I myself am quite a big fan of almost all Resident Evil parts (whether old or new, more "horror" or more action) and some cognate games like Alan Wake or Silent Hill. And since both hype and tests and ratings for The Evil Within were almost always good I thought there one can not go wrong. Nope ... Go yet. And so a lot!
I've played the game a little more than an hour and felt for so much as just bad that I did it directly thrown back from the plate. And that's saying something, because that's in my 10+ years gaming fans only a hand full of times occurred.
But why do I find the game so bad?
For me in the first place precisely for the reason why many others praise in the sky: the atmosphere.
Many others feel the so captivating as a horror, or bad. I personally feel all that as artificial, coated, brutally to the brutal willing and completely implausible and therefore in total than all but no horror and everything but not compelling. That goes for me already going in the first scene. Policeman is called with colleagues to a nervous Klink which übelst battered corpses is paved in the entrance area of about 10 (!) And what is not ...? no emotion ... Nothing. Business as usual, so to speak .... * lol *
And so that the next x scene then continues ... Each scene is brutal, absurd and gewaltätiger as previously and there is neither an explanation nor a reaction on the part of the protagonist or something else. All this degenerates into a mere end in itself, and bounces on character (and thus also for me as a player) from completely without unfold even the slightest effect.
Playful know the game in my opinion, not what it wants to be. Much is reminiscent of Resident Evil 1, some places are almost 1: 1 steal, as the encounter with the first Zombi in the tent ... Other reminded of Resident Evil 4 and again another to Silent Hill or Alan Wake. other things like hiding then come back from Amnesia example that we may feel as good now because it combines many elements from the genre, or as I did when just half-baked. I feel like the creators had exactly 0 vision of what the game is to be times ... make along the lines of "let's a game for the disappointed Resi fans to we mix everything up to date and what was announced yesterday and it's okay so ". For me as though nothing fits.
And the whole thing is underpinned by the then technical shortcomings such as the outdated graphics, the partly miserable camera, control, etc.
So for me, in the sum of a very bad disappointment that I had not so long ago, because in most cases I have a pretty good sense of what I like and what not. Here I have but let me blenen the hype vigorously. Shame on me, I'd say.
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So why not just 1 star, although I can play not get anything good?
I would imagine that the game for younger players who have not yet x other games of this genre have played already leaves an impression. but for me, as someone who has seen it all in similar and mostly better 100x, which is simply nothing.
