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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
So I've been dabbling back into The Evil Within and it has the trappings of a better game than it turned out to be.
Most of us know who Shinji Mikami is and the incredible pedigree of games in his portfolio. The Evil Within was the first game under his new Tango Gameworks studios and it's probably the closest thing to RE4 he could make as his first project. But unfortunately he didn't seem to have hit lightning in a bottle like RE4.
The characters are a little too dull for my taste. They got Jennifer Carpenter to voice Julie but my god is her delivery incredibly dull and monotonous. The other cast of characters, including Sebastian, are just ho-hum at best.
The game also has some real performance oddities. It's built on ID Tech and if I'm not mistaken, used their flaunted mega textures but the results are a lot of visible texture pop-in and swapping on camera cuts, even on modern hardware with faster SSDs. The engine just wasn't up to snuff.
By the way, if anyone has access to the PC Game Pass version, I would recommend playing that over any other as they actually went back and added some extra features, like a first person mode and reduced movement bobbing (which can be very egregious). The PC version also throws in the DLC for free, unlike if you get the game from the console game pass, where it's also stuck to the XBO resolution/performance metrics (720p/30 FPS IIRC).
Anyway, it's not a bad effort for the studios first game. IMO the sequel vastly improves upon the formula and does almost everything better.
Eagerly looking forward to see if Tango will ever revisit this for a proper third game, and yes I know Ghostwire started project development as TEW3, but the final game has absolutely nothing to do with the franchise at all.
What do you guys think about this franchise ?
Most of us know who Shinji Mikami is and the incredible pedigree of games in his portfolio. The Evil Within was the first game under his new Tango Gameworks studios and it's probably the closest thing to RE4 he could make as his first project. But unfortunately he didn't seem to have hit lightning in a bottle like RE4.
The characters are a little too dull for my taste. They got Jennifer Carpenter to voice Julie but my god is her delivery incredibly dull and monotonous. The other cast of characters, including Sebastian, are just ho-hum at best.
The game also has some real performance oddities. It's built on ID Tech and if I'm not mistaken, used their flaunted mega textures but the results are a lot of visible texture pop-in and swapping on camera cuts, even on modern hardware with faster SSDs. The engine just wasn't up to snuff.
By the way, if anyone has access to the PC Game Pass version, I would recommend playing that over any other as they actually went back and added some extra features, like a first person mode and reduced movement bobbing (which can be very egregious). The PC version also throws in the DLC for free, unlike if you get the game from the console game pass, where it's also stuck to the XBO resolution/performance metrics (720p/30 FPS IIRC).
Anyway, it's not a bad effort for the studios first game. IMO the sequel vastly improves upon the formula and does almost everything better.
Eagerly looking forward to see if Tango will ever revisit this for a proper third game, and yes I know Ghostwire started project development as TEW3, but the final game has absolutely nothing to do with the franchise at all.
What do you guys think about this franchise ?