Category Archives: 2004 Releases

Obscure

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 […]

Silent Hill 4

Also known as: Silent Hill 4: The Room Platforms: PS2, Xbox, PC Release Date: 2004-09-07 Regions: USA Japan Europe Chris’s Rating: ★★☆☆ It looks like a Silent Hill game, and it sounds like a Silent Hill game, and it plays like a Silent Hill game, but somehow Silent Hill 4 feels less like a sequel […]

Kuon

Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2004-03-31 Regions: USA Japan Chris’s Rating: ★☆☆☆ Historical Japanese trappings can’t save this short-and-painful knockoff. Official Japanese site: http://www.ku-o-n.net/top/ Official English site: http://kuon.agetec.com/ There’s one thing I can say for certain about Kuon: it has style. The graphics are nice, the game has chosen a non-traditional setting (Heian-era Japan), and the […]

Echo Night: Beyond

Also known as: Nebula – Echo Night Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2004-01-22 Regions: USA Japan Chris’s Rating: ★★★☆ A space-horror adventure game that succeeds in creating an extremely convincing–not to mention creepy–environment, Echo Night: Beyond’s only major flaw is that it is really slow. Echo Night: Beyond is the third Echo Night game in the […]

The X-Files: Resist or Serve

Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2004-03-16 Regions: USA Europe Chris’s Rating: ☆☆☆☆ A textbook example of what you get when you treat game design as a list of features taken from other popular games (hint: it’s not good). X-Files: Resist or Serve is sort of a mess. I can see the feature list on some producer’s […]

Resident Evil Outbreak

Also known as: Biohazard Outbreak Platforms: PS2 Release Date: 2004-04-01 Regions: USA Japan Online version of Resident Evil. Announced by Capcom in early 2002.

The Suffering

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 […]