5/29/2023 0 Comments Evil west wikiSo initially, I was down on Evil West the theme and setting and prominent crashed zeppelin early in the plot brought back a few vestigial memories of The Order: 1886, that I'd long thought solvent abuse has successfully quashed. Or maybe it's the fact that there's precisely one female character in the entire plot, whose every other line of dialogue is complaining about how the boys don't take her seriously enough, or just that the main character is a stock squinty, grumbly badass whose usual contribution to exposition scenes is to grunt, "English, doc!" whenever one of his pet tech nerds starts using language roughly as advanced as that of an instruction pamphlet for an electric beard trimmer. A lot of that could be the story, and the way it clunkily switches from gameplay to prerendered cutscene where the camera zooms in too close on characters as they massively overanimate, so it looks like Paul Greengrass shooting a documentary on submarine crews with Parkinson's disease. Happily, this is a war that can be fought by trudging through linear environments, getting into conveniently fenced-off battles with strictly regimented numbers of enemy units so yeah, it's another ghost train ride game where herds of wild contextual button prompts sweep majestically across the plains, and then politely queue up to squeeze down narrow passages of every imaginable variety.īut as implied earlier, setting aside, there's something terribly old-fashioned about Evil West that feels a bit PlayStation 3-era. And besides, he's got all their weapons strapped to his back, which would make it very difficult to sit in an office chair.įortunately, the agency is driven onto the back foot by a coordinated vampire assault, and Jesse finds himself on the frontlines of an all-out supernatural war, leading a now severely undermanned agency against the schemes of an insane vampire leader and the plans they have brewing behind their insidious magical glamor, or glamour that was the other thing the voice actors forgot to compare notes on. Said hero is Jesse Rentier, or Jesse Renti-ay - the voice actors never really reached a consensus on that one - vampire hunter in the Hugh Jackman Van Helsing mold, but without the excuse of cold European weather to justify wearing the entire stock of a camping supply shop at once, who refuses to take a desk job at HQ because he's a vampire hunter cop on the edge, and they need him out on the streets, etc. If you're confused, just remember: "weird" is rubbing your scrotum up and down the inside of a tureen "evil" is serving gravy out of it to your in-laws afterwards.Įvil West is a third-person action-adventure about a government agency in Wild West times, who must fight a secret war across the entire American continent against an organized race of vampires, despite only employing, like, two competent dudes who mostly hang out together, arguing over who has the most grizzled cowboy penis, and despite the agency's entire supply of weapons and gadgets being constantly worn by one of those dudes, so he waddles about the battlefield, rattling like a dodgy shopping cart full of Lego. The two games have absolutely no relation. Evil West is not to be confused with Weird West this isn't one developer exclusively making cowboy games and doing the Sonic thing where they just take the recurring franchise word and bolt a second word on the end. Spock has a beard, but I'm currently appreciating video games as a way to experience previous, more hopeful eras from history we can play World War II shooters to remember a time of noble camaraderie and Blitz spirit, Assassin's Creed IV to live out a boyish dream of the Golden Age of Piracy, and, of course, we have today's subject, Evil West, which immerses us in the wild and lawless days of 2010, when the Xbox 360 rode tall in the saddle, and people really didn't expect much from their third-person shooters. Maybe it's because we're living in the evil timeline where George Bailey never existed and Mr. This week in Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Evil West.
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