The Evil Within

 Xbox 360
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 307 Ratings

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  1. Nobilis1984
    Apr 9, 2015
    1
    The biggest waste of 2014

    I do not know what the developers were thinking at stake. Probably nothing.
    - The graphic comes from the PS2.
    - The bars above and below limit the field of view.
    - I miss the survival game. All I see is only slaughter.
    - Hordes of enemies instead of horror.
  2. 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
  3. Wimpkid
    Oct 21, 2014
    4
    Horror or survival. Now that is a question that needs to be answered ohhhhhhh wait it is a dumb zombie game that is not hard even playing on the hardest difficulty. First the enemies are not a threat to anyone and then the graphics are horrible, wow I thought this game would make me sh*t my pants but no.........
  4. Nintendo_Gamer
    Jun 8, 2016
    0
    El juego pudo haber sido el renacimiento del survival horror, lastimosamente sólo queda en eso, en una posibilidad.
    Tiene buenos elementos rescatables pero que por cuestiones técnicas y de jugabilidad se convierten en una experiencia rota.
    En momentos es aburrido, en otros es confuso y en algunos desesperante, llega el momento en que deseas que termine el capítulo con tal de apagar la    El juego pudo haber sido el renacimiento del survival horror, lastimosamente sólo queda en eso, en una posibilidad.
    Tiene buenos elementos rescatables pero que por cuestiones técnicas y de jugabilidad se convierten en una experiencia rota.
    En momentos es aburrido, en otros es confuso y en algunos desesperante, llega el momento en que deseas que termine el capítulo con tal de apagar la consola e ir a dormir. Lags, bugs y bajones de frames continuos.
    Lástima, pudo ser algo mucho mejor.    … Expand
  5. DocOcarina
    Mar 12, 2018
    4
    I heard that this game had stellar reviews. Boy, was I disappointed. Glitches galore. The game froze quite frequently. The AI was buggy as hell. The difficulty was just poorly balanced. The game offered you tons of power ups to make you feel like you were getting stronger, but then made the majority of enemies instant kill you, making powering up in this game completely moot. The storyI heard that this game had stellar reviews. Boy, was I disappointed. Glitches galore. The game froze quite frequently. The AI was buggy as hell. The difficulty was just poorly balanced. The game offered you tons of power ups to make you feel like you were getting stronger, but then made the majority of enemies instant kill you, making powering up in this game completely moot. The story makes little to no sense. They give this crazy set-up in the intro, and then never explain anything.

    The tutorial is one of the hardest parts of the game, making you unable to run, and punishing you if you follow the game's cues to perform stealth kills. And my favorite part of all: Why, why on God's green Earth, does the game only display on half of your tv screen? I looked into it. The game is intended, by design, to letterbox half of the screen so that you can't see anything. Apparently this was to make it "more cinematic", which makes no sense considering that I'd shut off a movie instantly if it displayed on only half the tv.

    Add in some clunky controls, sub-par graphics, and 30 second load times every time you die (I died 92 times) and you have a game that is just a total train wreck. You couldn't pay me to play this again.    … Expand
  6. Emanuel632
    Aug 28, 2020
    1
    From very good to extremely annoying and stupid!!! I just hate this game!!!

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  1. Slant Magazine
    Oct 31, 2014
    40
    A convoluted compendium of horror clichés that superficially invokes mental illness, The Evil Within distinguishes itself as the most pandering survival-horror game yet.
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