Deadly Premonition was a survival horror game released in 2010 that some people called a masterpiece and others called an embarrassment to gaming. In my life as a gamer, I have never seen anything polarise critics so extremely. If you want to see whether I loved it or hated it, read my review of the original game, although the fact that I’m now reviewing the Director’s Cut should be a clue. Read more …
For this edition of my Horror Show feature in which I attempt to dissect the gruesome contents of countless horror games for the delight and delectation of any of the sickos who pass by, I rolled the clock back to 2004 and got knee-deep in The Suffering. Read more …
Playing this game, my expectations were moulded by bias. I had been informed reliably that this was the “worst Silent hill game ever” largely because of the developer shift. Many believed that American developers wouldn’t be able to replicate the subtle, transient nature of Japanese horror. Well, they were right, but does that mean that Homecoming is a bad game? Read more …
The year was 1999. The survival horror genre would never be the same again. The scary but silly antics of the Resident Evil series were well at the forefront of the horror genre when Konami threw their shadowy, profoundly confusing hat into the ring with the game-changing Silent Hill. However, in 1999 I was five years old and still happily ploughing through Crash Bandicoot 2. It was years later that I first came into contact with the terrifying series for me, and it led to a hideous, malformed romance to last a lifetime. With this article, I’d like to take things back to the source, with a look at the game that started it all. Read more …
It may be a surprise to some that I’ve written an article on Spec Ops: The Line for a feature predominantly about horror. Well, my justification for this little bit of self-indulgence, (as Spec Ops: The Line is possibly the greatest game ever made and I love boring people about it), is that in my humble opinion, Spec Ops: The Line should be classified as a horror game. True, it won’t make you jump; true, the ‘baddies’ you fight are normal, squishy humans and not shuddering mutants, but Spec Ops: The Line terrified me far more than many games that announce themselves as horror games recently.
As I slice up my hundredth slobbering alien beast with ease whilst playing Dead Space, I wonder to myself: has the survival horror genre forgotten that it has the word ‘survival’ in it?