The way that Outlast 2 frames crimes against humanity seals the conclusion that the developers are superficially anti-Christian and anti-religion. These blasts from the past revel in condescension toward would-be believers, from a priest’s patronizing line, “I remember being a young man,” to a frantic chase where you crawl on top of books with titles like Faith and Life of Christ, all words that register as pointless gestures in the midst of so much terror. While these segments exude a Kubrickian intensity (bright and colorful halls, as well as a flood of blood, recall The Shining), they only function to highlight the trauma of the journalist, as opposed to illuminating any personal belief that outlines why people, for instance, shouldn’t crucify others in the name of Christ. In the middle of escaping scores of rural murderers, the protagonist has vivid flashbacks of a sort to his days at a Catholic school. One can’t run very far in Outlast 2 without stumbling across a crucifixion, and the game’s nonstop parading of cross imagery makes it seem that undeserved torture is the defining legacy of Christianity.
Some documents also painfully lean on stereotypical rural language, such as the line “You ben more then cousin to me since we was littl childrun.” The player also finds ample evidence of violence directed at adults by Knoth’s followers. One letter, for example, indicates that a woman would like God himself to have sex with her, so as to extinguish the “antichrist” inside her. But whereas the original takes place in an asylum, thus making insanity, rather than misguided faith, the explanation behind the delusional character of Father Martin, writer JT Petty’s script sets Outlast 2 in rural Arizona for the more cynical reason of easily associating religious fanaticism with “backward” country folk, who, in this case, buy into the malevolent ramblings of a bogus prophet named Knoth.īy reading scattered documents, including excerpts from the Gospel of Knoth, the player learns that Knoth and his followers believe that killing one’s own children is holy. In both games, you frequently find yourself in pitch-black areas, so you must often use the night vision on a camcorder and be on the constant lookout for batteries in order to see anything. Like its predecessor, Outlast 2 puts the player in control of a journalist who finds himself with no choice but to, in the words of the intro, “run, hide, or die” from the maniacs who are trying to kill him. As such, it’s hard to see developer Red Barrels’s game as anything more than an immature and hateful slight at anyone who dares to believe in a divine creator or a deity who may have died for their sins. But unlike Charles Laughton’s masterpiece The Night of the Hunter, which uses Robert Mitchum’s Harry Powell and Lillian Gish’s Rachel Cooper as respective visions of Christian faith at its most evil and most good, Outlast 2 makes all of its God-fearing characters into corrupt figures, from a self-proclaimed prophet who advocates infanticide to a priest who forces a female student to stay after school for lecherous reasons. The investigation has lead you miles into the Arizona desert, to a darkness so deep that no one could shed light upon it, and a corruption so profound that going mad may be the only sane thing to do.With countless depictions of people imprisoned, brutalized, and killed in the name of a deranged Christian belief system, Outlast 2 lives up to the upside-down burning cross in its stylized title. You're following a trail of clues that started with the seemingly impossible murder of a pregnant woman known only as Jane Doe. The two of you are investigative journalists willing to take risks and dig deep to uncover the stories no one else will dare touch. You are Blake Langermann, a cameraman working with your wife, Lynn. Knoth and his flock are preparing for the tribulations of the end of times and you’re right in the thick of it.
Outlast 2 introduces you to Sullivan Knoth and his followers, who left our wicked world behind to give birth to Temple Gate, a town, deep in the wilderness and hidden from civilization. Set in the same universe as the first game, but with different characters and a different setting, Outlast 2 is a twisted new journey into the depths of the human mind and its dark secrets. Outlast 2 is the sequel to the acclaimed survival horror game Outlast.
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