Platforms: SNES, PSX Release Date: 1995-09-14 Regions: Japan Chris’s Rating: ★★★★ A fantastic example of the way that quality horror games require neither advanced technology nor action-oriented game play. Japan only. English ROM patch available at: http://agtp.romhack.net/clocktow.html This is the original Clock Tower game by Human Entertainment. You control young Jennifer, an orphan who finds […]
Also known as: BioHazard 0 Platforms: GameCube, Wii Release Date: 2003-03-07 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ Seemingly minor tweaks to the rapidly-aging Resident Evil formula end up changing the traversal strategy considerably. Describing how Resident Evil 0 works is a little difficult. It has a whole bunch of crazy new features that set […]
Also known as: Forbidden Siren Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2003-11-06 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★★ Extremely innovative–and extremely difficult–entry into the horror game hall of fame. A masterpiece for those who can muscle their way through it. Siren is a really interesting game. It is quite clearly survival horror, and yet it is […]
Platforms: PS2, Xbox, PC Release Date: 2004-03-08 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ Action-centric horror done right; The Suffering is an excellent American response to the Japanese genre heavyweights. The Suffering is very much an American response to the Japanese horror formula. The game has clearly been influenced by the likes of Devil May Cry […]
Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2003-12-05 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ A light-hearted shooter dressed up as horror that’s more fun than it should be. I expected Ghosthunter to be a pretty terrible game. The design of the main character was boring (goatees usually equate to angst and generic rage), the title seemed uninspired, and […]
Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2003-03-19 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ A solid, if simple, exercise in hide-and-seek scares and fantasy horror. Clock Tower 3 represents a departure from the Clock Tower formula. The previous three games (two on Playstation 1 and the one on SNES) all relied on point-and-click control schemes and complex […]
Also known as: Rei Zero, Project Zero Platforms: PS2, Xbox Release Date: 2002-03-06 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★☆☆ Innovative combat mechanics and fantastic art direction makes for one of the best games in the horror genre. While there have been innumerable Resident Evil knock-offs, Silent Hill showed us that correctly executed atmospherics can […]
Platforms: Dreamcast Release Date: 2001-04-25 Regions: USA Japan Chris’s Rating: ☆☆☆☆ Campy and weird, Illbleed is an example of resource-management game play gone all wrong. Illbleed is hands-down the weirdest game I’ve played for this Quest. Everything about it is strange: the concept, the story, the presentation, the levels, even the control scheme is non-standard. […]
Also known as: D no Shokutaku 2 Platforms: Dreamcast Release Date: 2000-08-22 Regions: USA Japan Chris’s Rating: ★★☆☆ An interesting but overly ambitious attempt at revolutionary horror-adventure game play. You got two meats. A complicated and interesting game, D2 is sort of the survival horror version of Shenmue. With huge levels, excellent graphics, and a […]
Platforms: Dreamcast Release Date: 2000-03-01 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ☆☆☆☆ A model of mediocrity, Carrier is uninspired and formulaic. Carrier is the quintessential Resident Evil rip-off: it manages to copy the basic RE mechanics, add a few superfluous features to the mix, and venture off into amazingly mediocre territory. To understand Carrier, imagine […]