    1
    very slugish and underwhelming game play, controlls that cannot be edited to preference, and forced aspect ratios are among the issues with this "game" forced "press this button repetedly to do a basic task, gameplay features also are an issue. then you have the fact that the game just feels horrible. i reduced all the settings to minimum thinking it had to be a hardware issue.. but it isvery slugish and underwhelming game play, controlls that cannot be edited to preference, and forced aspect ratios are among the issues with this "game" forced "press this button repetedly to do a basic task, gameplay features also are an issue. then you have the fact that the game just feels horrible. i reduced all the settings to minimum thinking it had to be a hardware issue.. but it is not. that is just how the game play is. I would not reccomend this game to any one. if you want a decent survival horror type game, you should look at alien isolation. this game is a huge dissapointment from a person who brought some of my fave survival horror games to life. it is a shame.… Expand
  93. Fenarid
    Oct 14, 2014
    0
    30 fps ? pathetic. Game is frustrating, repetitive or held back by technical issues and poor, dated games design. Don't make games if u don't know how.
  94. Elco32
    Oct 30, 2014
    0
    If you have played Bethesda Cthulhu game - this port is equally as bad. It does not deserve your money. I normally think 0 scores are BS, but in this case I think Bethesda is trying to rip you off. Like they ripped me off on their Cthulhu port.
  95. theNILE
    Oct 14, 2014
    0
    No lip sync, poor graphics, some awkward moments, and I don't know why but some animations are missing or don't appear. It tries to be a mix of Silent Hill and Resident Evil and was clearly influenced by those horror games, but isn't ashamed to point it out. I really can't take this game seriously. Some of the jump-scares are good and sometimes the atmosphere is good but it is quicklyNo lip sync, poor graphics, some awkward moments, and I don't know why but some animations are missing or don't appear. It tries to be a mix of Silent Hill and Resident Evil and was clearly influenced by those horror games, but isn't ashamed to point it out. I really can't take this game seriously. Some of the jump-scares are good and sometimes the atmosphere is good but it is quickly ruined by pretty much any encounter. Zero polish, clearly a crappy port.… Expand
  96. clarky
    Oct 24, 2014
    0
    30fps, a cheap console port. If you are going to take a console game, and say "lets just make it for the pc to sell it pretty much for free on our part" expect these reviews and no less.
  97. beladrim
    Oct 16, 2014
    0
    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME ON PC!

    It's a great game and a true successor to RE4. But this game should not have made to the pc platform in its current state. The controls are clunky and unresponsive, you can't bind keys properly and the default keybinding doesn't make any **** sense. If you have a next gen console like the PS4 or the XBONE. Buy this game on one of these and enjoy. On    DO NOT BUY THIS GAME ON PC!

    It's a great game and a true successor to RE4. But this game should not have made to the pc platform in its current state.

    The controls are clunky and unresponsive, you can't bind keys properly and the default keybinding doesn't make any **** sense.

    If you have a next gen console like the PS4 or the XBONE. Buy this game on one of these and enjoy.

    On PC however, stay AWAY from this garbabe port.

    My rating is based on the pc version alone, not the game overall.    … Expand
  98. Jridgen
    Oct 19, 2014
    0
    To be clear this game is awesome, but I will be repurchasing this on PS4 and looking to get refund for my PC copy if an upcoming patch does not fix the constant crashing issues on my computer. I don't have any other game that crashes my computer the way this one does. I even tried reinstalling STEAM, nothing works. I have a 4770K, GTX 770 with 4GB, an SSD and 16 GB of system RAM! ItTo be clear this game is awesome, but I will be repurchasing this on PS4 and looking to get refund for my PC copy if an upcoming patch does not fix the constant crashing issues on my computer. I don't have any other game that crashes my computer the way this one does. I even tried reinstalling STEAM, nothing works. I have a 4770K, GTX 770 with 4GB, an SSD and 16 GB of system RAM! It should certainly be enough to run this without problems.

    It used to crash about once per chapter, but now I am on chapter 6 (or 7, I forget), it crashes every 5 minutes and I cannot even complete a section.

    The gameplay is awesome, the atmosphere is great, the graphics aren't great, but the effects are okay and Shinji did a good job retaining the awesome elements from RE4 and adding to the forumla. If only I could play the game reliably I would rate it a 9.    … Expand
  99. Diablo92
    Oct 23, 2014
    0
    Just the graphics are the only thing that's amazing. I'm not impressed at all in the story(seen the end in a let's play video). There is a FPS limit set to 30. You need a computer worth as much as $3,000 with two GFX cards each with 3GB and the best ASUS motherboard with an SSD and the 2011 socket intel processor and atleast 8GB(would recommend more) of system ram to make the game runJust the graphics are the only thing that's amazing. I'm not impressed at all in the story(seen the end in a let's play video). There is a FPS limit set to 30. You need a computer worth as much as $3,000 with two GFX cards each with 3GB and the best ASUS motherboard with an SSD and the 2011 socket intel processor and atleast 8GB(would recommend more) of system ram to make the game run smooth on everything high.

    I can't recommend this... middle earth shadow of mordor i gave a shot and I liked it better but that was from just 10 minutes of gaming.    … Expand
  100. RealCritical
    Oct 21, 2014
    0
    60€, 30fps base (you can unlock it but newbies don't know how), not good gameplay, so, why the hell does this game cost 60€? Are we crazy? This should cost 15€.
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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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