The Evil Within - Playstation 3

Now before I begin I want to make somethink clear. This game was made by the studio which is ran by the same guy who did RE 1-4, that means it is going to feel alot like RE 1-4, and I'm getting really tired of people saying it's trying to copy and paste The Last Of Us. The story is some what bland and hard to follow, until you start progressing through the game and fing side text that explains alot of the stuff going on, along with back story for characters. In my personal believe, as the game says that all the characters and other victums have a linked to all their minds, this is the reason as to why the story is every where. There isn't much character development, and the voice acting is a little off for the game but it hasn't effected my enjoyment of the game. With the scares, though falling through at points, are well done. The majority of scares are in the games hud, with a mixture of uncomfertably close camra angles, complete darkness, and unsettling audio. The combat is well done, giving the player a varried set of tatics to use while fighting large or small groups of enemies. The sealth is somewhat laughable at times, but it didn't take away from the intensity of the situation, even making me feel it was a god send they didn't notice me. You can use some of the enviorment around you to your advantage with bolts that have different effects on enemies (fire, ice, poison, ect) along with using bottles to destract enemies to get past them or to stealth kill them. The AI for enemies is somewhat weird because they will focus in on you from a long distance, and will continue to look for you until you are entirely out of the area. The comabt is handicapped enough to the point of where the game felt it was almost impossible at points. For example, I was fighting a boss and I had little supplies. No healing items, no ammo in stock, or parts to make cross bow bolts, with only a double-barrle shotgun fully loaded off to the side and 5 pistol rounds. It took 7 tries until I beat the boss and continue to the next chapter. It feels impossible, but it's not, so perpare to grow a pair. It also helps to have prior experience with the Dark Souls games, learning to conserve resources and when to be agressive or passive. The game shows off some impressive machnics, with completely invisable enemies in the first couple of chapters and solving pussles by examining the entire area for small details, while it could focus on them a little bit more, there is no doubt they put a lot of work into this game and it shows. As for the frame rate, however, I haven't run into any bugs and I'm playing on a PS3, the only one I have ran into was when I was going up a ladder and had my lattern out but it has only happened once. I would recommend this game to both people who loved Resident Evil 4, and to people looking for a challange. An even though I have a list of improvements for the game, it gave me exactly what I wanted from a horror game in the late 2013 era.

After all the bad reviews I took a chance and finally bought the game for $19.99 and I love it! The only bad thing about it is 50% black bars on the top and bottom but after 30 minutes and I have a 55” TV it didn’t really bother me at all just turned the lights off in the dark and good to go!. The loading time takes 36 seconds a pop after getting killed so it wasn’t that bad most other games take longer I love to be sneaky by killing the zombies and disarm the bombs but I’m a little slow 70% got it 30% dead.. Now my god Chapter 10 that 6 legged creature is super hard (angry mode) like a snake with a rat = fast death over 100+ times I don't ever want to fight that b*tch again!, If you have problems go to this video guide http://www.gosunoob.com/evil-within/complete-chapter-walkthrough/ NOTE: don’t waste your bullets on Ruvik just run no way to kill him The control is pretty smooth just like RE4, 5 but have big problems on the shortcut weapon inventory I keep popping the wrong button so many times and screws me up, the graphic’s are nice but not the best some parts are like a classic movie type and some screen tearing from time to time but its not that bad some reviewers just get annoyed for little things UPDATE: I Changed the control setting to C that was a lot better !! UPDATE: Upgrade the Harpoon Bolt to 5 that will get FIRE! better to kill her (chapter 10) UPDATE: Chapter 15 Complete - Casual - Total Time: 35:32:06 Total Number of Death: 197 (Chapter 10, 15) NOW the good news!! Just got the leak on Amazon France, The Evil Within the GOTY edition coming this September include the DLC The Assignment, The Consequence, The Executioner Bethesda hasn’t confirmed an actual release date for North America yet , but keep an eye out for it. Also heard that they will get an option for full screen and letterbox I will definitely buy it again !! http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-General/The-Evil-Within-Game-of-the-Year-Edition-on-the-way/td-p/45274387 This is a GREAT game its like Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill Downpour, The Last of us all in one and it is very fun game to play and so glad I bought it, but u might as well rent it first coz chapter 10 is very hard from the boss fight… I really hope Shinji Mikami gets another installment [The Evil Within 2] soon!! BOTH LANGUAGE & VOICE *English *French *Spanish

