Tag Archives: Survival Horror

In keeping with a series-long tradition of multiple endings, Fatal Frame: Maiden of Black Water introduces a total of eight different conclusions – two each for protagonists Yuri and Mui, and four for Ren. None of these endings are particularly hard to get, coming about based on decisions you make …

True choice is an illusion in most games. It’s a fact I became all too aware of after recently finishing Until Dawn (opens in new tab) – an adventure predicated on player agency and decision-making. Right now, games just aren’t set up to offer truly human options and deliver realistic …

During my last playthrough of Alien Isolation, I was on fire for two full missions. I don’t mean I got through them quickly or managed to stay a step ahead of the Alien the whole time. I mean I was literally on fire, and so was all my stuff. My …

Until Dawn is, by most measures, very bad. The voice acting is inconsistent and generally lousy, the is dialogue rife with lines no real person would ever say, and the plot is built on absurd horror tropes stitched together to create a Frankenstein monster of a game. It’s so ridiculously …

The odd couple Resident Evil: Revelations 2 has one of the most hilarious gaming team-ups I’ve seen in a long time. The last time I played this game, it was through the eyes of Resident Evil veteran Claire Redfield and newcomer Moira Burton. In terms of survival horror team-ups, this …

This week, we’re highlighting the top five titles in our Game of the Year 2014 (opens in new tab) list. Alien: Isolation (opens in new tab) ranks at #3 – and here’s Lucas Sullivan’s take on what makes it so awesome. I’ll admit it: the only Alien movie I’ve seen …

Face your fears So you think you know what you’re up against in The Evil Within. You’ve seen the lurching masses of grey-faced undead, the spider-armed women, the water creatures with human molars that are unsettling for reasons you can’t quite describe. With that in your back pocket, you think …

Climbing into a metal storage room lined with moist, gleaming viscera, I spot one of the undead Haunted horde, chowing down on some unlucky sucker. I quietly sneak up behind it, but it hears me somehow and turns around to attack… just in time for a giant tentacle to slide …

You can admire its purity The iconic Alien franchise has seen some ups and downs in the cinemas, with slightly better luck with games. While disappointing sequels/prequels like Prometheus and Aliens vs. Predator are worth forgetting, most of the Xenomorphs’ games have fared a little better. There have been more …

Parental advisory Remember when everyone used to think that games were just for kids? It took ages to convince the mainstream media that people of all ages can play them too. Sure, some still offer very child-like experiences, but many are complex, interesting, often violent adventures that should really only …