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:
Developer: Flying Wild Hog
Publisher: Focus Entertainment
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