OUTLAST | Darkness...darkness everywhere!

Hey guys!

So today, I received a notice from my brother that made me happy, I guess.

I'm going to write about a game that has kept me on the edge of my chair, due to the tension, the stress, and the jumpscares.

I'm talking about OUTLAST, which at first was only released for the PC via STEAM, but later was also released for the new generation of consoles (first for PS4, and more recently for Xbox ONE)

It's a really awesome survival horror game, developed by Red Barrels Games.

The game consists in the following: you are a reporter named Miles Upshur, who gets a tip from inside the Mount Massive Asylum, a psychiatric hospital in Lake County, Colorado, where some weird things have been happening. Almost all the staff is dead and/or dismembered, the patients are either dead, or roaming around the place. Some of them are hostile, others are just as freaked out as the protagonist.

But there's something deeper in the story; there's some experimenting going on. The results of it being the creation of THE WALRIDER, created by the Murkoff Corp, using nanotechnology.

The goal of the game is to get the hell out of the asylum, surviving all the threats, including Chris Walker aka. The Big Guy, the Cannibal Twins, Rick Trager aka. The Doc, among others.

 

Even though, the character can't defend himself, and he can just hide and dodge, one fantastic ability the player has is using his videocamera, which has a NIGHT-VISION option. The game itself is really dark in some areas, and you have two choices, or rumbling around blind, or using this night vision thingy.

Some things that I find a bit annoying are; if you play it in the PC, the keyboard controls are a bit uncomfortable; and that even though the A.I. is pretty cool, sometimes you can detect the routines of some characters and becomes predictable.

Other than that, I love this game, and you should play it at least once. It's really freaky, but it's a cool experience, even if you're not a horror gamer per se.

Here's a little video, from IGN, where you can see the reactions of people playing for the first time.

It would have been awesome if the game was released by the time I was writing my thesis, but oh well.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vcgdl4xQ18

Enjoy!