![]() ![]() Outlast 2 also features some great sound effects, chilling ambient noise work, and crystal clear dialogue during conversations. The musical score is reminiscent of classic horror mainstays, right down to sequences where you can hear the iconic plucking of violin strings. The overall sound design is superb with plenty of quick musical beats to accompany jump scares. An in-game solution to enable or disable these effects would be far more desirable. ini settings to remove or lessen these effects but it is a step that players shouldn't have to do. To those wondering, it is possible to tweak. ![]() I suppose on some level the use of chromatic aberration makes some sense when you are viewing the world through your video camera, but it doesn't make much sense when the effect persists when simply viewing through your character's eyes. Chromatic aberration may be my most disliked visual effect to infest games from the past half-decade or so. The combined effect does result in a picture that is a bit on the soft side. Sadly, the game shipped with no way to easily disable effects such as chromatic aberration and a subtle noise filter. Couple that with seamless background loading between areas and you have yourself a game that, whether or not you like it, is difficult to put down. Even on my aging GTX 770, the game ran like an absolute champ on high settings at 1080p. The game is populated with all manner of abhorrent creatures that will try to hunt you down as you hide in dense corn fields and tall grass, make your way through putrid piles of viscera, and shimmy along perilous cliff sides towards your final destinations. Good luck navigating some areas if you run out of batteries for the night vision function on your near ever present camera. Locations such as caves or closets that you expect to be dark are indeed pitch black. I had a difficult time finding any real issue with how the game looked. On a technical level, Outlast 2 is a shining example of how you can make a good looking game without sacrificing performance. ![]() I'm talking about a cult leader that writes his own Bible, churches, crosses everywhere, the idea that your wife is birthing the Antichrist, and even flashback sequences that take place in a Christian school. They really throw the whole "religion is terrible" at you hard and fast throughout the roughly eight hour long campaign. While I am sure that many returning fans will probably eat this game up as it offers much more of the same, others will undoubtedly feel as disappointed as I did.Īs you may have already gathered, Outlast 2 is full of religious overtones, excessive gore, and garnished with tales of the apocalypse and no fewer than two warring cults. Newcomers to the franchise will probably wonder what all the hype is about and may find that their experience was worth the $30 asking price. And much like its predecessor, I found that Outlast 2 does next to nothing to advance the survival horror genre in any meaningful way. The best thing I can possibly say about Red Barrels' latest horror experience, Outlast 2, is that fans of the original will absolutely eat this game up. ![]()
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