Waking up in a land where monsters are wandering about, Sebastian has to fight his way through a world of death and its close friend madness in order to understand what’s going on. Witnessing the killing of fellow police officers one after another, Sebastian is then attacked and loses consciousness. When Detective Sebastian and his partner rush to the scene of a gruesome mass murder, a mysterious, powerful force is lying in wait for them. (there’s more to come next week), Gematsu noticed Bethesda’s Japanese press release for Psychobreak (the game’s Japanese name) and reports the following about the story (don’t hold the translation against Bethesda): And wait a second…is that Evil Mirror-Verse Thor on the elevator with the bloody cape and spiked warhammer at 0:55?īut wait! It seems we may know a little more about The Evil Within after all: While Bethesda’s playing slow-drip with info about the game in the U.S. That said, don’t bet on a combat-free experience a la Amnesia: The Dark Descent. According to Mikami, “My team and I are committed to creating an exciting new franchise, providing fans the perfect blend of horror and action.” Plus: Barbed wire could be weaponized. Do we care that the game itself won’t look as authentic as the trailer? No, but I know it’s a pet peeve of video game purists.īethesda doesn’t want you thinking about weapons (for now). As Tom Chick notes, guns (and combat in general) are M.I.A. The idea’s reemerged in recent years as a kind of marketing adjunct (I’m thinking of Microsoft‘s Halo 4-related trailer and miniseries, or Bethesda’s Skyrim thing). It’s a live-action trailer live-action game trailers are rare. Live action games vanished decades ago, post- The 7th Guest, Gabriel Knight and Wing Commander III. Speaking of Hellraiser… That blood-birth sequence at 1:28 is so Frank…until the extra limbs and tentacles show up. People in body suits (or armor, or weird monster-skin) are also creepy. Rubber suit guy in American Horror Story was spooky enough before he hopped into bed with Connie Britton…and so is Pinhead’s glass-covered cenobitic cousin at 0:38 here. Tool benches are creepy. Especially ones with bolt cutters and needle-nose pliers. Of course anybody sitting in a dim-lit, desolate mental ward torquing barbed wire can’t be right in the head. The Thing lives! Slithering musculature? Fingers like knitting needles? Arms and legs where arms and legs should never be? Take a bow, John Carpenter, you’ve inspired another alien, ax-murdering, Lovecraftian freak. With a bit of luck, this’ll just be backstory and we won’t have to slog through another building with padded cells, hellish boiler rooms and sepulchral torture chambers.
#THE EVIL INSIDE 2013 WINDOWS#
The psyche ward from hell: shots of darkened hallways in a grubby institutional facility with rogue wheelchairs, jaundiced cage-lights and scuffed doors with tiny square windows (cribbed from a ScrapeTV image of a “mental hospital door”?). Poor Bach, relegated to backgrounding shock video. Recall the scene in The Silence of the Lambs where Anthony Hopkins pounds the life, literally, out of his captors, as Glenn Gould’s 1955 performance of the Aria from Bach’s Goldberg Variations plays. The sublime against the disturbing: the vinyl LP of Bach’s “Air on the G String” played on a harpsichord. Let’s talk about the trailer, which despite wallowing in cliché, actually manages to be scary. Plus: God Hand and Vanquish, both games you might not have played, but should.
#THE EVIL INSIDE 2013 SERIES#
I’m no great fan of the early Resident Evil games, but Mikami wrote and directed Resident Evil 4, which is where the series got interesting. Not that titles need be profound “BioShock Infinite” isn’t exactly lyric poetry.īethesda says the game’s in development at Tango Gameworks - a newish game studio founded in 2010 by Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami - with a projected 2014 release (for both current and next-gen consoles). More likely it won’t, because, well, “Dead Space,” “Resident Evil,” “Deadly Premonition” and all that. Bethesda confirmed the game’s existence this morning after teasing two oblique looping VINE clips - one juxtaposing barbed wire and Bach, the other depicting a mysterious figure and combusting sunflowers. If you’re just joining, meet The Evil Within, a survival-horror game that’s no relation to the 1970 film starring Bollywood actress Zeenat Aman, the 1993 film starring Drew Barrymore, or the fifth episode of Blade: The Series. You got us to pay attention to something we otherwise might have tossed in the “yay, press release” bin.
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