With The Evil Within 2 Rumoured to be in Development, What Could Mikami and Tango Do With a Sequel?

PressA2Join: Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami's magnum opus released worldwide in 2014, thrusting players as detective Sebastian Castellanos into the mad, malevolent and macabre setting of Krimson City, a world riddled with morbid nightmarish creatures, satisfying moments of combat; all of which resulted in an old school horror game in its purest, deadliest and goriest form. Still, despite its many accomplishments, The Evil Within was not without its flaws, so did Mikami's grand design do enough to be worthy of a sequel? and what can we expect from it if one is indeed on the horizon?

[chrisx]

Take everything from the 1st game and dial it up a notch in the sequel. Sebastian should be back one way or the other

[Resis7ance]

I'm interested to see what setting the developer chooses.

Would expect Sebastian to return along with Ruvik.

[DarthMoose]

Some crazy new weapons would be cool. Give sebastion a chainsaw hand maybe?

[lilmisscherry]

Would love to see a modern day setting for The Within Evil 2.

[DarkOcelet]

Its pretty much a possibility considering its a game that can pretty much be anywhere. I honestly would love to a Castle setting.

[Goldeneye007]

What can they do with the sequel? They can shove it straight up their asses! The first game was a complete waste of money.

[gangsta_red]

The game was complete trash and had to force myself to finish it. And the ending...what a complete waste of time that game was,

[Concertoine]

My issue was the game pushed itself as "the return of survival horror". I started the game throwing bottles and stealth killing enemies like every game in 2013-2014.

Then i basically played the return of RE4 with a nonsense story as an excuse to show some cool enemy design.

Then i found myself doing banal gears-esque turret sections. So by the time i finished the game i had played everything but "the return of survival horror".
The burning body mechanic looked like it would bring back the whole crimson head idea, one of the most tense ideas in horror games. But that didnt happen.

I feel like if they combined the best of RE4 and classic RE they would've had something special.

[Resis7ance]

The Evil Within scored pretty well with most critics following its release. A great game in many aspects but let down by certain flaws such as character models, etc.

I believe a sequel would fare much better than the original game.

[skwidd]

That's always been Mikami's style though. Starts off more on the survival and turns into action broken by some segments of some kind of on rails shooting. Evil Within had a similar template as RE4. This is his technique of "upping" the stakes. I don't love it but I gather they think survival all the way through may get boring for players so the game is built to elevate the stakes with action set pieces. Having said that, I did love Evil Within and would love a sequel.

[Blu3_Berry]

I absolutely loved the first Evil Within. I do hope they expand more on the characters backstory and the corporation behind all this. The DLCs with Kidman expanded so much for the story which greatly helped. I do hope they focus a little more on stealth this time around, as I feel that was lost after the first few chapters in the main campaign but lucky that was the main driving factor for the DLCs.

[MilkMan]

Finally a real horror game. For me this game was the true sequel to Resident Evil 4. Can hardly wait.

[skwidd]

@MilkMan 100%!

[gangsta_red]

One of the most disappointing games I have played. The story made little to no sense, the gameplay was boring and just about everything else was poor man's Resident Evil 4.

This game played out the same way almost every time.Start off in a hallway, get to the other end, have a headache, get transported to another hallway, do it again and again.

And that ending, seriously, made absolutely no sense at all.

I guess a sequel could only go up from there.

[DafunkyRebel]

Swear to god if they try to make it first person, I will lose my shit

[FullmetalRoyale]

Do whatever you want, Baby, I'm buying!

[JikguJay]

Although poorly optimized and plagued with issues, I did enjoy the first one.

[ZwVw]

Well, the word going around is that Tango Gameworks will be working with UE4 this time around as opposed to IdTech5 for easier optimization.

[1nsomniac]

I gave it a REALLY hard time when it first released because of its patchy graphics, ridiculously stupid AI & the embarrassingly bad voice acting. If you can get past that though the game underneath was actually really good. Had some good scares too.

For the sequel, if I had to, I could even put up with the horrible AI again. There's absolutely no chance in hell though I could put up with the same quality in voice acting though. It was straight out of the original Res Evil on the PS1.

[DarthMoose]

Voice acting was fine, 3 celebs do the voices which worked well. Especially jackie earl haleys creppy voice as ruvuk.

[1nsomniac]

You're mental. It was like the lines were read by people who have never done it before. Reading sentences from a script whenever they could fit it in their schedule in a random order on different days. Words in the same sentence didn't even sound like they fitted together never mind conversations between people. It sounded like a kids spell & speak machine at times.

[DarthMoose]

I absolutely loved the evil within. Akuma was intense! This and re2make gameplay and my life is complete.