Horror Week 3: Are we on earth or in Purgatory?

Evil Within has finally just come out on the shelves today as another horror game added to the mix this October. The excitement for the game has become an equal miss or hit for fellow gamers. With good and bad features it is hard to tell if it will hit the sales within its first day or not.

As a third person action/horror packed adventure it should intrigue the viewer’s more with such an unusual twist or maybe not. Developer, Shinji Mikami, creator of some of the more new Resident Evil Series has taken it upon himself to make a new horror game. He stated that, the game is meant to be a ‘perfect blend of action and horror.’

Sebastian. Monster.

The story features an investigation of a gruesome crime scene of mass murder. Detective Sebastian Castelloanos (Your Character) and his partner encounter strange mysterious (Supernatural) and powerful forces. The beginning of the game, Sebastian faces a slaughter of fellow officers, minutes later ambushed and knocked unconscious. When Sebastian recovers the world he once knew is deranged and inhabited by hideous creatures that wander among the dead. Is this just Sebastian’s imagination or is this a new world?

I do not want to go into depth with the storyline as if I further continued I may leak out too much and spoil the game for you. I would recommend playing it for yourself and making your own opinion about the game.

In recent news it has been stated a lot of negative perspectives within the game. Examples being:
-The main fact that the game did not seem that all new.
The software did not cut the new generation of console standards even though it was for both old and new. Gamers continued even before the release about its similarities too much closer to Resident Evil that they expected some of the horror aspects.  Even the controls and mechanics behind the game were much too familiar to Gamers standards.

-Not ‘Scary Enough’
Even I do not like this term very much as it depends upon the person and the game, continuous complaints were made about it when the gameplay was released. That could mean that there was not enough jump scares but depending upon the person and their perspective of horror gaming. Even the aspect of too much blood and gore just over field the screen and did not give it a scary feel anymore.

As I stated before, it depends upon the person and their perspective of horror, these are the three I believe you need for a horror game.
1. Darkness (Headphones, Night time and be alone is what you need for a full on experience)

Deadspace

2. Jump scares (I Believe ever game needs to give you a heart attack from time to time but it should not overdo it)

Outlast.

 

3. Blood…Blood… and more Blood… (I love my gore and killing ones so you need it)

Silent Hill.

Come On Horror Month!

Hey Gamers! Guess what month has finally arrived!? It’s October which means ‘Horror Month.’ Every week I will be talking about horror, gore and jumpy games that make you scared for your life. Here are some of the top horror games at the moment:

-Five Nights at Freddy’s
I was reading an interesting ‘back’ story to the game which intrigued me. The fact of how creepy and realistic it’s seemed to play out and trick me is so fascinating. The story unfolds where five children were kidnapped and murdered by a man wearing a Freddy Fazbear costume.

A further case has been stated that Freddy Fazbear’s pizza place is haunted as the children were stuffed into the animatronics which is pointed out by the smell along with mucus and blood around the eyes and mouths of the animatronics. Its reputation was decreasing due to the serious cases placed on top of it.  And what are you in the game? A security guard watching each of the cameras where the animatronics move around at night.

Sadly you have no guns but instead control the doors in your room to stop them from entering and killing you. You also have the capability to watch the animatronics through the surveillance cameras BUT Watch your amount of power.

Bonnie, Foxy, Chica, Freddy

The four mascot’s names are Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie the rabbit, Chica the bird and Foxy the fox. What also gives it the atmosphere of a spine shaking scary game is the creepy phone calls of the man explaining your job, even though with a nicely spoken voice the words he says are not really good.

Another interesting case was the ‘bite of ‘87.’ The Bite of 87 was an incident that briefly mentioned by the phone guy during the first night. The story in tales an animatronic violently bit someone, a child for that matter too. Leading the animatronics to not walk around during the day time. A lot of people believe the animatronic that did this act was Foxy instead of Freddy due to the broken jaw, damaged parts and the ‘out of order’ sign.

-Never-ending Nightmare
Now for a game that really gives me the creeps and will make you see another side of gore that you really would of never expected. In 2013  the game was placed on Kickstarter and was successfully funded.

You play as the character Thomas who has just woken up from another one of his nightmares yet only to find he is still dreaming another. As you navigate your way through the game in his house you begin to witness worse nightmare experiences to occur such as blood on the walls, broken bones and horrifying deadly creatures.

An interesting thing that happens in the game is that each time Thomas dies in a nightmare, he comes back with serious case of depression or commits self-harm but always comes back to the same or a different nightmare.

Yet the game is horror felt it is very detailed in the art work produced as a 2D hand-drawn line art style. But not only this factor but along with the simplistic storyline that still makes you question and think about what is really happening.

Though there will be a lot of horror games to spill out this month we can still look back at some of the classics.

1. OutLast
   

   

   Outlast

2. Slenderman
   

   

   Slenderman

3. Amnesia
   

   

   Amnesia

   
   

The Forest, is it really scary or not at all…?

So recently a lot of people have been wondering and trying out the new Alpha of the game The Forest. I have watched various amounts of famous Youtuber’s play the game and have played it myself however I have even asked a few friends what their opinion of the game is but first I will talk about the game.

 

‘The Forest’ was released during May of this year as an Alpha where you play in an open world survival horror game that is only on PC’s. You start off on a plane, not knowing where you’re going or why your there in the first place however you have a son that has fallen asleep beside you. It seems peaceful at first while the storm becomes worse than all of a sudden the plane crashes and you awake not with your son beside you or knowing where you are.

So you enter the darkness of the forest with barely any supplies, drastic weather conditions, and you must search for food by that of either an animal or a plant but that can alter whether you live or die. Explore your surroundings on this deserted island filled with caves and a lake but beware of the vicious inhabitants that are the cannibals.

The game develops different components such as building various objects to help you survive the night by building a house, a fire or even a simple chair. However the game seems to tend to cross to the activities it which you would face in the common most popular game Minecraft where simple objects such as chopping down trees, gathering food supplies, craft weapons and tools etc though you must understand that every survival game would face the same conclusion as others. You must also understand that your food bar can go down quite quickly. Build either small or large shelters to survive the cold night even maybe a fortress. There is so much for you to do, build and explore.

 

One Problem: It is an Alpha.
Alpha games tend to be either good or bad as it depends upon the person themselves as Alphas do take a lot of problems and bugs that people who interact with the game must advise them the problem to slowly fix it. Example, not being able to build some of the buildings.

Another problem: No real story
Survival games are always about building and exploring however you see that the Forest had begun to develop a story but not finish it or continue it in turn confusing people. A lot of people love to get into a story which pushes them to either buy or play the game for longer. Example, what happens to the son?

These are the two main problems that I have been told by a lot of my friends but I believe that as the game evolves it will become better, the graphics are brilliant and it’s an interesting way to go into a new survival horror game. What are your opinions of Alphas or the game itself?