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The Evil Within 2 Review

23 October 2017 | 2 comments | By Chris J Capel

The best survival horror this year?

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The Evil Within 2

Sequel to The Evil Within.

Genre:: Action
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Publisher:: Bethesda Softworks
Developer:: Tango Gameworks

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Evil Within 2 Game Director Explains Why The...

BrokenNoah

Oh noes! Doom and gloom! Doom and gloom! Vidyagems are dying! Seriously though, in the last ten to fifteen years how many real (or good) AAA survival horror games have there been anyway? There's the staple like Resident Evil and Silent Hill. There's Dead Space (or at least the first two) and then what else? Maybe Until Dawn? I'm not fairly sure where AA ends and AAA games start. I don't mean to be dismissive but even then, AAA survival horror is few and far between. We probably lost Dead Space and Silent Hill for good but as mentioned in the article, there are games like Outlast and Observer picking up the slack so in the end does it matter if it's AAA or indie? Sure production value is different but that doesn't guarantee a good game.

The Evil Within 2 Review

The_Tingler

Either I stopped noticing it or they've fixed it! Either way I'm fine. South Park: The Fractured But Whole, which I'm playing at the moment (and otherwise loving), has far worse and more noticeable slowdown.

The Evil Within 2's Denuvo DRM was cracked in a...

wolfsrain

Let me point towards the Doom 2015 sales with Denuvo and how those sales exploded when the game was cracked and Bethesda decided to remove a redundant protection. So, no. Most of the complaints are not from the people that want to pirate. I have personally over 1200 games only on Steam. Over 100 on Origin, 320 on GOG and 50 on uPlay. Some of the games that i have have Denuvo (Mad Max, Batman: Arkham Knight, DA:I GOTY - just to name a few). The worries are not linked only to performance (which is something that i can't say it's true or not, due to my PC being a bit of a beast). The worries are about what will happen with those games when the authentication servers will go down. Denuvo isn't the first company that tried to make DRM as their business. But look how many were before them, failed and now are a footnote. Denuvo will follow, but the publishers won't deem necessary to save their games. Just look how many games using GFWL are still gone, as the publishers/devs went bankrupt or are unwilling to patch the damn thing out of older games. So we've been there once. Also, the fact that it needs to check with the authentication servers now and then, doesn't exact inspire confidence. Not only that we don't know what data sends to servers, but you can't play the game if you are not connected to internet. Let's assume that i go on holiday for a month in an area with weak or no internet signal. That means that i can't play my game, because the damn thing couldn't access the authentication servers. So what good it does to me as a customer such a protection?! As for microtransactions and lootboxes...really?! I would rather not buy a game that is using them. I have the first Middle Earth: Shadow of War, but i won't touch the second (and, lo and behold, it is cracked, but i buy my games, i don't pirate them). If you like to be milked, please be my guest. Everyone is free to do whatever they want with their money. I work for my money, so i don't feel the need to throw them away, grossing the accounts of a selected few. Because the devs won't see much from the billions made from a hit game. Even worse, they are fired when the game is done and only a skeleton team is kept for patching and designing the objects for microtransactions and lootcrates. P.S.: if you've missed the news, not only that the games protected by Denuvo are cracked at launch, but now the patches are starting to appear, too. hence, pirates have an up-to-date game, with less hustle than legitimate customers have. And if you need proof of what i have in my gaming accounts i can glady provide.

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The_Tingler

It seems to be anyway! The Evil Within 1 certainly had moments of that but seemed to give up on it. I hope 2 continuing with it.

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