Developer: Flying Wild Hog
Publisher: Focus Entertainment
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows (Reviewed), Xbox One, Xbox Series X
Release Date: 21 November 2022
Price: – $69.95 AUD / $49.99 USD Available Here

Overview

It’s been a while since I saw the first trailer for Evil West back when it was announced. It looked very promising, perhaps a bit too much. Fast forward to the present time, the game is finally in our hands. It’s the fast paced action game combining shooting and brawling that I wanted it to be with some caveats. With that out of the way, let’s take a deeper look at how everything falls in place.

Story

In the old, wild, weird west, vampires are a real thing. To combat them, a secret organization was created. Named after its founder, the Rentier Institute was able to harness the power of steam and electricity to create weapons that instill fear among the vampire ranks. A group of rogue vampires fear that humanity has gone too far, and they then decide that it’s time to conquer humanity once and for all. As one of the last capable field agents from the institute, Jesse Rentier must confront the vampire menace.

This is a great premise for an action game; a properly characterized “cowboy” secret agent facing hordes of powerful undead creatures using a variety of steampunk contraptions in the wild west. Unfortunately, the story leaves a lot to be…