The Evil Within

[DJCowboy]

The Evil Within is a survival horror game from Shinji Mikami (the creator of Resident Evils 1-4). It's a good game, I'm about 5 chapters into it but the one thing that's holding it back? It totally, 100% feels like Mikami was reimagining Resident Evil 4 with this game. Everything from the setting to the enemies feels all waaaaay too familiar. This isn't necessarily a bad thing because RE4 is arguably the best game in that franchise but it also means that Evil Within isn't being allowed to find its own identity or its own thing that will set it apart and make it unique. Actually you can go into a crouching, Metal Gear Solid mode to sneak up behind enemies and take them out with your knife but for some odd reason you cannot bring out that knife when trying to do regular melee attacks. You are also supposed to use matches to set bodies on fire to assure them from not coming back to life but when you're carrying a torch you'd think you can just simply use the torch to light it up but nope, you have to swing it as a melee attack setting the body on fire but losing your torch. Makes no sense.

The graphics are great and really eerie and creepy, the sound and music is also great, the gameplay is fun (but as mentioned before, familiar)

So far the game gets a 3 out of 5 from me. Had I never played RE4 it'd get a great score from me, but seeing as how Mikami is essentially copying himself, it's just hard to give it anything more.

Granted, I'm not done with the game but you really can't help but feel you've seen all of this before, luckily RE4 was released almost 10 years ago so it's nice to play a newer, updated version of it.

 

[L3ggy]

RE4 the best? I'd put it at fifth best.

 

[DJCowboy]

RE4 the best? I'd put it at fifth best.

I just couldn't put RE4 down. It definitely didn't have the same feel as RE1 and RE2; those two had the best atmosphere ever for a creepy, scary game. To me the RE series ended with 4. 5 and 6 don't exist

 

[L3ggy]

Five and six are an abomination.

 

[DJCowboy]

I'm getting closer to the end and this game is very very fun (aside from a few frustrations but that's to be expected with survival horror games). As I've played further the similarities to RE4 and even felt like there were several nods to RE1 as one section of the game is in a mansion.

I've bumped up my score to 4 out of 5

 

[BusterLoads]

Five and six are an abomination.

Agreed.

The Evil Within started off good but it borrowed a lot of things from the later Resident Evil games and suffers from one of the only gripes I had with Resident Evil 4. I don't want to spoil anything for those that haven't beat it though. I also had a problem with the story, particularly how the game ended, but apparently there's going to be 2 pieces of DLC that are coming out that will fill in plot holes so I'll reserve judgment until I play through those.

 

[AMS AGENT 000]

I have the PC version and it is TERRIBLE. Not so much the game itself but the fact that it is clearly a bad port. The game freezes, stutters, and crashes all the time. Tango games doesn't communicate with the players either.

 

[the hellion]

Yeah, I heard that this game is supposed to be a spiritual successor to RE4. Considering how I loved the hell out of RE4, I might actually pick this up sometime.

And concerning the Resident Evil series, I could forgive RE5 for being more of an action game, but RE6 was downright unspeakable.

 

[Master Rible]

Nice...blood and gore. I think I need garlic near XD