The one positive thing I can say is that a combination of snappy controls and excellent motion blur usage makes the 30 FPS mode feel about as good as it can feel, so kudos to them on that one. These issues won’t affect PC Gamers with decent rigs, and I can’t speak for the PS5 but as far as the Xbox series X goes… it’s not great. It’s genuinely baffling to go back and watch clips of last-generation games from 7+ years ago that look better. Quality mode barely looks any better, still coming in at a massively blurry low resolution, but with the frame rate chopped in half. They say it’s 1080p but I’m not sure if that’s a maximum target and genuinely – I’m not kidding – this game in Performance Mode looks like an early Xbox One title, and compared to the PlayStation 4, the Xbox One was the underpowered console. Performance mode looks atrociously blurry but runs at 60 FPS. There are two Graphics modes: quality and performance, and both of them are pretty bad. I currently don’t know if there are any major differences between the PlayStation 5 and Xbox versions but the Xbox series X version is not fantastic. It played better, looked better, and ran better than evil West running on an Xbox series X – and I repeat: I’m talking about Ragnarok running on a last-generation console. I played it on a last-generation console. The problem though, is that while I played God of War Ragnarok. Well, here comes a Ragnarok comparison again. The characters are about as flat as the game’s attempt at quirky humour.īut it’s a video game right so there should be at least some visual splendour to go with the experience… right? I Can’t See Sh– The story, while passable isn’t too much to write home about either. Gameplay then is not quite what I was hoping for. Well… I’ll take it – winning’s winning, right? At one point I was getting frustrated with a battle where I was dying over and over again, that is until the giant enemy in the battle I was in completely glitched out and just got stuck in one place, eventually falling through the level and just disappearing. That stick and your thumb just don’t want to be doing those two things at the same time. There’s just certain combinations of buttons that don’t work well in fast-paced combat such as having to click in the right stick you use for looking around to interrupt enemy attacks. As I said the controls are similar to that of God of War but anytime they deviate from that formula they actually get very unintuitive. Ain’t nobody got time fo dat.Ĭombat does have its moments of fun and chaos but many of the battles are badly balanced, frustrating, predictable and repetitive. It also has some dated design choices like audio notes that can only be listened to while staring at a static page in the menu. While the idea is there, the execution isn’t quite as grand. Now if you’re thinking “Hey more God of War, that’s great!” don’t get too excited. Heck the button layouts are even mostly the same – well almost. You run through levels you smash crates you solve some basic puzzles, and you fight monsters using a mix of close and ranged attacks. What surprised me was some of the similarities with Evil West and God of War’s formula, especially with Ragnarok so fresh on my mind. Hang on a second… a Hugh Jackman looking Vampire Hunter – haven’t I seen this one before? Keep reading, or watch the video review instead! Set in an alternate Wild West you play as a Hugh Jackman looking vampire Hunter Cowboy whose dad runs the show until the vampires (or ticks as they call them) decide to dial that shit up to eleven. Hours into the game I’m sad to say that where Evil West isn’t a terrible game, it’s possibly my biggest disappointment of the year. It’s a concept and setting that’s full of potential I loaded into Evil West for the first time, genuinely excited, intrigued and hoping to discover the year’s sleeper hit. At a quick glance, Evil West gives off a bit of a Gears of War with Cowboys and Vampires vibe, with its fantasy Gothic Western setting and brutal looking third person action.Įvil West caught my eye early on, we even put it on our list of notable upcoming games earlier this year.
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