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Item management also plays a crucial role in The Evil Within.

Reyes notes that focusing on hand and shotguns specifically is a 'practical' way of managing weapons, particularly because of the amount of ammo they can hold and the damage they can dole out. But gauging from the amount of ammo available, it’s wise to do so with caution.'

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'Throughout each of the game’s tough stages, you may be tempted to throw upgrade points into your more powerful weapons in order to craft ridiculously surefire solutions to progressively more demanding combat scenarios. Like in many survival horror games, ammunition and items are scarce, and there's not much room for squandering them.

It was a nice idea, even if it never fully gelled versus the countless times developers forced players to fight.Weapon upgrades are also available, but Reyes warns people against arming themselves to the teeth and counting on firearms to keep them safe from the undead. Evil Within did some of its own stealth, too – over the course of a 20-25 hour campaign, you were sometimes forced into situations where sneaking past was the best, if not the only, option. More to the point, these additional chapters arm you with only a flashlight, re-focusing the design around stealth and avoidance. ( Evil Within sadly lacks much of the charm of Resident Evil’s narrative schlock.) Rather than wearing the shoes of the hardboiled, world-weary detective Sebastian Castellanos, the extra narrative here follows Kidman, a rookie cop, who’s actually a double agent for the evil corporation that’s responsible for the whole mess, though that’s not really important. The game’s DLC episodes, The Assignment and The Consequence (less so the hilariously incongruous first-person romp The Executioner), take the opposite approach. Much like RE4, the main game also revels in the intensity of combat rather than making players simply run. The game’s basic action – killing undead horrors in explosive displays of gore, keeping after a survival horror feel by limiting your ammo, crafting a deliriously unhinged nightmare world with killer art direction and overwrought body horror – makes it a worthy experience, making up for the relative shortcomings of its narrative elements. While its narrative is mostly weak, eventually committing the midichlorian error of giving rational reason behind the surreal setting, gameplay itself is pretty entertaining. For now, though, there’s the game’s DLC, which is surprisingly excellent – in some ways even more so than the main entry.Įvil Within (which carries the much snappier title “Psycho Break” in Japan) posited itself as a sort of hybrid between the action game Mikami pioneered so well in RE4 with the nightmarish, psychological imagery of Silent Hill. The original game, released in 2014, did pretty well in sales, especially for a horror title two years on would certainly have been enough time to get a glimpse into a proper sequel, but that didn’t happen.Īt the moment, it’s unknown whether or not Mikami and his team at Tango Gameworks are even working on a follow-up, although despite the somewhat forgettable cast of the first game, Bethesda could do worse than making a series. A sequel to Shinji Mikami’s Resident Evil 4 horror game The Evil Within was expected to get announced at Bethesda’s E3 press conference earlier this month.

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