The fear is back in The Chinese Room's spiritual sequel to The Dark Descent. Prepare to be scared!
Frightening games require a key ingredient that is not initially present in their makeup: a willingness, on the player’s behalf, to be scared. Without this, horror games are seldom terrifying, and more often than not are only campy experiences as silly and ineffective as the latest Jason & Chucky crossover flick. I went into Amnesia: Machine for Pigs wanting to be thrilled; and I made sure to play it at night, with headphones on, while everyone else in the world slept – to achieve this goal. This certainly isn’t a Resident Evil experience, where you’ll be blowing away fiends with your acid rounds – but something different, more along the lines of some other modern horror games where you are essentially powerless against the forces of evil, rather than being a semi-immortal avenger.
The definition of survival horror.
Take this how you will, but I am scared of playing ZombiU. Every time I pick up the Wii U Gamepad to start playing, I get a feeling of dread, and worry. Before I start, I carefully consider my last outing in the game, and identify what it is I have to do in order to survive as long as possible. This is a feeling that no horror game has brought up in a long time. While my fear of ZombiU can be seen as a positive or a negative depending on the context of the question, there is no doubt that ZombiU is an achievement in the survival horror genre.
In the second entry to the "Island Survival Guide" series we are shown the plethora of human, and narcotic dangers in the Rook Islands.
In this "Island Survival Guide" series for Far Cry 3 we are presented with what the Rook Islands have to explore and engage with.
Guillaume Brunier (Senior Producer) educates us on survival in the world of ZombiU.
Available now as a DSiWare title on the Nintendo DSi for 200 points, and is also available on the Nintendo 3DS eShop for $1.99.