Outlast Review
Jun 2, 2014 8:51:13 GMT -5
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Post by PRIME Wrestling on Jun 2, 2014 8:51:13 GMT -5
This last week, I purchases the PS4, and the first game that I knew I had to get was Outlast. The minute I saw the trailer, it looked terrifying. The scenes looked disturbing, the plot was twisted, the graphics were amazing, and it did not disappoint. The minute the opening cut scene ended and I got out of my truck and walked towards the amount Massive Asylum, my heart started racing.
The plot: You're a journalist that gets a tip that there are inhumane experiments going on at Mount Massive Asylum. As any normal person would, you go to the most horrific looking place in your state in the middle of the night, by yourself, nothing but a night vision camera. Throughout the game, you must find paperwork and classified files, as well as batteries hidden throughout the map to keep your night vision camera on, because without it, most of the game would be impossible.
Red Barrel developed this game. They had a big part in developing the Assassin's Creed and Uncharted games.
The game begins with you having to climb to an open window and sneak in. From there, you must walk through closed doors...wait. Let me take a minute to appreciate the genius developing and build in this game. You can either slam a door open or open it slowly. Slamming a door open makes a patient turn around completely and know exactly where you are. Creeping it open keeps you hidden and able to slide by. Okay, now back to the game: one of the first things you see is a bunch of SWAT officers, on the edge of death, tied by their feet upside down and covered in blood. It's brutal. From there, out of no where, you get picked up by the big boss of the game: Piggy. Piggy is an eight-foot, 400 pound tortured patient that is covered in wounds and scars, and boy, is he pissed off. He will literally pick you up and throw you all the way down a hallway, and if you don't get up right away, good luck getting out of his reach.
The majority of this game is disappointment, and I mean that is the greatest way possible. Every door leads to a locked path, which causes you to find alternate routes to get the hell out of this place. There are some scary characters in this game, and it is awful being chased in this game. Sometimes, there will be nothing down a hall way. But, the minute you turn around to check behind you, and then go back on your path, there's a faint figure in the lens of your camera, and you know to run. Oh, and let's not forget the mad scientist. You get to the surgical ward of the place, and a nearly completely skinned man with knives finds you and ties you to a chair. Soon, you wake up in his room, and he slowly cuts your fingers off. It's horrible and graphic to watch. Of course, you escape, but this was one of the parts I was stuck on for a long time. While on this ward, you have to find the key to the elevator, find the elevator, and book it out of that place, all while he's chasing after you. The worst part was that you don't know if he's close. If you turn around, it slows you down and he might catch up, but if he's close behind you and you don't have time to turn around and check, he just puts his blade through you. Yeah, it's awful.
Another big part of the game is when one patient starts the cafeteria on fire. He begins a huge fire, in hopes to put a quick end to the horrors that happen in that place. You have to run and find the sprinkler system to turn it on, while Piggy comes back and chases after you. From there, once you complete starting up the sprinklers, you're walking on a ledge and touch a piece of burning wood, which causes you to drop your camera. This is when I had to pause the game because I was so pissed off at the story! I'm so far in, and I drop my camera. So, starting from there, you have to find your way down about two stories, in pitch black darkness, to find your camera. Since that part of the game until the end, your lens is really cracked and it makes it hard to see stuff sometimes. Another awesome feature in the game, even though it made me pretty mad when it happened.
Finally, you see the demonic and supernatural aspect of this game. Once you get to the chapel, two of the biggest monsters in the game are at the door, and they just let you walk by into the chapel. There, you see the Asylum's priest get crucified and a fire begin below his feet, while all of the mutated and burned patients are on their knees around him, praying silently. That was probably the most disturbing part of the game to me, besides walking up the stairs early in the journey, to a necrophiliac patient that was, well, let's say "taking" a decapitated body from behind. He looks you in the eyes and yells "You sick fuck! You wanna watch, don't you? Get out of here!", all well never stopping to "take" the body.
Soon, you find an underground laboratory of the asylum. You find a man in a wheelchair that's been alive for around two hundred years. He looks like death, but he's still breathing. In a tank in the basement, there is Billy, the two-hundred year old's son, which was close to death, but put into a chamber to keep him alive. Bully's ghost leaves his body and escapes the tank. When you see this happen, Piggy, the main boss of the game, is right behind you. This is where a shitstorm begins. Piggy gets picked up and thrown into an industrial fan and chopped to pieces by Billy. Billy the chases after you while you have to find the power switches and valves to the chamber that keeps Billy alive. Once you do all of that, you must run back to the main room of the laboratory and turn off the mainframe. From there, you watch Billy's body brutally suffocate in his own blood. Lovely, huh? But, Billy's ghost picks you up, but struggles, and while he was you high up, he disperses and you hit the ground. So let's recap: You've been trying to escape this place for about two whole days, you've had two of your fingers cut off and nothing to kill the pain, you've seen unimaginable things, and you've been dropped onto concrete from a very high height.
Soon, you wake up and are able to barely limp to the stairs and get up. The new instructions are to get out, so I know that this is it! I finally get out and back to my truck! Plot twist: the rest of the SWAT team have been going through this place while you have, but on the opposite sides. You're so happy to see these armed guards, but out of the what seems like an army, the professor that is in charge of this horrible place comes out and looks at you, silently, and says "Get him". Long story short, the happy ending was soon disrupted by you going through all of this just to get shot and killed!
Overall, I never get into video games. I could never get into Far Cry 3, any Dead Rising, Dead Island, or really any COD campaign. But I got this game Friday night, and by Sunday afternoon, I was finished. I had an eight hour span from about 8 PM to 4 AM where I played this game on Saturday night. This game was amazing and I loved it. This game is only $20 and is available on Steam. If you have a PS4 or a computer that can run really good graphics without frame rate issues, check this out. Also, there are some awesome and hilarious let's plays on YouTube. There is also DLC for this game called Whistleblower, which I guess is pretty much Outlast II. I'll have to get it next weekend. Until that review, thanks for reading!