Before i go into the game i would like to add a short back story on why i love it so much. I have always been a Resident Evil fan (video games) ever since Resident evil directors cut came out and beyond. I also enjoyed many other horror survival RPG's, in fact they are my fav class of video game. Ok enough about Me!!! Here it is, what makes "The Evil Within" Such a bad ass title for any system in the RPG survival horror class ? 1) The game's environment, it is a lot like Resident Evil but much more in the realm of insanity, but this is good insanity. The first time i play it i couldn't stop, because it jumped out at me with such realistic environments. 2) The Horror (this should have been 1), If you enjoy scary movies and very scary games, then this is your baby right here, they don't rely on jump scares to cause terror... trust me on that. The first time i played it i was like "well seems kinda scary but where's this so called great horror and terror at ?" Well after awhile later i changed my tune to "Omg, get me outta here i'm gonna die from FEAR!!!!" as some giant juggernaut of a beast wielding an Axe came at me. Oh and Axes, Traps, Monsters, tricks are not the only thing you should be worried about, they have the legendary chainsaw wielding beast in this game too!!!! But as you play reality also plays on your mind, you will meet things you could never imagine ever to exist. 3) Customize !!!!! Yes this is soooo important to me as a gamer of horror RPGs i love to have control over my player then just walking around with something with zero choices. In The Evil Within you will have the chance(s) to customize your player in all sorts of amazing ways, which to me just made a great game even better. Well i like to keep these short so here is my last words on the game. If you have not had a chance to watch this game or play it i would suggest you give it a try, however if you did just run out and buy it anyways i don't think it would matter since you will love it. I give this game a 9.2 out of 10 Well hope this helped, if it did why not thumbs it up for me because it did take time to write it for Amazon, and i don't get paid for writing these things.

