![]() Tango Gameworks/Bethesda SoftworksThat boss rush serves as a lead-in to the final act of The Evil Within 2, and what a final act it is. In another clever battle, your goal is simply to keep the unstoppable bad guy busy while a clock runs down.There’s even a surprising boss rush that is, somehow, not awful to play. One fight against a chainsaw-wielding monster has traps and explosive barrels set up around the environment. In the sequel, boss fights are a blast.Both in terms of showing players that the boss is being properly injured and just visualizing elements of the environment better, The Evil Within 2 makes it really clear how to fight a boss without the need to die and restart over and over. Update: OctoThe finished game and scoreAs I worked through the back half of The Evil Within 2 last weekend, one question kept repeating over and over again in my head: How? How did they pull this off? That push and pull, between wanting to see what the game has in store next and being terrified to find out - that delightful feeling is why I play horror games, and so far this one is nailing it. The game just keeps tossing everything it has at me, and every time I think I’ve seen it all, it gives me some unique revelation, some dreadful apparition I’ve yet to encounter. Or I’ll run past a house I’ve already rummaged through, but I’ll hear a woman screaming, pulling me back to find something new and shocking.I don’t know if The Evil Within 2 will be able to work this magic right up until the credits - which seem a lot further off than they did in the first game - but for now, I’m extremely impressed. The next time through, a new one has spawned in a just-hidden-enough location to make me jump with surprise. You can spend hours exploring every inch of Union, and the game rewards that thoroughness with more of the limited resources Castellanos needs to survive. Tango Gameworks/Bethesda SoftworksBeyond just being a more interesting setting, Union introduces one of the biggest departures The Evil Within 2 takes from its predecessor: large, open locations. Union may be a fake alternate reality where you can travel through computers to get from location to location, but Tango Gameworks puts in the effort to make it feel like a real, recognizable, lived-in place - albeit one that has sunk into devastation and terror. Tacky art hangs on walls, neon signs flicker above small-town shops, and mundane junk litters closets and office desks. It was built by Mobius to be the ideal alternate reality utopia, and Castellanos calls it “any town, USA.” That sort of broad evocativeness works in the game’s favor, creating much more of a sense of place than the first game ever accomplished. The Evil Within 2 waits for the precise moment I have my bearings in a location, then rips the rug of reality out from underneath me.Most of my first eight hours with The Evil Within 2 has been set in a sleepy city called Union. Despite that all going horribly wrong in the last game, they are somehow surprised to find it going horribly wrong again here.One second he’s in a strange, slow-motion killer’s ornate art gallery, and the next he’s walking through a warped flashback of Beacon Mental Hospital, the setting of the last game. ![]() to help with their broken experiment to create a psychic virtual reality (which manifests as a generic American town, of the sort that always gets overrun by monsters in ‘80s horror films). The game starts with ex-police detective Sebastian Castellanos being approached by an Umbrella-like global mega corp. This sequel also adds in some semi-open world areas and The Last Of Us style scavenging, but it doesn’t survive that comparison very well either.īut the first problem with The Evil Within 2 is its unnecessarily complex backstory. The original was much anticipated, as the first game from the new studio of Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami, but rather than being a new milestone in the genre it spent all its time reminding you of other, better games – primarily Mikami’s own Resident Evil 4 and the earlier Silent Hill games. ![]() Although the first Evil Within wasn’t a flop we think everyone was surprised that it even has a sequel.
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