#OUTLAST WHISTLEBLOWER DLC NEW GAME SOFTWARE#
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To sum up, despite sabotaging some of its own level design and offering no new gameplay, Whistleblower introduces a new character that takes the Outlast universe for a plunge. I was impressed by Red Barrels’ innovation. But, seeing a glimpse of a horrific fate that you’re about to experience is much more brutal, and brings the psychological horror to hit home as hard as the actual running and hiding. The two are distinct entities, and the former is often hamstrung by the fact that you’re playing a game, and the hallucination being experienced by Oswald Mandus or Alan Wake or whomever poses no literal threat. The reason why this is important is because Red Barrels has found a way to make psychological horror just as scary as survival horror. I’m not just talking about blood smeared on a wall and then getting chased by a monster I’m talking about seeing others suffer in a means planned for you, and you have no choice but to sit there and watch. Sights and sounds in this game are arranged with a precision that chills me to the core. The interesting thing about Whistleblower is that its worst horror doesn’t stem from running and hiding, but the unwilling comprehension of torture. This made Whistleblower more predictable, and less terrifying. In Whistleblower, you encounter a handful of especially dangerous inmates, but it’s a one-and-done-style set of encounters. Rather, they ducked in and out of the game’s storyline at random intervals, so you never truly knew when the threat was over, until the game was over.

#OUTLAST WHISTLEBLOWER DLC NEW GAME SERIES#

One of the design elements that made Outlast so scary was that you didn’t face enemies in a series of linear encounters. That same design philosophy applies to the special one-of-a-kind monsters and inmates you’ll find in Whistleblower. The DLC is essentially a sequence of cordoned-off areas in which you deal with a few threats before moving on. There was only one area, a maze-like series of corridors, that contained any of the same back-and-forth found in the main game. In lukewarm contrast to Outlast’s hub-centric level design, Whistleblower felt much more linear. To that end, Whistleblower is loaded with places to hide, but you’ll only spot them all if you’re either clever or hopped up on adrenaline. Whistleblower’s gameplay is congruent with the main game’s, down to the infrared video camera.Īs Waylon, you are unarmed against the monsters running the madhouse.

I do, however, appreciate that Waylon quietly closes doors instead of just slamming them like Miles Upshur does, but that’s more for my own sanity than any discernible impact on gameplay.

#OUTLAST WHISTLEBLOWER DLC NEW GAME SOFTWARE#

The software engineer component of the narrative isn’t played up at any point except the very beginning. Any sort of deviation from the beaten, bloodied path we’ve already seen in the main game. I was hoping that, as a computer engineer, I would be able to, I dunno, hack some systems or rewire some lights.

Whistleblower‘s gameplay is identical to Outlast, and I was a bit disappointed by that. You know, whenever they’re not busy drowning scientists in toilets, bashing guards’ heads in with bricks, or forcing orderlies to eat their own colons. In some ways, Outsmart would’ve been a more suitable title for this series, as you’ll be doing just that against the monsters. Just like in the main game, your only means of survival are to run and hide. Waylon is a silent witness to some pretty heavy shit. I don’t feel like playing Operation right now, thank you. Unfortunately, Waylon’s cutthroat superiors are unimpressed with his handiwork. Disgusted by the company’s brutal experiments on the asylum’s patients, Waylon decides to send the anonymous tell-all email that begins the events of Outlast, making you the eponymous whistleblower. This time, your character is Waylon Park, a freelance software engineer under contract by the insidious Murkoff Corporation. Outlast: Whistleblower is a piece of DLC content featuring a new story and characters, set in the same remote asylum that journalist Miles Upshur investigates in Outlast. We’re about to return to the Mount Massive Insane Asylum, which is a facility not unlike the one Red Barrels should be incarcerated in for genius, if truly terrifying, horror-craft. Whistleblower is a DLC that was crafted and released not long after the main game. Who here thinks it’s been too long since I reviewed a horror game? (Raises both hands).Īnd, of course, if you missed the title card, this review brings us back to the universe of the scariest game I’ve ever played, and one of my favorite horror games: Outlast. It’s finally here! That damn review I kept promising to write like a good blogger, but kept pushing off like an asshole. Risk your life and your sanity to expose the horrors of an insane asylum.

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