![]() This doctor, Rudolph Wernicke, has been experimenting with some sort of entity named "The Walrider" truth be told this guy is just a floating ghost thing and is probably my least favorite and most uninteresting chaser in the game but nonetheless you go to power down the machine only to get possessed by the Walrider, after which Wernicke tries to have you killed only for the Walrider to float out of Miles body and kill them all. ![]() He's one of the two more memorable "Chasers" in game along with Richard Traeger, a deformed doctor/Murkoff member with a habit for snipping genitals and disgusting past, of which I also need to bring something up here: this game is not afraid to show nudity and other freaky imagery and implications it's brutal in it's depiction of violence and isn't afraid to take it far beyond good taste and in a sense I kind of admire it for that and is probably the most effective part of the game to be honest.įrom here the game doesn't have much in the way of plot except you constantly trying to escape the asylum only for random occurrences to stop you from ever getting close, and as such it's mostly set piece to set piece until the very end, where you learn that the experiments being conducted involve a former Nazi doctor brought over from Operation Paperclip, in which the United States Government brought over former Nazi scientists to help develop technology in exchange for pardons and the like. You enter to figure out what's going on only for everything to have gone off the rails the prisoners have escaped and butchered the staff, and one in particular has it's sights set on you: Chris Walker, a former marine who wants to control the spread of "plague" by killing everyone he sees on site. You play as a silent protagonist/journalist named Miles Upshur as you receive an email detailing horrific experiments by the Murkoff Corporation at a psychiatric hospital called Mount Massive Asylum. The actual plot is probably the high point to me, because it does have interesting pieces they do with it but also they really went bats h i t insane with the shock factor that in a way, I admire the hell out of it. Speaking of the plot, the gameplay isn't really my favorite part of the game, in fact it's kind of hit or miss with me at times. The most interactivity you have is to pick up batteries for your handheld camera (which is both a plot device and a gameplay feature) where you need to get batteries so you can charge up your device and for the most part you get a lot of the plot via background details, as well as explain your protagonists feelings on the matter. But with that in mind, it's not bad persay as it does the job fine enough, I guess if I were to point out anything gameplay wise I didn't like is that in certain areas you can get lost really easily trying to find your objective and in certain chase sequences you can flub it and make a wrong turn you can't predict and die for that, an approach that I'm not the biggest fan of because it feels like repetitive trial and error. This will be the entire game, and as such if you don't mind it then I'm sure you'll do fine with it I'm one of those people that don't hate it but don't think it's particularly great as I much prefer to have more involvement in the horror so to speak. The gameplay is basically as said before a "Run and Hide" game, one where you are defenseless in general as you run around your environment, hide in lockers and under beds, and either go from Point A to B or move around a singular environment to try to find something in order to figure out a puzzle or another way forward. where you just have a whole a s s arsenal that you mow dudes down with. ![]() It isn't like Resident Evil or Condemned where you have to manage your resources to defend yourself and it's not like F.E.A.R. ![]() However, is it really worth playing? I guess it really depends on your preferred horror tastes. They succeeded as Outlast became super popular amongst horror enthusiasts, ESPECIALLY the Youtubers who love to overreact and scream at every little noise and jump scare. Outlast is a "Run Away and Hide" first person horror game by Red Barrels Inc., founded by former Ubisoft developers who wanted to create their own horror game.
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