![]() ![]() It isn’t enough to have a creepy atmosphere alone, the gameplay must have characters that provoke actual terror in the player despite not being all that terrifying to look at. Whistleblower doesn’t really stray far from what you’d see in Outlast and it shouldn’t since it takes place before, during and after the events of the original story.įor comparison a recent horror title released on PS4, Daylight, shows how much The Whistleblower gets right. Visually Outlast has always been one of a kind with character and environmental designs that work together to craft one of the most eerie settings in all of video games. Outlast would be a very boring game without its highly detailed world with the unique patients of Mount Massive Asylum. This makes the enemies incredibly menacing as they should be since this is a horror game. We’re talking forced gender reassignment grotesque and more. Without giving anything away, this game can get very gross and disturbing. Whistleblower steps everything up a notch. The game’s atmosphere wouldn’t be creepy without Outlast’s trademark gore and negative imagery. ![]() That trick is creating a tense, nerve wracking atmosphere. That said, this one trick is amazing and thoroughly enjoyable. Sometimes you’ll respawn right next to the enemy you’re suppose to be avoiding, adding a cheap feeling to the game’s big cat and mouse mechanic. ![]() Its thrilling throughout but due to the Whistleblower’s short length it becomes even more apparent how much of a one trick pony Outlast is. That’s where the Whistleblower stumbles, the repetition of analyzing a location to discover where enemies can and can’t get to you. If you just finished the original Outlast then perhaps this gameplay is starting to wear on you but for those of us who finished it months ago Whistleblower is a fun step back into terror despite some repetition. You see a threatening figure in the distance, said threatening figure runs after you and you hide under a bed or in a locker. You don’t need me to explain how Whistleblower plays. Red Barrels must be given credit for intertwining the plot of Outlast and The Whistleblower with precision, it works very well and expands upon the game’s signature universe well. This also backs up the asylum’s name, Mount Massive, as Whistleblower shows how an entirely different set of terrifying events can be happening during the same time that Miles Upshur is doing his investigation. The story is unrelentingly bleak just as you would expect and introduces new villains and characters, resisting the temptation to rely on those who already appeared in the main game. The plot doesn’t have as many side details as the main Outlast campaign but Red Barrels delivers some solid backstory via the letters Waylon finds around the asylum, particularly the ones that reveal information about Waylon’s wife and family. ![]() For whatever reason, Park didn’t think a company that tortures people and creates supernatural entities that he can’t explain would be smart enough to spy on his emails. He’s the employee at the asylum who contacts the character from the main game’s story and is caught by the aslyum’s twisted staff. WhistleBlower follows what has to be the worst night of Waylon Park’s life. The Whistleblower DLC takes us back to Mount Massive Asylum for another terrifying adventure even if it isn’t as great as the game’s original story mode. The main game was a test in bravery just to get to the credits for those that played it. Perhaps its because the horror genre has dropped off in quality and popularity in the last decade that make a game like Outlast so terrifying and so ingenious. No single person who plays it looks at video games the same way again. Identifying with those poor souls fueled Waylon’s anger, and set the stage for his unmasking of Mount Massive’s rotten core.Īlthough Whistleblower tells the story that led to Outlast, it will actually stretch past the events of the first game to show the final chapter in Mount Massive Asylum’s story.Outlast is a scary game, that much is an understatement. Spending a couple of weeks at Mount Massive, during which he was unable to even talk to his wife and son thanks to strict security protocols, Waylon developed a deep-seated distrust of the profit-motivated scientists and doctors leading dangerous and irresponsible experiments on their patients. Whistleblower will let you play as Waylon Park, a software engineer under contract with Murkoff and the man who emailed journalists around the world – including Miles – at the beginning of Outlast. Outlast: Whistleblower will be available to download on PC and PS4 for $8.99 on (May 7 for Europe PS4). Red Barrels has released a new trailer for Outlast: Whistleblower, the first DLC for the critically-acclaimed survival horror title Outlast. ![]()
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