The visuals are clear and really set a scene amongst the desolation and decay of the world.
#EVIL INSIDE PS4 REVIEW PS4#
This is where the game really shines through and shows what the PS4 can do in ways that have only been touched upon in previous games. The cinematic quality of The Evil Within is staggering. The only let down is the poor lip synching and script, which reminds me too much of the original Resident Evil‘s opening section and not in the charming way that everyone celebrates today. The voice acting and sound is well realised with enemy footfalls being suitably easy to pinpoint and the blood drenched creatures sickeningly squelch and slop their way around convincingly. Especially as the machinations of horror get more complex and start to take form around the antagonist Ruvik who’se gravelly voice is provided by Jackie Earle Haley, the same voice behind Rorschach in the Watchmen and Freddy in The Nightmare on Elm Street remake.
The narrative may be about as messy as a Damon Lindelof magnum opus but it drip feeds you enough to want to continue through it. There is a real sense of risk and reward as you get to choose whether to disarm a particularly nasty trap which is triggered by proximity, doing so would mean that you couldn’t set it off on yourself but leaving it behind means that you can lure the dopey enemies into it, rewarding you with an instant kill and less wasted ammunition. Ammo is as scarce as you would expect from a survival horror so most fighting situations come down to your wits and how you use the environment to escape or dispatch foes. Just like Resident Evil 4 the combat can feel as invigorating as it is frustrating. Though the environments wreak of familiarity with castles, churches and mansions littering your path through the story it does give you a good reminder of that pedigree that Mikami can bring to the plate. When you get through the opening chapters of the game everything starts to open up. Only this time the game focusses more on the scares and grotesque enemies than the action of the latter Resi games. On one hand you have the instances such as the one above, where careful planning, stealth and exploration can be punished due to momentary lapses of design and programming, while on the other you get a decent homage to one of the best horror titles ever created, made by the person that shaped survival games as we know them today. Instead The Evil Within presents itself as a hard game to love. But faults detract so much from a genre that is built on the experience and immersion that it smears a large part of a product that could have been amazing. Fair enough though, Resident Evil 4 was low on scares and The Evil Within goes some way to rectify that issue. Especially considering that Resident Evil 4 was nine years ago. I would be very hard pressed to say that this kind of thing is good enough. Shinji Mikami was responsible for this, one of the most hy ped up horror games since he created the genre-defining Resident Evil 4. Suddenly he popped up out of nowhere, right of thin air next to where I was standing. He was standing next to a chest the whole time! Feeling that I had given him the slip I set about opening the chest, hoping that the goodies inside would lead to my salvation.
As supplies got fewer and desperation became a factor I ran into his original domain.
This guy was a bullet sponge but all he needed was one or two good hits on me to ensure that I would never need to worry about hair gel ever again. What happened next resulted in a Scooby Doo style chase through the village as he came at me with a massive chainsaw. As he struggled against them I knew that shit was about to go down, so I planned an attack cleared the village of supplies and ammunition so that I could unload some good old fashioned lead justice on his face. In this village there was a barn which held a hulking, faceless beast wrapped in chains. I stepped into the shoes of Detective Sebastien Castellanos as he trod in rain-drenched mud, through a dank village filled with ghoulish, brainwashed, totally not zombie people.
There was a moment in The Evil Within where I experienced pure horror. Octoin PS4 / Reviews tagged bad times / resident evil 4.5 / shinji mikami / survival horror / the evil within by Grizz
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