There are four quick inventory slots that which can be filled with health syringes, guns and the game’s signature crossbow that can be customized with explosive, shock and harpoon bolt variants that make up part of the game’s crafting system.Īfter being submerged in a corridor that filled with blood (pulled from The Shining, but chilling nonetheless) and being hunted by a deformed wraith girl with the limbs of a giant spider, I continued onto the second part of the demo taken from chapter 8 of the final game. The solution to this is immolation by virtue of matches, one of the game’s many scarce resources. Blasting his skull apart with a carefully aimed pistol shot was enough to see him fall, but I was soon to realize that anything other than a clean headshot results in your target rising slowly back to their feet.
The demo’s first cinematic encounter is with an engorged doctor, gleefully operating on an equally repulsive inhuman corpse. On first impressions, The Evil Within is shaping up to be a survival horror fan’s best worst nightmare.
The enemies, which shamble and threaten with greater impetuous than traditional undead foes, are fleshy nightmares garbed in barbed wire, gore-drenched rags and armed with a manner of blunt objects. Despite prior warning about the game’s fear factor over email by Bethesda’s PR, the first part of the demo was still an unsettling introduction to The Evil Within's morbid, vile and twisted world that delicately balanced the cerebral scares of J-horror with grindhouse depravity.
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