Technology Tell writes, "October is brutal on gamers. Traditionally, October and November are the busiest months, as every company wants to have their game out in time for the holiday shopping season. Which means people often find themselves torn between two games, like Alien: Isolation and The Evil Within. In this particular circumstance, both games came to next gen platforms, are appropriately spooky for the season, and cost the same amount of money."
The Outerhaven writes: While I hold Bethesda's The Evil Within series as some of the best Survival Horror games available, it's clear that Bethesda has no intention of revisiting the series. While Capcom is still working on its Resident Evil series, I look back at the now-dead survival horror series from Bethesda, wondering why the series was left wide open, and yet still not revisited.
An OK horror series left behind. It had some great ideas, but it never knew how to play to its strengths. Instead, it came out like just another RE4 clone.
I would love for a third entry to come out, but it needs to learn to lean in on the psychological aspect and move away from the generic "pew pew" ideology at the center of the gameplay loop. It doesn't need to abandon it; it just needs to put it into better context, is all.
Also, try a first-person perspective instead. Too many 3rd-person games with nothing to offer but an avatar taking precious screen space. At least make it an actual option and not that janky-ass mess the second game pretended to have.
Alien Isolation Grand Mother VR is an all new virtual reality experience for Creative Assembly’s best ever horror game.
I played through most of the PS4 version of the game but stopped because another game came out. I bought it last year for PC with the intention of using the VR mod but haven't gotten around to setting it up. I am glad I waited.
Great game, even better in VR. A little drawn out by the end, but I hope we see CA do something a little different with the sequel.
Sweet. I also rebought this game on Steam for the purpose of VR. I'll have to give it another shot w full immersive controls. I had only tried it out briefly before.
It's funny this was never officially released at retail as a VR game, bc it feels so perfect for it!
The Alien franchise has had a long history in video games, but few games have come quite as close to being perfect as Alien: Isolation.
Alien isolation destroys evil within in every aspect, evil within feels half finished.
I have both. ;)
Both FTW!
The Evil Within suffers from some pretty bad pop-ins and visually it's not up to par with Isolation. I'd have to hand this to the Alien game for being an overall better game regardless of receptiveness. ;)
Alien Isolation blows Evil Within out of the water like a battleship vs a tugboat, when you play Alien Isolation the atmospheric tension is so great that your nerves will be shattered and your heart will be beating thru your chest and your hands sweaty from panic and fear trying to stay alive from the Alien after your gaming session.
I have both games and i keep going back to Alien Isolation because Evil Within just doesn't have that suspense factor that keeps you on the edge of your seat like Alien Isolation does, I became bored with Evil Within and at the point where I just want to beat the game and be done with it.