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Unleash the cowboy of war – Evil West Quick Review
2K View2022-11-24Four years ago, if you would have told me that at the end of 2022 I’d be playing a kick-ass game that’s a essentially a hybrid of the PlayStation 2- and 3-era God of War games and the Red Dead Redemption series, well, I would have told you to build me a time machine and get me to the end of 2022, STAT.
Evil West is the rather unassuming name of this game that I would risk bending time and space to play.
THE STORY
A dark menace (i.e., vampires doing vampire things) runs rampant across the plains of the Old West. Players are placed in the boots of a gun-slinging vampire killer named Jesse (of course), a rootin’-tootin’, monster-slayin’ superhero who fights these bloodthirsty atrocities with panache in visceral, explosive combat.
PLATFORMS
Evil West is out now on PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. I played the PC version, and it ran without a hitch or a glitch.
TIME PLAYED
I put about five hours into Evil West, and I easily could have put in five more without batting an eyelash. In that five hours, I played through the first three and a half levels of vampire slaying goodness.
WHAT’S AWESOME
• Just about everything, really. Pretty much from the instant I began until I put down the controller, I was smiling while playing Evil West…and that’s because, in my mind, this is what a current-gen action video game should be.
• Concise narrative. It has cutscenes and the like, but it doesn’t dwell on them long before you’re back in the fast, fluid, and well-controlled action.
• On-point combat. The combat is both super slick and fair: anytime I died I knew it was because I screwed up and not that the game was cheating or anything like that.
• Cool visuals. A cherry on top here is that everything looks fantastic in this steampunk version of the late 1800s that has a serious bloodsucker problem.
• I’ve got a plan, Arthur! The main character, Jesse, both looks and sounds like Arthur Morgan, the ill-fated protagonist from Red Dead Redemption II. Well, facially he reminds me of Arthur, but his clothes look like he stole them from Castlevania’s Belmont clan. It’s not the same voice actor, but he’s doing a damn fine Arthur impression in Evil West.
WHAT SUCKS
• No sniping? The first weird thing about the combat in Evil West is that you can’t pick off enemies from far off that you can literally see roaming about. You have to be in the “combat zone” to engage them properly and the game actually blocks your shots if you try to snipe them from afar.
• Obvious combat zones. In the vein of games like Gears of War, Mass Effect, and the aforementioned God of War, I could immediately tell from the level design of certain areas when I was headed into a fight. I’m sure some people dig this, or are comforted by these visual hints/clues, but I’d prefer surprises.
SHOULD YOU PLAY IT?
Definitely. If you don’t like Evil West then you don’t like fun…and I feel sorry for you. There’s an old saying about being a “man’s man” which essentially means that the person you are referring to is the epitome of masculinity. Well, to me, Evil West is a “video game’s video game”—it has everything that a top-notch game needs to be successful. Beyond a couple minor quibbles, I think it is the epitome of what an action video game should be in the twenty-first century. It deserves to succeed and not get lost in the overabundance of fantastic titles being released during the holiday season.
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Cowboy, Vampires, Doom, Dark Souls | Evil West - Full Review
🟩Pros
+fluid and snappy combat
+focused linear map design
+keeps it fresh from start to end
+unlimited ammo, so you can focus on the action
+full of personality, with its mixing of different genres
🟥Cons
-no manual saves
-underwhelming story
Evil West is a newly released third person twisted mashup of all the gritty genres that we all hate to love. Steampunk, Western, Supernatural Horror, Gothic, Souls-like, Shooter, and the like.
lyndonguitar3K2022-11-23
Evil West Review - How Bad Was It Really?
Evil West is a third-person shooter from Flying Wild Hog that throws you headfirst into a vampire hunting time. We take control of Jesse Rentier, one of the last agents in a monster-hunting institute. I have quite a lot to say about MR Jesse and the rest of cast. Evil West is one of my favorites when it comes to cowboy games like the idea is really there feels like something out of a the Evil Movie franchise when the main character Ashley is fighting off hordes of demons and Evil West stars Jesse Rentier the main character who is fighting off hordes of vampires or as the game world calls them Ticks, essentially America has been fighting off the Sanguisage or simpler name there vampires for some time now. Thanks to the building of Rentier Institute we found a way of fighting back the vampiric horde. Evil West is 16 missions long and brings the best blend of the wild wild west and the supernatural, Jesse Rentier is equipped with an electric gauntlet his father created and a plethora amount of weapons that was built by the institute. Your job is to stop the vampire princess Felicity as she shoots for revenge on humanity to bring on the new age of vampires.
Chaotic Inc. 3372024-05-27
Hunt vampires, with style | Evil West - Short Review
Welcome to Evil West. A third person twisted mashup of all the gritty genres that we all hate to love. Steampunk, Western, Supernatural Horror, Gothic, Souls-like, Shooter; you name it, Evil West has got it.
Evil West is set in an alternate version of Old Wild West America, with vampires and monsters battling against steampunk tech powered cowboys for supremacy. You control Jesse Rentier, a relatively established Vampire Slayer and heir apparent to the Rentier Institute, a monster hunting organization founded by his forefathers and now led by his father, in their quest to eradicate the land of monsters.
lyndonguitar3K2022-11-22
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"if you don't like evil west then you don't like fun"-🤓
2022-11-25
Author likedJust completed it. Enjoyed the old vibe. The game may feel a bit little repetitive. But the combat is crazy fun. Also do note that it's not a long game it's about 12hrs max to complete it fully
2022-11-25
Author likeddid they pay you or something? why are you dick riding this hard?
2022-11-25