The plot: You're a journalist that gets a tip that there are inhumane experiments going on at Mount Massive Asylum. As any normal person would, you go to the most horrific looking place in your state in the middle of the night, by yourself, nothing but a night vision camera. Throughout the game, you must find paperwork and classified files, as well as batteries hidden throughout the map to keep your night vision camera on, because without it, most of the game would be impossible.
Red Barrel developed this game. They had a big part in developing the Assassin's Creed and Uncharted games.
The game begins with you having to climb to an open window and sneak in. From there, you must walk through closed doors...wait. Let me take a minute to appreciate the genius developing and build in this game. You can either slam a door open or open it slowly. Slamming a door open makes a patient turn around completely and know exactly where you are. Creeping it open keeps you hidden and able to slide by. Okay, now back to the game: one of the first things you see is a bunch of SWAT officers, on the edge of death, tied by their feet upside down and covered in blood. It's brutal. From there, out of no where, you get picked up by the big boss of the game: Piggy. Piggy is an eight-foot, 400 pound tortured patient that is covered in wounds and scars, and boy, is he pissed off. He will literally pick you up and throw you all the way down a hallway, and if you don't get up right away, good luck getting out of his reach.
The majority of this game is disappointment, and I mean that is the greatest way possible. Every door leads to a locked path, which causes you to find alternate routes to get the hell out of this place. There are some scary characters in this game, and it is awful being chased in this game. Sometimes, there will be nothing down a hall way. But, the minute you turn around to check behind you, and then go back on your path, there's a faint figure in the lens of your camera, and you know to run. Oh, and let's not forget the mad scientist. You get to the surgical ward of the place, and a nearly completely skinned man with knives finds you and ties you to a chair. Soon, you wake up in his room, and he slowly cuts your fingers off. It's horrible and graphic to watch. Of course, you escape, but this was one of the parts I was stuck on for a long time. While on this ward, you have to find the key to the elevator, find the elevator, and book it out of that place, all while he's chasing after you. The worst part was that you don't know if he's close. If you turn around, it slows you down and he might catch up, but if he's close behind you and you don't have time to turn around and check, he just puts his blade through you. Yeah, it's awful.
Another big part of the game is when one patient starts the cafeteria on fire. He begins a huge fire, in hopes to put a quick end to the horrors that happen in that place. You have to run and find the sprinkler system to turn it on, while Piggy comes back and chases after you. From there, once you complete starting up the sprinklers, you're walking on a ledge and touch a piece of burning wood, which causes you to drop your camera. This is when I had to pause the game because I was so pissed off at the story! I'm so far in, and I drop my camera. So, starting from there, you have to find your way down about two stories, in pitch black darkness, to find your camera. Since that part of the game until the end, your lens is really cracked and it makes it hard to see stuff sometimes. Another awesome feature in the game, even though it made me pretty mad when it happened.
Finally, you see the demonic and supernatural aspect of this game. Once you get to the chapel, two of the biggest monsters in the game are at the door, and they just let you walk by into the chapel. There, you see the Asylum's priest get crucified and a fire begin below his feet, while all of the mutated and burned patients are on their knees around him, praying silently. That was probably the most disturbing part of the game to me, besides walking up the stairs early in the journey, to a necrophiliac patient that was, well, let's say "taking" a decapitated body from behind. He looks you in the eyes and yells "You sick fuck! You wanna watch, don't you? Get out of here!", all well never stopping to "take" the body.
Soon, you find an underground laboratory of the asylum. You find a man in a wheelchair that's been alive for around two hundred years. He looks like death, but he's still breathing. In a tank in the basement, there is Billy, the two-hundred year old's son, which was close to death, but put into a chamber to keep him alive. Bully's ghost leaves his body and escapes the tank. When you see this happen, Piggy, the main boss of the game, is right behind you. This is where a shitstorm begins. Piggy gets picked up and thrown into an industrial fan and chopped to pieces by Billy. Billy the chases after you while you have to find the power switches and valves to the chamber that keeps Billy alive. Once you do all of that, you must run back to the main room of the laboratory and turn off the mainframe. From there, you watch Billy's body brutally suffocate in his own blood. Lovely, huh? But, Billy's ghost picks you up, but struggles, and while he was you high up, he disperses and you hit the ground. So let's recap: You've been trying to escape this place for about two whole days, you've had two of your fingers cut off and nothing to kill the pain, you've seen unimaginable things, and you've been dropped onto concrete from a very high height.
Soon, you wake up and are able to barely limp to the stairs and get up. The new instructions are to get out, so I know that this is it! I finally get out and back to my truck! Plot twist: the rest of the SWAT team have been going through this place while you have, but on the opposite sides. You're so happy to see these armed guards, but out of the what seems like an army, the professor that is in charge of this horrible place comes out and looks at you, silently, and says "Get him". Long story short, the happy ending was soon disrupted by you going through all of this just to get shot and killed!
Overall, I never get into video games. I could never get into Far Cry 3, any Dead Rising, Dead Island, or really any COD campaign. But I got this game Friday night, and by Sunday afternoon, I was finished. I had an eight hour span from about 8 PM to 4 AM where I played this game on Saturday night. This game was amazing and I loved it. This game is only $20 and is available on Steam. If you have a PS4 or a computer that can run really good graphics without frame rate issues, check this out. Also, there are some awesome and hilarious let's plays on YouTube. There is also DLC for this game called Whistleblower, which I guess is pretty much Outlast II. I'll have to get it next weekend. Until that review, thanks for reading!