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 […]
Also known as: Demento Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2005-05-10 Regions: USA Japan Chris’s Rating: ★★☆☆ Clock Tower 3 run-and-hide mechanics applied to a much more cohesive game, though the routine still gets old after a while. Haunting Ground is an old-school survival horror game dressed in new-school technology. It’s got all the adventure-meets-horror goodness that […]
Also known as: Mortifilia Platforms: PS2, Xbox, PC Release Date: 2004-10-01 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ A rather by-the-numbers horror game that benefits greatly from its unique two-player mode. Obscure is a pretty apt title for this game, because it certainly passed under the radar of much of the gaming public. Developed by a […]
Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2005-08-05 Regions: Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Suda51 makes crazy games, and sometimes they are brilliant. Other times, as with Michigan, they are terrible. I’ve been trying to come up with something positive to say about Michigan to open this review with. I could say that it’s not buggy, but actually […]