You will bear witness to some of the most horrific scenes of grotesque violence in my 30+ years of playing video games and watching R-rated films. The story takes a turn for the truly twisted in the final act with a bunch of bloodthirsty redneck hillbillies that had me flashing back to Texas Chainsaw Massacre. The game is decisively broken up into two parts, each with their own main protagonist/boss, and as always, you cannot fight back but are forced to run, hide, and sneak around in the dark as much as possible. Thankfully, these are generously scattered about the facility along with numerous documents and your own personal notes that you scribble down while viewing certain scenes through the camera. There are also more areas of total darkness that require constant use of your camera and numerous batteries. There seems to be more outdoor locations in Whistleblower some that take place in thick fog that make your night-vision camera mode blindingly useless. From this point on the game plays much like the core Outlast game with some notable changes in scenery and characters, but overall, your goal is the same – escape the asylum. Waylon’s treachery does not go unnoticed, and he is detained by security and tossed into the asylum with all the other psychos. Waylon then goes about some routine duties as we are witness to events that take place prior to Miles arrival but that he ultimately encounters in his own end-game moments. In this DLC you will be playing as Waylon, and in the very opening sequence he is typing up the very email that Miles was reading in the beginning of his game.
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You might remember in the opening sequence of Outlast you were playing Miles Upshur, an investigative reporter who was looking into the Mount Massive Asylum at the request of a software engineer, Waylon Park, who was working for the Murkoff Corporation an evil company who has been conducting sinister experiments mixing science and religion. If you haven’t played (and finished) the main game, then you may want to stop reading.
#OUTLAST WHISTLEBLOWER DLC NEW GAME HOW TO#
Whistleblower is not only one of the best DLC supplements I have ever played, it is also one of the best examples of how to integrate your DLC into the core game in a way that fleshes out what you have already played and already know, as well as providing you with an entirely new and equally horrific experience. Seriously I kinda think that someone at Red Barrels figured that now they had made their money with the base game they might as well just go and put in almost anything they could think of in the DLC just see how far they could push ESRB.I really wasn’t expecting any DLC for Outlast, but I’m sure glad they made some. Its very scary and a great way to kill a few hours.ĭisclaimer: Just like vanilla Outlast, Whistleblower is rated M by the ESRB (although I think it walks the line between M and AO) and contains some disturbing shit. Whistleblower was a very good experience and I strongly recommend it to anyone who liked Outlast. They did do one thing two thirds of the way through that did change up the game quite a bit and I don’t want to spoil anything so I’m just going to say it’s simple, annoying, brilliant, and terrifying. The gameplay is still great and it is still horrifying. The gameplay was on the most part a copy paste of the base game’s which I didn’t really mind because Outlast has great gameplay. The story does suffer a little bit for it, but at least it doesn’t lose a lot of momentum in the last few minutes like the base game did. The story was nicely done, though it does focus more on Waylan’s personal story and lacks all the big reveals that the base game had. Along the way he picks up a camcorder (the same model as Miles’ which apparently has some sort of super night vision mode that eats up batteries like it’s nobodies business) and uses the same mechanics in the base game to navigate the asylum and look for an exit. Once his corporate douchebag boss finds out that he ratted them out he proceeds to imprison Waylan, but happens and Wayland manages to escape from his cell as Mount Massive descends into chaos. Whistleblower follows the story of Waylan Park, the programmer who sent Miles Upshur the email that sent him to Mount Massive in the first place.
It would be easy to just say that it’s just more of the base game, but I believe it’s entitled to a little bit more discussion… … well that, and I don’t think just saying the previous sentence constitutes enough material to make an entirely new article. Having Recently reviewed the independent survival horror game Outlast I figured it would be worth it to spend a little bit of time talking about it’s DLC expansion: Whistleblower.
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