When comparing Friday the 13th: The Game vs Outlast 2, the Slant community recommends Outlast 2 for most people. In the question“What are the best horror games for PC?” Outlast 2 is ranked 22nd while Friday the 13th: The Game is ranked 28th. The most important reason people chose Outlast 2 is:
Using every horror genre trick up its sleeve, Outlast is a very scary game that will make the player jump plenty of times. The monsters in Outlast 2 look very creepy with a lot of disgusting details added. Even just the environment and sounds will keep your adrenaline levels up. For those that are looking for a creepy game full of jump scares, this should be right up their alley.
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Pros
Pro Communication between players is encouraged and enhances the gameplay
Communication between the teenagers (players who are playing as Jason's victims) is key to surviving and outsmarting Jason. For example, if a player has found the fuel for the car and two other players have found the keys and car engine, they can all communicate and decide to meet at the car in order to escape.
Pro Perfectly captures the feel of what it must be like to be Jason
Friday the 13th perfectly captures the feeling of playing as an extremely menacing character. You methodically hunt other players and gain more and more supernatural powers as time goes by. Some of these powers include Sense (similar to Eagle Vision in Assassin's Creed) or Morph, which lets you teleport immediately across the map.
Pro Six different Jasons are playable, each one of them with advantages and disadvantages
There are six types of Jasons to choose from, each one of them based on a type of Jason that appeared in one of the movies. There's even the original Jason from the second movie with a paper bag on his head.
The differences are not only cosmetic, each Jason has his own advantages and disadvantages. Part 3 Jason for example can run but has very weak stun resistance. This also changes the way all players approach the game, whether you are playing as Jason or the teenagers, you have to adapt your strategy to the type of Jason you are playing as or playing against.
Pro Scary gameplay
Using every horror genre trick up its sleeve, Outlast is a very scary game that will make the player jump plenty of times. The monsters in Outlast 2 look very creepy with a lot of disgusting details added. Even just the environment and sounds will keep your adrenaline levels up. For those that are looking for a creepy game full of jump scares, this should be right up their alley.
Pro Environment feels open
Outlast 2 is more open and has much more functionality in-game than its ancestor and many other horror games. Tall grass, rivers, labyrinths etc make it easier and more exciting to hide from enemies. Though these structures make monsters harder to notice aswell.
Pro Great graphics
The game looks great. It's easy to forget that you're playing a video game, since some environments and characters look very lifelike.
Pro The game is very popular amongst video game streamers
Outlast 2 is played a lot on Twitch.tv and countless gameplay videos are uploaded on YouTube aswell. This gives you an oppurtunity to go through the game with some of your favourite game-streamers.
Cons
Con Playing as one of the victims may get boring quickly
Playing as one of the teenagers who are being hunted by Jason is not as fun as playing Jason himself. There are roughly four ways you can win the match: escape, survive the night, call the cops or kill Jason.
The last one is the hardest to achieve since it requires a great degree of communication between players. The one you will probably choose more often is escaping which consists of finding different objects that help you make your escape (things like keys, fuel, ropes, etc.). The things you need are randomly scattered each match across the map and you have to look in every drawer, cupboard, or box to find what you need. Unfortunately that's what you will be doing 90% of the time when playing as one of the victims.
Con Quite glitchy
The game is plagued by glitches. Especially collision detection has a lot of problems. It's not uncommon to see players walk through walls or hover in the air.
Con You can't choose whether you can play as Jason or one of the victims
At the start of the game, each player's role is chosen at random. This means that you can't get to choose whether to play as Jason or a victim and there's roughly a 12.5% chance to play as Jason before a game starts.
Con Character movement is not authentic
Though the game feels very real, the main character's movement sometimes ruins it. Though he can jump over ledges and climb over small walls, he sometimes can not move over tiny objects - this can frustrate the player and make the game feel less real.
Con Scripted chases - a lot of trial and error escaping
Quite often you find yourself escaping from an enemy in a scripted chase. You will have to get to a specific predetermined location to escape the enemy. This means a lot of trial and error - choosing different paths and dying, until you find the right one.
Con Story leaves a lot of open ends
The game asks way more questions than it answers. After the game you might feel like you wanted more questions to be answered.
Con The gore can be a bit too much
Though the game is M-Rated, instead of "Adults only", it contains a lot of gore and some nudity. Some players might feel like standing up and leaving the game at points just because the gore becomes unbearable.