The Evil Within footage could be an excerpt from an alternate take on
Outlast, with a gun instead of a camera and a dragging third-person limp instead of well-realised first-person body presence. A man enters a creepy institution and everything about the place tells us that something is wrong. The darkness, the fact that it seems deserted, the physically impossible door hinges…it’s all wrong. There is nothing surprising, shocking or interesting about the scenario, particularly for those of us who did play Outlast a week or two ago, because as soon as we’re told there’s an asylum in a horror game, we expect the scenario to unfold exactly as it does here.