When I heard about The Evil Within, and heard it was being created by the original creator of Resident Evil, I got really, really excited. Horror video games have become more, well, action. Dead Space had lost its horrifying touch, and the first game of the series is really the only one that’ll make you jump. Resident Evil had become more action based rather than trying to survive. FEAR had also lost its horror touch. So, I had high hopes for The Evil Within. Nevertheless, when Resident Evil 4 came out (this was when I was fourteen years old) it was being praised as one of the best games ever created. And I was lucky enough to play it. It spooked the living hell out of me, and it was a difficult game. But I loved it, and till this day it is still one of my favorite games. Mind you, Resident Evil 4 was created by the same director who created The Evil Within. I researched a lot when The Evil Within came close to its release date, and by the time it was released I heard it was one of the most difficult horror games to come, and so after playing games that weren’t difficult I decided to wait for it, let the price come down. I was debating whether or not I should buy this for the PS4 or PS3, since I don’t have a PS4 yet. Now, I got to play it with my PS3 and beaten the game within three days after I got it. The Evil Within is, how I put it, Inception meets Jacob’s Ladder. It all takes place inside of a mad scientist’s mind, where the environment is constantly changing, the city is literally falling into the earth, where strange, nightmarish creatures lurk. Because it appears to be a big nightmares, the story doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. In fact, it leaves you with more questions than answers. Here are my pros and cons about the Evil Within. Pros: Survival Horror: The Evil Within is all based on how you can survive in this nightmarish landscape. Ammo is kinda rare, and you have to make each shot count or you’ll get frustrated with a wasted bullet. Of course, you can fight enemies with hatches and torches, but the game is a shooter. So you are put to the test with your shooting. Interactive environment: Though it’s scripted in certain parts, The Evil Within likes to ever change the environment. You might be walking down a hospital hallway and suddenly it changes into woods or village, or the exact opposite. Run or shoot or sneak choices: Again, this is survival horror, so you may find yourself empty with bullets and enemies are storming at you, and the best choice is to run like hell. You can’t kill every single enemy on screen, or you’ll be wasting precious ammo, and so you have to run sometimes to just get away. Also, you can sneak around and kill. The game isn’t built on stealth that much, really, but at least you can have a few instant kills that’ll save your ammo. AIs are actually worth having: There a few times within the game you meet up with another character, and the character has to fight on your side. They can actually kill enemies with their guns, or an axe, and that’ll save you ammo in the long run. Now the cons. Story: I don’t want to blow the story away too much, but majority of it takes place inside of a nightmare, like the movie Inception, in a way. But because it does take place inside of someone else’s head (and that someone wants to kill you), the story gets kinda gets mixed up, a lot. And by the time you finish your game you’ll leave with more questions than answers. Boring protagonist/often basic or bad dialogue: You play as Sebastian, a detective who is assigned to mysterious deaths in a local mental hospital, and then you get mixed up with this nightmarish world. Sebastian is a dull, one dimensional character, who just seems he doesn’t care what’s happening. In fact, the game really focuses on more of the mad scientist rather than Sebastian, even though you’re playing as him. And even more so is the dialogue. It appears the voice actors didn’t give their best because they knew the dialogue was dull and unrealistic at times, and their performance is lacking. Limited control: Have you ever play a game where there are traps design to kill your enemies and you had a difficult time setting enemies with those traps? Yup, The Evil Within is one of those games. There was one chapter you have to fight your way through a warehouse full of traps, but I couldn’t kill enemies with those traps. There isn’t a push button or kick, just hitting them with your fist, and these enemies are tough. And there were certain times you have to kick an object rather than just carry it. Even kicking is limited, because you can’t totally control an object once it is kick. How come there isn’t a carry button? Texture, glitches, loading freezing issues: there were many times textures don’t come up until the very last second, like in the beginning they show a CB radio in the ambulance but once it cuts to the CB radio again it’s nothing but a blur, then the CB radio will appear right before the screen changes. I also had a problem with the main cut scenes being glitchy here and there. And I also had a few problems where loading the game will just freeze. Despite the flaws, The Evil Within is a brutal, challenging game. It does design for you to die (though some of it is very cheesy), and you actually learn from dying. It does want to empty your bullets at times, so you are put to the test with your shooting skills. There will be bosses in the game that’ll eat your bullets more than you might think. There will be a few puzzles, and if you don’t get some of them right you might die. The game doesn’t score you how many times you die, so if you’re afraid of that don’t be, because there really isn’t any scoring points in the game, other than collection brain gel to upgrade your character. If you like horror, and want something that’s challenging, The Evil Within is for you. If you’re looking for a straight up shooter without worrying being out of ammo, The Evil Within is NOT for you. Good luck, players.

