The Evil Within: The Assignment Critic Reviews

The Assignment is an excellent piece of DLC that adds, in a purely positive way, to the base game.

Its stealthy gameplay, beautifully designed environments, and refreshingly grounded protagonist make it stand out from the main game, and a cliffhanger ending suggests there’s much more good stuff to come in part two: The Consequence.

The Assignment is one of those weird DLCs, because it's worth playing. The change in the gameplay mechanics is seamless and interesting. We are eager to see how the plot unfolds in The Consequence.

The Assignment is a great return to The Evil Within. This DLC introduces new and pretty clever mechanics that makes a much more scary experience than the main game. If you love survival horror games, you must play this first chapter of Juli Kidman’s story.

The Assignment is a good DLC, with more survival-oriented gameplay and tailored to the fans of the original The Evil Within. It may come a little short, considering that it will take less than three hours to complete it.

It focuses more on puzzles and atmosphere, which creates a more convincing survival horror experience. If only it lasted a little longer.

At around two hours long, The Assignment is a reasonably-sized add-on which fleshes out The Evil Within's story while building on what made it so enjoyable in the first place. Let's hope its follow-up, The Consequence, lives up to it.

Shedding some major light on The Evil Within's lacking story by putting players in Kidman's shoes, The Assignment is the perfect complementary DLC, full of more scares and intense moments.

A DLC that complements the main history on the game while letting us control a different character, centering it's experience on puzzles and stealth. Fun, but very short.

The Assignment is a brilliant start to The Evil Within's post-launch content support that fans can't afford to miss out on.

While it only lasted a handful of hours, The Assignment ended up being a refreshing counterpart to The Evil Within, rather than being labeled as ‘just more of the same’.

Horrifying environments and enemies keep you on your toes, but a few choice mechanics can be frustrating and detract from immersion.

Those who loved the mechanics of the original title may not appreciate the big changes in this DLC. Conversely, those who are looking for a stealth and extremely more tense experience than the adventure of Castellanos, will find this new adventure amazing.

There's nothing horribly wrong with The Assignment, but the instant death rules that I disliked about The Evil Within continue to plague the DLC, making Kidman's story one of frustration and retries.

What you are instead left with is something that departs a bit too much from what fans probably wanted. Instead of fixing the few issues The Evil Within had, they introduced something completely new with a whole new bag of troubles. Fortunately enough, the story is interesting enough and holds up pretty well, and for some that may just be worth the price of entry.