This game is criminally underrated

[Swordgun]

- The open-zone design is great. Not too linear, not too open-ended
- Great atmosphere, and interesting setting and locations
- Good art direction
- Gameplay is fun
- Story is arguably good/good enough (I mean it's on par with RE, but who really cares)
- Bosses/mini bosses are interesting
- Enough enemy variety and weapons so you're not bored

I don't know why people don't talk about this game a lot. To me it's on par with RE games. In some aspect it's better.

[Akronys]

Maybe it was because I came from the first The Evil Within which has a terrible story (or I should say, characters, except Juli and Ruvik) but this game blew my mind. Sure, the writing at some parts is not that great, but overall Sebastian is much more deep now, "that" final boss is hard to kill but not for a gameplay reason. Not many games made me feel like that.

[LOL]

My experience has been different and this game feels like a beta release.

- Graphics arn't that good especially compared to RE village/biohazard
- Framerate is horrible i get half the fps as RE village and RE village looks literally 3x better, not just mesh quality but detail textures and ray tracing
- Hate not having quicksave/load I finally finished a long flashback part and read saving in the corner but next time I reopened the game it didn't actually even save it and I had to redo it all over again
- The flashbacks are kind of annoying and makes the game go much slower
- Twice now there's been an NPC or object in front of items/ammo making it difficult to get to
- The zombies in that big open world town area arn't scary at all and look like every other zombie game
- Cursor moves extremely slow/laggy in the menu

[LOL]

Not to mention the random crouches for no reason. The devs basically trying to copy Resident Evil but poorly executed

[LOL]

I'm in the EASIEST MODE and attack the multi-handed/header zombie woman FOUR times with the bottle attack and still not kill her. This game is BAD.

[MotherVicar]

it really isnt....honestly its such a youtube bot comment to claim everything is underrated even though a video has like 12 million views....

this game has an 80/100 metacritic, I would argue that is even overrated for what the game ultimately is, IF we had to really express it in points.


Art direction is very hit and miss, it looks fantastic at times and then just ugly at others.
Interesting setting? what some rural town in Murica? how is that interesting? have it take place is 60s Kasaghstan or so, then sure....but this?
Gameplay is fine enough, bit repetitive though (first game had those wacky moments of swimming and driving a bus, non of that here)

Enemy variety and boss and mini bosses are interesting....really? are they? what was interesting about them or varied about the enemies?, We fight the same animating zombies throughout the game with some being able to turn on fire...wow....and the bosses were "shoot the glowing part" and the ice ghost was never even explained....

The story is REALLY nothing to write home about, in fact I think one of the biggest short-commings is how much they hold back, remember what happened to Rudvic? that is how they should have found Lilly.