The Evil Within Review - The Best Survival Horror Game Ever? | Censor Dodge

"If you’ve seen the E3 gameplay demo, you know exactly what I’m talking about. The game was marketed as a hide n’ seek horror game akin to Outlast or Alien: Isolation, with a vulnerable main character needing to hide and avoid a hulking chainsaw-wielding monstrosity or else face a brutal chainsaw colonoscopy."

[memnoch_87]

I just put up my article saying the exact opposite. Always nice to read from people who disagree.

[mikeslemonade]

What criteria? Life to date or Direct Comparison? With a direct comparison it could be the best survivor horro game because it's the most current with the latest features, graphics, and mechanics.

With a life to date comparison it's not even close though.. It's not even that good of a game.

[dreamed]

Agreed this game is just run n gun shite with sod all ammo....most frustrating goty imo.

Dont get me wrong i love survival horror....but this game isnt that imo.

[skwidd]

I love this game!

[jaybin]

Ha, nice man. I'll give it a look. I'd bet we agree on more than we disagree

[Gazondaily]

I doubt it if he's saying the exact opposite to you lol. Still, good to get a healthy discussion going.

[memnoch_87]

We don't :P

But that's fine too!

[XiYakushijuAkeginuXi]

This game has a horror atmosphere but there was nothing scary after a while. Play some Outlast, Daylight, Amnesia, FEAR, Silent HIll if you want horror

[PoSTedUP]

fear 2 had me in the corner of the room in the game, petrified, afraid to move. alone, lights off, volume up. no game has ever done that for me. but maybe RE1/2 back in the day on a different level of scared..

[Ninver]

Dude we need another fear game asap!

[vishmarx]

Outlast, Daylight, Amnesia are boring as hell to play
which makes their scare factor irrelevant to me

[dreamed]

Obviously your not a horror fan then?

[opoikl]

I didn't even finish Outlast because it got under my skin too much. The scariest I've ever been was playing P.T. There's a moment where Lisa starts panting if you approach the bathroom that really got to me. I was wearing a surround sound headphone playing in the dark and it actually sounded like she was constantly breathing down my neck, no matter which direction I turned. Incredibly well done.

I'll give Fear a try - my brother always told me that the bullet impact was second to none in that game, what I didn't realize was that the game was also scary. Thanks for the tip!

[GetSomeLoGiK]

I feel like a lot people misunderstood these kind of games. It's not horror like jump scares just the atmosphere is horror like you said, this game to its core (exactly like RE since it is made by the same person) is tense horror in terms of scrambling situation which is what Resident Evil is. People who are are expecting jump scares will be dissapointed. RE was never scary, it just got tense as fuck due to all the scramble situations you are in i.e. Should I waste my bullets? Should I run? Should I use a med kit? Should I spend points in this category? Etc.

[skwidd]

Great description! To me, that's what's scary. I played Fear and it was just boring to me. Not sure exactly why. But I love the art direction in EW and the sense of tension that keeps driving it because of the situation it presents is incredible. Not a fan of jump scares (they don't scare me and they feel cheap). I like building on atmosphere and holding the tension. I play EW very slow and carefully, best way to enjoy it. If you're running through the levels I can't see how that would be enjoyable. I guess at the end the game isn't for everyone.

[jaybin]

I love most of those games, but surely you aren't saying Daylight is better than.....well, frankly even sitting in a dark room.

I'm the most impartial to Silent Hill and Outlast myself.

[XiYakushijuAkeginuXi]

Daylight might have been a crappy game, but it was very scary to me. Those ghost women popped out of no where

[jaybin]

Haha, true true

[SockeyBoy]

I thought it was an awesome game, but I didn't find it scary, more on the gore horror side of things.

[pasta_spice]

Its a decent horror game but I dont even think its the best horror game of the past 3 months, let alone all time.

[Bloodjunkie]

Was very disappointed from this game. They tried to much to steel from other genres instead of making a awesome Resident Evil tribute game with a different story.

[Helloween13]

Where is the horror in this game (Mario is more scary) and why did they make it look like it belonged on a PS2 console, this is worst than Zombie Uii

[theshredded]

will buy this during the black friday sale

[memnoch_87]

Don't... it's dangerous out there lol