FazzNoth Posted November 29, 2022 Posted November 29, 2022 Synopsis: A dark menace consumes the Old West. In solo or coop, fight with style in visceral, explosive combat against bloodthirsty monstrosities. Eradicate the vampiric hordes with your lightning-fueled gauntlet and become a Wild West Superhero. Developer Flying Wild Hog has a history of wild action games with the Shadow Warrior series. Evil West, a new IP from them, continues the same focus, but this time in a third-person perspective. The gameplay is still the focus, with a wild and over-the-top group of characters and narrative seeding everything together. Evil West feels like something from the previous generation, and I can't remember the last time I played such a linear action game, which may be a big selling point for some. You play as Jesse Rentier, heir to the Rentier Institute, a government-funded group of soldiers and scientists working to fight off vampires and other dark creatures in America in the 1800s. Jesse is a macho soldier type who prefers to do killing to diplomacy. When his father is attacked along with the whole institute earlier in the game, Jesse is set on a trip all around America as he kills thousands of vampires and looks for a way to find the one responsible for the attack.The first few levels of Evil West are relatively slow and could easily have been trimmed to a faster pace. Nonetheless, Jesse will have access to his core weapons when you've played for a little bit. A pistol, a rifle and his electro-charged fists. These fists will also do most of the talking, with a one-of-a-kind gauntlet allowing Jesse to stun enemies, electro-whip them, or to them from a distance and powered-up state, allowing him to rip enemies to shreds. Evil West's combat feels most inspired by DOOM as Jesse must balance different weapons and tools to take down ever-growing numbers of enemies as the game progresses. You must also prioritise high-damaging targets over weaker enemies and know which weapons will help you the most, saving your shotgun blast for the big guys before it goes into cool-down. Managing your resources is key to victory, even on normal difficulty. Using a high-powered weapon or skill early in a fight on a weaker enemy only to have a mini-boss spawn will make things unnecessarily harder for you. https://explosionnetwork.com/game-reviews/evil-west-review 1
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