The weapon wheel from the first game gets a slight cosmetic update, but it no real improvement for working with your guns. The Resident Evil-esque inventory management system is present here and while it is functional, picking up green herbs and combining items to make ammo is just as off-putting as it’s been in the last 15 Resident Evil games. While there is an argument that the unforgiving controls add to the tension, I’m not as willing to give a game a pass for this as I was in 1997. Doing anything with an enemy near you is an exercise in pure frustration. The game will auto vault over low obstacles and kick open doors if you are sprinting, which is a welcome addition. Overall player movement and handling is an improvement over the first game, but is still incredibly frustrating to deal with in tense moments, which is almost all the time. You are tasked with third personing yourself from objective to objective while not being murdered by the nightmare denizens of Union or the collection of side characters who exist to double-cross you or die to keep you on track.

Due to Lily’s absence, everything in the STEM world is a thrown into disarray and ripe from manipulation from evil forces.īetter Than Tank Controls, But Not OptimalĪs Castellanos, you are dumped into STEM and find yourself in what was once a suburban town called Union. Castellanos needs to be mindjacked into STEM and is given orders to find Lily and their spec ops team that was sent in to fix this quagmire earlier. It appears that Lily is special and is needed to control STEM, a machine that lets minds drift together under the guide of a central consciousness, known as the Core. He is propositioned by his former partner to come help a shadow organization find his daughter, who is presumably alive and was in the care of the organization.ĭesperate to see Lily again, he agrees to cooperate, even though this is obviously a bad life choice and will undoubtedly result in pain, suffering, and mental anguish. The game implies that he is reliving this nightmare in his sleep. Castellanos is haunted by the disappearance of his wife and the passing of his young daughter, Lily, during a blaze that engulfed their home. The Evil Within 2 kicks off a couple of years after the events of the original game and opens in a dream sequence in the mind of the main protagonist, Sebastian Castellanos.

The evil within 2 gameplay