Live or die ... they have a choice !!!

This sentence comes from a very special, cruel but brilliant films series called SAW ... one has the impression that Shinji Mikami has carefully studied some of these films. In The Evil Within one plays a policeman named Sebastian Castellanos of the same has a number of problems on the cheek, after a tragic life event he became an alcoholic, on the other hand he has to investigate a mental hospital where strange things going on. Many bodies, a lot of blood and a troubled guy with a hood will accompany you 15 long chapters (about 18 hr. Time). Several mutated enemy, or even almost invincible creatures make it extremely difficult Castellanos and his colleagues, his job is because of this confused, distraught nightmare where constantly changing out alive to come to things in a few seconds completely.

You play in a classic Resident Evil 4 third-person perspective, with black bars top and bottom of graphically excellent PS 3-4 level. Shootout will be held behind a shoulder check. In the beginning you have to race like mad, sneak and opponents do targeted stab wounds. Later, you get more weapons that are equipped with relatively little ammunition (pistol, shotgun, rifle with telescopic sight, different crossbow techniques and Magnum, this classic explosive grenades) you also in a troubled station with prisons and a very interesting nurse on an electric chair can tune how several health attributes or magazine sizes. Therefore you have to collect green gel that you get either in boxes or at several localities and from opponents. Different types of arrows can be prepared with armor, there are several very interesting choices (explosion, poison, fire, cold, etc.)

The game scores with the completely different locales in the relevant chapters, here everything is represented you need for an awesome horror game. For this you are often right nasty bosses make life difficult, a false step or a too slow action and you die. Can you just so keep alive heals you with syringes or medicine pack. The save points are set very fair and you get in the game several times the possibility by a mirror in the troubled station to arrive, here you can keep checking back durchschnaufen and save the game. Furthermore you will find in the game statues which include a small key that can be used here in a kind of safe and for that you get important ammunition or green gel. Can you still collect cards fragments that are not quite as easy to find.

Conclusion: Mikami has developed a really ingenious horror game, you can burn enemies in order to save ammunition, you have to act thoughtfully and calmly, not to be detonated by a wire trap. But most important is the long demanded gloomy atmosphere which was criticized in Resident Evil 5 or even 6 is celebrated here perfectly. The game has a lot of the first Resident Evil titles, some of Silent Hill and very much of the SAW movies. The fear that traps you felt like a test subject in a bad trip that's why I say full conviction again: Live or die, it's your choice ... !!!