New Game Network: "The Evil Within 2 doesn’t have anything new to offer the franchise. It fails to be frightening, the narrative is a mess, and it only manages to keep its head above the blood water with some decent survival-action mechanics."
The Outerhaven writes: While I hold Bethesda's The Evil Within series as some of the best Survival Horror games available, it's clear that Bethesda has no intention of revisiting the series. While Capcom is still working on its Resident Evil series, I look back at the now-dead survival horror series from Bethesda, wondering why the series was left wide open, and yet still not revisited.
An OK horror series left behind. It had some great ideas, but it never knew how to play to its strengths. Instead, it came out like just another RE4 clone.
I would love for a third entry to come out, but it needs to learn to lean in on the psychological aspect and move away from the generic "pew pew" ideology at the center of the gameplay loop. It doesn't need to abandon it; it just needs to put it into better context, is all.
Also, try a first-person perspective instead. Too many 3rd-person games with nothing to offer but an avatar taking precious screen space. At least make it an actual option and not that janky-ass mess the second game pretended to have.
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Having played through this game in it's entirety, and then playing the first one AFTER playing this one, The Evil Within 2 is definitely NOT a 6.3/10 game. It's an 8-9 game. I don't understand how people could give this game a score so low. It makes no sense.
How can anyone give this game below an 8
I mean if you don't like it fine but to say it dosen't have improvements and the like when it clearly does. I've seen people rate this worse then the original.
It's an o.k. stealth shooter but the original and it's dlc is where the true sadistic horror is at
"Narrative is a mess" what exactly was hard to understand? This game was solid. I went in completely blind on nightmare. I just beat it about 6 hours ago. While at times a bit cheesy as far as lines go, great game. 8 is as low as I could see an honest review go. Even 7 but my god would you be picky.
Side note: This is really about the Redguard dlc isn't it?