Evil West Review (PlayStation 5)

For this Evil West Review, we attempt to rise up and become a Wild West Superhero, eradicate the vampire threat in a visceral, explosive style and save the United States! Behind the facade of the Old West, we are the final line between humanity and a deep-rooted terror that now emerges from the shadows.

Evil West Review Pros:

  • Glorious graphics.
  • 33.75GB download size.
  • Platinum trophy.
  • You get the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation 5 versions of the game.
  • Graphics mode – performance and quality.
  • Aim support – on/off, lock on target, and aim snap strength slider.
  • Controller settings – Invert axis and sensitivity sliders, swap shoulder buttons/left and right stick and/or directional controls.
  • Subtitles settings – on/off, subtitle size slider.
  • Arachnophobia setting – on/off.
  • Hud scale slider.
  • Four difficulties – Story, normal, hard, and Evil.
  • True death is Iron man mode where dying will delete all your progress.
  • Two modes – single-player and online multiplayer.
  • Wild West world full of Vampires and Werewolves.
  • You play as a field agent that is tasked with ridding the world of these creatures, Your name is Jesse Rentier and your Dad is the Mayor of the town you protect.
  • Co-op play has you teamed up with Edgar Gravenor a retired field agent.
  • Third-person action gameplay.
  • Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
  • Combat tutorials are generally video clips.
  • Visceral melee combat.
  • Bucks is the in-game currency.
  • Cannonball is the act of uppercutting someone and then hitting them forward into an environmental hazard that kills them.
  • 16 missions.
  • Executing an enemy grants health and looks particularly badass.
  • Combos can be done with or without your gun and environmental hazards.
  • Can skip cutscenes.
  • Co-op allows you to share all found bucks and revive each other.
  • Good voicework.
  • Guns – you have a close-range pistol for melee combat combos mostly and a rifle that has sights and long range.
  • You can replay levels and each one shows what Collectibles you have and haven’t found.
  • Weak spots will glow on enemies when aiming down sight.
  • Enemy attacks flash when you can interrupt them with a kick.
  • Earn EXP and level up to get skill points to go into a tree to unlock new abilities.
  • Massive boss encounters.
  • Use bucks to buy weapon upgrades.
  • The Gauntlet weapon is your metal encased glove that you use in melee combat and can be upgraded and even have electricity within it.
  • You can reset your perks and upgrades at the designated machine as often as possible.
  • Hidden loot within levels.
  • Chests come in regular with bucks in em and unique harder-to-find ones that grant more bucks and a perk.
  • Find and equip new costumes and weapon skins.
  • Stunning locations are full of detail and grim splendor.
  • Ever so slight puzzle elements.
  • The weight of the combat is meaty and satisfying.
  • Plays like a Gears Of War style game.
  • The pause and quit menu will say the last time the game autosaved.
  • Chaining kills never felt so good!
  • You get so many guns and variations that you are basically a one-man army by the end, from flame throwers to guns to electric combos and grenades.
  • Generous checkpoint system.
  • The Co-op mode scales the difficulty.

Evil West Review Cons:

  • Performance and quality settings require a game reboot.
  • Cannot rebind controls.
  • Doesn’t have any settings for blood/gore and swearing.
  • Only a few enemy types.
  • No manual save so you are at the mercy of the autosave.
  • Invisible walls.
  • The slight learning curve as the combat does have a sense of finesse about it.
  • Won’t let you shoot enemies down below you.
  • Telltale fight areas.
  • In Co-op, only the host keeps the progress and the co-op partner loses everything.
  • The slowdown happens and seems to happen more in cutscenes.
  • At times your character’s lips don’t even move when talking.
  • The actual cutscenes are full of hard switches and are rather disorientating.
  • The game is not as open as it appears.
  • Fighting a lot of enemies at once is exhausting.

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Evil West:

Official website. 

Developer: Flying Wild Hog 

Publisher: Focus Entertainment

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Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!