If you loved Resident Evil 4 you should also love The Evil Within. RE4 for PS2 was the first game that I ever played on the PS3 (release 60GB PS3s were backwards compatible). I had heard that RE4 was *that good* and worth playing before any of the PS3 games that were out at the time of the console's launch. And, man, were they ever right. RE4 blew me away, and it still stands as one of my top 5 favorite games. Many elements of RE4 are as fresh in my head today as they were way back in 2007 when I finally beat it after logging 30 hours into the campaign. The Evil Within was created by the same guy that did RE4, so I entered the game with great expectations after getting it on Amazon for just 19 bucks on Black Friday 2014. Were my expectations met? Mostly. It was definitely worth the 19 bucks!!! But these days I hold Dead Space up as the pinnacle example of Horror/Survival. Dead Space did everything correct from gameplay to story to mechanics to graphics to scares...everything was top notch. The Evil Within was great fun, but it disappointed in a few places. So first let me reiterate before I speak to my whiny complaints: The Evil Within was GREAT FUN. It's scary and tense with 15 very challenging chapters. It took me over 20 hours to beat. You will die (a lot) in Evil Within (on normal or higher difficulty). You will not beat certain enemies before a trial and error learning period (which can sometimes take more than just several attempts). There are some puzzles but it's not puzzle heavy. The challenges come by way of making it to the various chapter checkpoints via levels that are made insanely difficult at times by enemies driven by smart and accurate AI. I have no problem with smart and accurate AI, but when you add in that almost ALL enemies are walking bullet-sponges and ammo is scarce you are in for a challenge that requires more than just blasting your way through the game. And indeed there should be more than just blasting my way through a game, but in Evil Within when you're lucky enough to collect a decent amount of ammo in order to get through a chapter, it'd be nice if the ammo worked. 4 bullets to take down a human-haunted? Folks...aim for the head in this game and sometimes that doesn't even give you a 1-shot kill. Two grenades to take out the human-haunted with the machine gun? Ridiculous. Remember, I said accurate AI earlier and by that I meant that the enemies with guns in this game don't miss if you let them get a shot off. The creatures in Evil Within range from creepy to scary to disturbing. And almost all are viciously ruthless in their pursuit of you if they see you, so a lot of the Evil Within strategy will be to stay stealthy. The story and the dialogue are a bit whacky, but that's made up for by a game that has you in tense levels for the most part with a limited amount of cutscenes. I'm very late to the game with this review so I'll get this wrapped up by AGAIN saying that The Evil Within was great fun. I am excited to do a Survivor Difficulty New Game+ second playthrough. One thing's for sure about the second playthrough though: I will NOT be increasing the difficulty to Nightmare (unlocked after beating the game on Survivor difficulty). You can't raise the difficulty and use New Game+ anyway. Overall Rating: 4 ½ Stars

There were parts of this game where using stealth and conserving ammo actually worked, and those parts were fun. There were too many parts, though, where I found myself running around in circles being chased by something that could kill me instantly, and that I couldn't hide from or even turn around and see for the most part. And then getting killed and repeating those same 10 minutes of gameplay over and over and over again. I enjoyed the game enough to get to the last chapter, but then lost interest in the monotonous challenge and just watched the ending on youtube. The story was kind of all over the place and didn't make sense, but in that regard it was indeed a return to early survival horror, which I appreciated.

Fantastically scary game! I was skeptical given the commercials (I want to see the gameplay itself, not other people reacting to the game), but my skepticism was quickly lifted. I was instantly reminded of Silent Hill meets Resident Evil 4. I do believe it is scarier than the first Silent Hill, although I know others that say it's just below that level of frights. I love, love, love it. I haven't been this scared in a long time - not by a movie, a game, a book, a comic... anything. There were parts that I literally just looked away from the screen and ran forward. My only complaint is that even on easy, it is a difficult game, but this seems to be the direction of games nowadays. I don't want a game to be so easy that I slide right through it, but I also don't want it to be so hard that I have to put it away for a few days to let it sit and then go back to it. That's what I had to do with this game. But all is forgiven with the storyline, graphics, characters, villains, and frights. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

I have been a fan of the resident evil series since the original was released. I liked every main entry in the series except 6 and i even liked some of the spinoff titles like survivor and outbreak. However after playing the evil within i could care less about resident evil. The evil within was created by the creator of resident evil and his new studio and surpasses resident evil in every way. The evil within is terrifying and very challenging. You receive a very limited supply of health items and ammunition and must rely on stealth and melee combat to save your precious ammo for boss characters. You can pick up bottles that you can throw either as a distraction or throw at the enemy to stun them. You can craft special arrows with different effects such as flash and explosive. You can upgrade your character skills such as maximum health, how many health items and ammo you can carry and various weapon upgrades. This is the best japanese survival horror game i have ever played and is an instant classic. If you liked resident evil and have not yet played the evil within i reccomend you play it.