What is fear? What is horror? What does it mean to truly be terrified? That is what the team behind The Evil Within sought to make. And the results of their queries has led to one of the most intense horror survival games ever made. This game has detailed environments, anxiety and intensity that builds every second, all woven within a story that'll have you gripped from the very beginning.
You are Detective Sebastian Castellanos, who has been assigned to figure out the source of a series of gruesome murders. But when he and his partner witness something truly horrifying, Sebastian soon finds himself in another world. One where monsters and the dead walk side-by-side, and he has to try and survive them.
Knowing that survival is the only way out, he sets off to find the source of these horrors. But what he will find will chill him to the bone.
What makes The Evil Within so terrifying isn't just the monsters you'll find, but it's that you won't have much to use to fight them off. Instead, you'll have to use traps and devices of pure evil to strike them down. In a way, you must become them to beat them.
Plus, there's no telling what else might find you in the game. The Evil Within is all about making you squirm. Be prepared for anything, and everything.
Are you ready to face the horror of The Evil Within? Be careful with your answer, for there's no turning back if you decide to open this door.
Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time. I felt strongly about The Evil Within when it first came out. By “strongly” I mean I pretty much hated it. (more…)
US President Donald Trump yesterday held a private meeting to discuss the issue of violence in video games, having suggested after February’s murders at a school in Parkland, Florida that it “is really shaping young people’s thoughts.” This would clearly amount to nothing productive, given mostly industry representatives and conservative pressure groups were attending, but it is a surprise that Trump showed attendees a short video montage of video game deaths. The White H...
You probably know what to expect when you load up a game called The Evil Within . There will be a bunch of logos before you get to the menu and at least one of them will involve barbed wire, splattered blood and sinister fonts. The logo for the first game turned some of the letters of the title into a nail that was variously plunging toward an eyeball or piercing a brain. Of course it did. That’s what horror games do. When the horror games in question are made by Tango Gameworks, though, t...
Last week I popped off to play Bethesda and Tango Gameworks’ upcoming survival horror sequel The Evil Within 2, which adds open world elements to its stomp through a town filled with science-gone-wrong monstrosities. You can read what I thought about it in my Evil Within 2 impressions here, or alternatively you can watch what I did and how many times I got killed by snickering things in the hour-long video below. (more…)
Let’s all go on holiday! To a twisted horror-world that exists solely as the manifestation of a fractured and agonised mind. Sure, the walls will probably bleed and that clock over there is definitely screaming about the severed threads of temporal stability, but there’s so much to see and do. And let’s not forget all the wonderful people we’ll meet as we hike from one attraction to the next. There’s Stefano Valentini, for instance. He used to be a photojournalist b...
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