On the one hand the familiarity is a good thing as you can jump right into the game without any need to acclimate yourself to the controls. You even collect files to flesh out the story and scribble notes on a notepad when you witness certain events. There’s lots of searching creepy halls, running from psychos, hiding in and under things, climbing into vents it’s all here and hasn’t changed a bit. There really is not one thing you’ll be doing in this game that you didn’t do in the original. The mechanics are nigh religiously faithful to the original game for good or ill. On the gameplay side Red Barrels took the classic “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” approach. As it is however, Whistleblower is a tight, decently told prequel story that makes the events of the original game a little more coherent, if not entirely so. Whether it is completely successful in this attempt is a bit spotty as a few things become clearer while other things stay in the dark, both literally and figuratively. The story in Outlast, while largely explained, was a tad convoluted and some further exposition could have tightened things up, which is what Whistleblower attempts to do. It’s a clever avenue that the game takes as it keeps the original Outlast completely in mind and relevant, making you feel as if you’re playing a part in the events that you already know will eventually take place.
The story is a prequel, but only really takes place a few hours before the events of the original title. In Whistleblower you play as that employee, Waylon Park. Players of the original will remember that journalist Miles Upshur was drawn to the nefarious doings in Mount Massive asylum thanks to an email from an employee tipping him off. Developer Red Barrels knew they had something good and now only a few months later we have our first taste of DLC in the form of Whistleblower. It was every bit as scary as advertised and the mechanics built around the scares were also solid throughout. Luckily, I enjoyed my time with the game. I was a little hesitant myself to try the original release since hype rarely lives up to the… well…. One could barely peek into the internet without seeing scads of videos of unfortunate players screaming, crying, and even leaving rooms as a result of playing the game. Outlast quickly became an internet sensation before it was ever released to the public.
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