The Evil Within – 1st Expansion Arrives Early 2015 With The Assignment

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Posted December 12, 2014 by Richard Lee Breslin in Announcements, DLC, Gaming News, PC, PS3, PS4, Season Pass, Xbox 360, Xbox One

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Bethesda has announced that the first of three expansion packs for The Evil Within will be arriving early 2015 with The Assignment.  On the Bethesda Blog, the news was announced with minor details, along with a very brief teaser trailer.  As much as I love The Evil Within (as reflected in our review), the ending did leave me scratching my head somewhat and this is where the first expansion pack comes into play.

The Assignment will be in two DLC segments, which will focus on Detective Castellanos’ partner Juli Kidman.  Bethesda promised that they will reveal details on the second part of Juli Kidman’s story in 2015 entitled The Consequence, before the third and final expansion featuring The Keeper aka Boxhead.

While major plot details were not revealed for The Assignment, on the Bethesda Blog they did say that we may have “questions (that) surround Juli Kidman? How do you balance answering some of those questions with keeping parts of the game’s story open-ended/mysterious?”  

However Bethesda did share the following information and the teaser clip below, you can find out more details on the forthcoming DLC via a Q&A with Tango Gameworks John Johanas over on the Bethesda Blog.

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That was a tough one! We approached the DLC from the perspective that, while Juli is enigmatic during the main game, there were additionally lots of other mysteries about the world and the characters that could be cleared up or hinted at by playing as her. She is a character who seems rather “aware” of her situation, after all.

Early on, we listed the things that we wanted to answer and ones we wanted to keep open and worked around that. We definitely leave some of the mysteries open, but I feel we shed a lot of light on the lore of Ruvik, STEM, and the characters while asking (and answering) a whole new set of questions regarding Juli and her mission.