Satsuma wrote:
1) Homefront (PC)
2) SUPERHOT VR (PSVR)
3) Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (PS4)
4) Uncanny Valley (PS4)
5) Resident Evil 7: Not a Hero DLC (PS4)
6) Layers of Fear (PC)
7) Genital Jousting - Story mode (PC)
8 ) Corgi Warlock (PC)
9) Until Dawn: Rush of Blood (PSVR)
10) Gravity Rush 2 (PS4)
11) Playerunknowns Battlegrounds (X1X)
12) The Evil Within 2 (PS4)
TEW1 is brilliant. TEW2 is good but worse than the original in almost all respects.
TEW1 had amazing enemy designs and lots of interesting bosses. This hasn’t got that.
A lot was made in the reviews of the “open world” but TEW2 isn’t really open world. Well, you can go from the last level back to the beginning if you wanted to but it’s a fairly linear path through the game but with two largish levels you can wander about in and find some side missions if you’re that way inclined. I thought the open nature of the game was pretty good but I preferred the linear nature of the first game more: It took you on a ridiculous journey through hospitals, castles, cities, basements, torture chamber and so on but this place is stuck with generic rural town No. 17.
The shooting is good, though, and the item management and stuff is really great - just like the OG! I really liked playing the game. It’s less like Resi 4 than TEW1 but still feels fun and tense as the enemies cause you a bit of bother with little effort on their part. It’s certainly not easy and I like that.
Unfortunately when I wasn’t playing the game it was boring shit. The characters are the blandest generic video game hokum that I’ve seen in some time and the dialogue straight from Resident Evil 1. The cutscenes are boring and the new voice for the main character is fucking dreadful.
Finished in 13 hours which, I think, is about 10 hours less than it took me to finish TEW1 and that wasn’t “open world”. So, y’know, that’s probably a negative for open worlds, I think, maybe. The story was all wrapped up so there probably won’t be another TEW ever again. But that’s probably for the best since clearly this outing hasn’t had the love poured into it that the original had. I don’t think either sold particularly well on release. And that’s a real pity but if you don’t support these games we’ll end up MP games with loot boxes up the arsehole and a diminishing amount of AAA single player games.
It’s a solid 6/10.