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The Evil Within 2 PC Requirements Now Revealed

With two weeks left until Bethesda’s The Evil Within 2 releases, the company has finally revealed the PC requirements. While the minimum requirements are tame (except that 8GB of RAM), the recommended requirements are a different story.  Yes, that does say it needs 16GB of RAM, which is considered to be a good amount. There’s no telling if the game is going to use all 16GB or not. But if it does,…

I’m just gonna come out and say it. Much like punk, Survival Horror is dead and has been since the mid-2000s. I say that with a heavy heart because that genre was one of my favourites. Masterpieces like Silent Hill and Resident Evil knew how to scare the shit out of you, by exposing the most basic of human fears, simply rendering the player powerless- also faceless monsters, they helped too. Bethesda’s The Evil Within looks to resurrect that long-forgotten fear by bringing aboard the grandfather of the genre himself, Shinji Mikami, and throwing you headfirst into his demented nightmare and asking you to survive.