I had to restart playing this game multiple times, because I gave up on it, and let me tell you, it very rarely happens with me. Here's why. First, let's go through the game's good points: it has decent graphics for it's time, the music is great, the voice acting is awesome (as usual), and it concludes the great story of the series. It's a very promising game, until you start playing with it. The whole experience is ruined by the wretched, godforsaken camera and controls. It's mindblowingly awful. It was decent enough in Soul Reaver 1 and 2, why the hell did they change it? It's a fixed camera now (like in Devil May Cry), and the controls are relative to the camera. Well, it can work, but not in this game. This game changes camera view every friggin' corner, and I have to adapt to it. A lot of times, I want to make a precise or timed jump, but I fail over and over and over again, because I can't see where I'm going. The camera usually shows our protagonists frontwise - it defies all gaming logic and common sense. Sometimes the camera (and the controls with it) changes during mid-jump. Try to make a precise jump now! A lot of times simple tasks like going through a door or jumping on a single platform prove to be frustratingly difficult. And yes, I know that it exists a trainer, which "fixes" the camera (even the GOG version includes it), but somehow, it make things worse, and glitches out the game. In fights, usually I can't see whom I'm attacking. Speaking of fights, they are monotonous, braindead button mashing. There are no reason to kill anybody (except when the game forces me to do, or I really need some souls absorbing), so I just run through everybody. And don't get me started on the glitches - I've fallen out from the map multiple times, got stuck in corners and obstacles all the time. If you really want to know what happens in the last of this great series, read it in Wikipedia, or watch a walktrough in Youtube. Don't torture yourself with this "game".
If you are searching for the ultimate Worms experience, look no further! It has a single player campaign, but in multiplayer, where this game really shines! Build your own map, customize your team, use all the silly weapons like the Old Woman, the Supersheep or the Concrete Donkey. Let the carnage begin! Hallelujah!
This game has an interesting setting, and starts out great. The atmosphere is tense and not relies on too many jump-scares. Your feeling of helplessness is downright terrifying in some points, almost like in Amnesia. Although, this tension is loosen from the middle of the game, where the frightening hide and seek turns into a running marathon, where you have to figure out where to go on the spot, or you die. This is more frustrating than scary. In addition, the game is rather short, you can finish it under 5 hours for the first playthrough. The game is fully linear, so the replay value suffers a lot, too. Nonetheless, Outlast definitely worths a playthrough for any horror fan, pick it up when its on sale.
It's been 2 years since I last played this, but I'm still baffled about how ridiculously fantastic this game is. It's one of the best games I've ever played, and it deserves every hype, every attention, every award, every penny, and every minute of your life. Just buy it, and you'll see. Come on, what are you waiting for? BUY IT already!
