THE EVIL WITHIN / 20 SEP 2014
TGS 2014: WILL SURVIVAL HORROR MOUNT A COMEBACK WITH THE EVIL WITHIN?
Resident Evil might not have been the first survival horror game per se (that distinction likely should go to Sweet Home on the Famicom), but it was the first one of real consequence, and its effects resonate through to today, nearly two decades later. Sure, its sequels – Resident Evil 4 in particular – completely nailed what it was to be survival horror, but future iterations, like Resident Evil 5, lost the plot completely, abandoning the spirit of what once made the franchise the face of the genre. To me, Dead Space is the last truly great survival horror game I played that just got it, and I’ve come to accept that I’m probably not going to get what I’m looking for with Resident Evil moving forward (I didn’t even bother with RE6). This is perhaps why I was left so full of anticipation after briefly going hands-on with The Evil Within at TGS, known by the much cooler title Psycho Break in Japan.
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