GET EVEN

About GET EVEN

GET EVEN was developed by The Farm 51 and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It came out on Steam on 20 June 2017 and on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on 23 June 2017. Its music is by Olivier Deriviere.

Black, an ice-cold mercenary, wakes in a mysterious old asylum with no memory of his past. Under the guidance of his anonymous captor, Red, who speaks to him through television screens, he begins a treatment built on a headset called Pandora that lets him relive his memories as if they were happening now. Black goes into the depths of his own mind to find the truth behind the only thing he remembers: trying to rescue a teenage girl with a bomb strapped to her chest.

The game moves between the asylum and the memories. In the asylum you meet inmates, solve small puzzles such as restoring power to electrified doors, and choose whether to free them or leave them. The memories are the levels: you investigate with a smartphone that scans evidence, shows a map, sees heat signatures and lights up fingerprints and blood under UV, and you collect notes, photos and recordings for an evidence room. There are guns, including a CornerGun that fires around corners, but killing is discouraged because it makes the memory unstable, and Red keeps count of how you behave. Your choices and how much you kill decide which of two endings you reach.

The horror lives in the asylum and the sound: decaying rooms, wheelchairs stacked high, messages scrawled in red, and music that keeps up a sense of creeping unease. Critics praised the story and its twists; some found the shooting clumsy and the look dated, and Push Square, reviewing the PS4 version, called the combat its weakest part.

It is a thriller as much as a horror game, and suits players who like slow, unsettling mysteries of memory and guilt and do not mind some gunplay. The store warns of strong language, drug references and a brief attempted suicide in a cinematic sequence.

How to play GET EVEN

1. Buy it on Steam for Windows, or on the PlayStation Store or Xbox store.
2. Explore the asylum as Black, following the voice of your captor Red.
3. Enter each memory and use your phone to scan evidence, read the map, follow heat traces and reveal clues under UV light.
4. Sneak past the armed men in the memories where you can; fight only when you must.
5. Piece together what happened to the girl, choosing how to deal with the inmates and the people in your memories.

Tips

• Scan everything with the phone; collecting all of a level's evidence unlocks a code for locked doors in that level.
• Killing makes the memories unstable and Red remembers it: sneaking and sparing people shapes the ending.
• Use the CornerGun from cover to see and shoot around corners without showing yourself.
• Play with headphones: the sound design and music carry much of the tension.

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