9/20/2023 0 Comments Evil west game pass![]() ![]() The gauntlet is a versatile weapon, allowing for charged attacks, pulling enemies close to you, and an ultimate ability in “supercharged mode”. Combat while tense, involves lots of dodging and blocking, and it doesn’t always feel the most engaging. Though you won’t have access to all of them until well after halfway through the game. Flying Wild Hog gives you a lot of tools for use in combat. Things are good when you’re in the groove of combat, but things are bad when you’re in these exhaustive mini-boss encounters. You’ve got a pistol for fanning, a shotgun for pushing back enemies, and a fast-firing crossbow for less damage. ![]() Guns are treated as a last resort or a secondary weapon to fight these supernatural creatures. Evil West focuses heavily on melee with the use of the gauntlet, a device that packs a literal punch while also imbued with electricity. For example, there’s no manual reloading or quicktime events. It’s also not a traditional first-person shooter, especially in its controls. The game is arcadey and old-school in design, which comes with both good and bad. This is where a game like Weird West excels, is that you can really soak up and immerse yourself into the world, here you’re shuttled off to the next area every thirty minutes or so. On the normal difficulty, it takes about ten hours to see the end, and for the credits to roll. There’s lots of deserts and ghost towns you’ll visits, but there’s also mines, train wrecks, mountains with an aurora borealis, spooky forests, and even oil fields. ![]() This is a level-based game, with sixteen in total to take part in, offering a variety of locales. The base has a respec station, allowing you to reset everything, ensuring that nothing is permanent or stuck with a bad choice you made several hours ago. And there’s a lot of that here, where the world design is so inviting, you want to know more about it. It is however, a nice respite and some solid atmosphere and so intriguing because there’s a base hidden underneath the saloon. After a few visits there’s nothing to do at the hub besides moving the story forward. The events of the story are predictable, but it still manages to be a ride worth taking.īetween missions, the game will take you to Calico Town, a hub area to do some light exploring and receive most of the exposition the game wants to implore onto you. The game follows Jesse chasing leads and going wherever the railway takes you in order to stop these vampires from expanding. After a vampire and his daughter cause a major disturbance, everything is set in motion to put a stop to these horrors once and for all before it spreads. Jesse’s father wants him to take over, but Jesse is a hands-on kind of guy that doesn’t want a desk job. The institute is devoted to protecting the nation from the supernatural, and researching ways to stop it. You’ll fill the boots of Jesse Rentier, son of the father who founded the Rentier Institute that’s founded by the government. When you’re in the flow of combat things are good, but those good times don’t last and Evil West is just an ultimately forgettable adventure. While this an interesting premise, Evil West is a middling third-person shooter with melee combat that doesn’t do enough to make a lasting impression. Taking place in an alternate history Old West where the occult is as normal as breathing. ![]() I was reminded a lot about Darkwatch while playing this, not just because of its setting, but that it also felt like a game from a bygone era, for better and worse. Evil West is the third Flying Wild Hog game this year, and it’s not quite the barn burner I was hoping it’d be. ![]()
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