Much like the previous game, with the Insane difficulty level, you are tasked with completing the game using only one life. Outlast 2 certainly doesn’t hold your hand – there is little in the way of direct hinting, and no scenario is skip-able. Usually, repeatedly dying is the game’s way of telling you that there is some mechanic you have not utilized in the area yet. Some advice in such situations is to try something completely different, or to rush over to an area you hadn’t considered before. You might find yourself feeling frustrated as you die over and over again. Outlast 2 has a fairly generous checkpoint system, though there are a few chokepoints where the game resets you with hardly any supplies or time to react.
You’ll need to slow things down to learn enemies’ routes, and will need to survey the area in order to plan something of an escape route if you are spotted. Even on Normal, you should expect a decent challenge. The game’s difficulty level starts at normal, and ramps up to Hard, Nightmare, and Insane. Given all the macabre weapons and machinery seen in the world, it’s a shame there aren’t dynamic kills to see as your life is snuffed out. Death comes often in Outlast 2, ensuring that before too long, you’ve seen all the death animations the game has to show you. However, since most of the game’s biggest, story-progressing scares are heavily scripted, they kind of lose their jump factor after the second or third time. Outlast 2’s scares are pretty intense the first time you come across them. The audio scaling back is generally a sign that you are momentarily safe, but these are fleeting moments. The soundtrack feels like it was ripped out of some of the scariest stuff in Hollywood, yet since it reacts to what you do onscreen, the effect is a hell of a lot more terrifying than any movie.
#OUTLAST 2 MAIN CHARACTER FULL#
Outlast 2 features a full cast of voice actors, though occasionally the voice channel is a little too low. My inner nerd was so happy to see a cool nod to the screensavers of the ’90s on one computer in particular, as well.Ĭomposer Samuel Laflamme reprises his role for the sequel, and this is a game that you’ll want to turn the sound system up for. Blake appears to have flashbacks to a traumatic event from his childhood, which get more and more vivid the longer he’s out on his own. Outlast 2 features some of the slickest transitions between realities I’ve ever seen in a video game. This means that developer Red Barrels is able to have more elaborate set pieces from the word “go.” It feels like there are more jump scares this time around, but the series’ signature creepy ambiance remains, even though most of the game takes place outdoors. Supernatural elements are evident in this story from very early on, in stark contrast to the original. Outlast 2’s main theme is that of the occult. Considering the finality of that last option, you really only have two choices.
If an enemy spots you, with very rare exception your only choices are to run, hide, or die. Blake has made career and life choices which have not trained him in the art of survival. If you played the original, you’ll feel right at home in the sequel. All is not as it seems, of course, as Blake appears to slowly lose his grip on reality as the situation goes from bad to worse. Expect to travel among the trees, along riverbanks, and even in some snow and other more exotic locations the further into the game you get. Whereas the original Outlast generally took place in one large location, Outlast 2 has changed things up here as well. In a first-person game, there is always a risk of breaking immersion by having a character that is too talkative, so it is good to see a nice balance here. Most of the game revolves around you hiding and pacing your escape from various areas, and during these sections Blake stays quiet other than the obligatory breathing, panting, and grunting noises made as you traverse the many environments in which you find yourself. However, he is only really vocal during cutscenes. One major change in Outlast 2 is that Blake talks, quite a lot. It’s a completely different location, and completely different characters, and yet, the gruesome new area feels vaguely familiar.
Your helicopter crash-lands, and you are treated to an incredibly hostile welcome by the locals. Naturally, this story taking place in the Outlast universe means things quickly go south. In Outlast 2, You play as Blake Langermann, an investigate journalist and cameraman, who finds himself and wife Lynn en route to an extremely remote section of the Sonoran Desert in the Southwestern United States.
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