Also known as: Silent Hill: Origins Platforms: PS2, PSP Release Date: 2008-03-04 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ The Silent Hill mechanics reproduced with such exacting care that the result feels soulless. This is a review of the PSP version of this game. I originally posted this on the blog because handheld games are […]
Platforms: PS2, Wii, PC Release Date: 2008-03-25 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ☆☆☆☆ The worst aspects of a teenage slasher flick in game form: boring, trite, and occasionally offensive. The original Obscure was a fun, if somewhat routine, horror game. Its saving grace was its two player mode, something that has still yet to be […]
Platforms: Xbox360, PS3 Release Date: 2008-09-30 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ A game that can’t make up its mind which of the previous Silent Hill games it would like to emulate more, and suffers as a result. Silent Hill Homecoming is the latest in a series of not-very-Silent-Hill-like Silent Hill games. I guess […]
Platforms: Xbox360, PS3 Release Date: 2008-03-11 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ A sequel that hits all the right notes but can’t quite follow the tune. Condemned 2 is sort of a hard game to write a review for. On the one hand, it’s clearly been designed to address the shortcomings of the original Condemned […]
Platforms: Xbox360, PS3, Wii Release Date: 2008-06-23 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★☆☆ Mixing procedural mechanics with traditional linear game play proves mediocre. Alone in the Dark 5 is an interesting game because it tries so hard to be so many different things at once. It’s got elements of all sorts of other games, […]
Also known as: Biohazard 5 Platforms: PS3, Xbox360 Release Date: 2009-03-13 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ Lack of scares can’t keep this action-oriented game from being loads of fun. Resident Evil 5 is a great game. The art is beautiful, the control is dead-on, the challenges are well designed and the difficulty curve […]
Also known as: Rei 3 Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2005-11-08 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ Girls visiting sinister Japanese buildings at night continues to be a successful formula for this series, though to be fair Fatal Frame III does have some new tricks up its sleeve. Fatal Frame III is subtitled “The Tormented.” […]
Platforms: Xbox360, PC Release Date: 2005-11-16 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★★ Condemned is in many ways a classic horror game dressed up as a first person next-gen launch title. A gem! Condemned was one of the first titles released for Microsoft’s Xbox360 platform. As a launch title, I expected that it would be pretty […]
Platforms: PS2, Xbox Release Date: 2005-09-26 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★☆☆ Though this sequel is very similar to its predecessor, some balancing and plot problems prevent it from being completely successful. Official site at Surreal Software. The Suffering: Ties That Bind is the sequel to the 2004 title The Suffering by Surreal Software. If […]
Platforms: PS2, Xbox, PC Release Date: 2005-03-15 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ☆☆☆☆ A pretty but ultimately shallow and frustrating attempt at action-oriented horror. I’m not sure what to say about Cold Fear exactly. It’s got all the components of a good horror game, excellent graphics, and some genuinely creepy environments, and yet I can’t […]