![]() ![]() You’ll need to manage your battery supply, as well as when to “reload” as swapping batters does take a few seconds. In fact, as the battery gets near the end of its life, the camera will flicker, giving some pretty unsettling effects, especially when you’re already feeling tense. You can find more batteries hidden all around Mount Massive. Like Amnesia’s lamp and oil, you’ll need to swap out the camcorder’s batteries when the power gets low. Night vision allows you to see in the dark areas of the asylum, but slowly drains battery life, requiring you to only use it when you need it. The other is the ability to turn on night vision mode. In fact most of the story is told through these notes and documents that you can find hidden around the asylum. If you are recording a major event of some sort, Miles will write a note about it, giving you more background on Miles’s character or the world in general. It adds two interesting gameplay elements. Miles is a journalist, so he brings his camcorder with him, and it’s his greatest (and only) tool in Mount Massive. It’s played in the first person and has an interesting mechanic: the camcorder. The gameplay is kind of Amnesia-style there is no fighting, only running and hiding if when you’re spotted. In fact, there are some really great and unforgettable scenes throughout Outlast. Soon Miles is caught in a fight for his life as he struggles to escape Mount Massive, though the inmates want him to stay either to kill him, or to witness all they have been put through. When he does, he finds dead bodies of patients, security, and SWAT members. Miles finds that there is nobody around outside but empty SWAT vehicles, so he must sneak inside using a broken window and nearby scaffolding. ![]() As you drive in, your radio shuts off, likely jammed communication. Outlast puts you in the shoes of Miles Upshur (get it?), a freelance investigative journalist that receives an anonymous tip from someone known only as the Whistleblower (in fact, that’s who you play as in the DLC) who has inside information on what is going on at Mount Massive Asylum, and that those who run it, the Murkoff corporation is doing terrible things to the inmates. At any rate, I finally played the PS4 version and the Whistleblower DLC this weekend, so while it’s fresh in my head, I had better review it. In fact, when I first heard that Outlast was coming to PS4, it was one of my main reasons to get a PS4. 2h PlayedI bought the original "Outlast" as a bundle with this DLC, since at the time it was the cheapest option.I first played and beat Outlast a couple of years ago on PC. Honestly, I probably should have just waited, since the original went on sale solo recently for two-bucks: an even better deal, if you take into account that Outlast was, for myself, a disappointing experience. Boring, repetitive gameplay loop with a nonsensical plot and zero effective scares. Sadly, though, I did feel I had to play the DLC too, since I paid for it. But not sadly, because this DLC is, incredulously, better than the main game. The mechanics are the same - nothing's changed: you're still going to be running away & hiding from rubber-banding enemies while you flip switches & film everything with a grainy night-vision camcorder with the shoddiest battery life ever. But the plot is miles-ahead of the original. Taking place before, during, and after the events of the first game, you play a different character from a different perspective of the asylum (trying to keep things spoiler-free), and by going this route it actually helps to explain much of what happened off-screen in the original without the need for mindless exposition in the form of collectables. It had a gripping playable prologue in the "Half-Life" vein, and an excellent outdoor area with some non-linear exploration & first-person platforming thrown in for variety (I actually like first-person platforming, so there). Special mention also needs to go to the DLC's best new villain: a sad, lonely guy who just really, REALLY wants to be loved. The entire climactic sequence with him was grislier & more atmospherically-effective than anything the original threw at you. Even though "Whistleblower" went that little bit extra, I still hesitantly recommend it. ![]()
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