5: Architects are clinically insane: Can we truly be sure that Raccoon City’s inhabitants were the victims of the T-Virus? My personal theory is that, rather than becoming infected by a biologically engineered disease, they were simply driven mad by years of having to use keys in the shape of helmets and pushing blocks around rooms just to open fucking doors.
It seems that most buildings in survival horror games were designed by schizophrenic lunatics who felt that it should take two hours to get from the kitchen to the bathroom, with a collected eighteen miles of backtracking in between. Why does a hotel need a working music box to open a door? How did the local council give that planning permission!? It doesn’t matter, because it’s part of why survival horror is awesome.
Let me preface this by saying I just can’t get into MMOs. They just don’t hold my interest. So while the idea of a horror MMO is a neat idea, I doubt I’ll play it.
That being said G4’s The Feed has news on a new horror MMO called Requiem: Bloodymare that has been announced for early 2008. The user plays as a lab created super being whose powers come from science and the occult. They are battling monsters who have been created by abuse of science and….the occult. The game is being made by Gravity Interactive and will use the Havok engine.
Personally, I think it sounds lame. Also the name is stupid. So what do you think? Check out their website here(there’s not much there but a short trailer that doesn’t show anything) then head over to our forums and give us your opinion.
Hey guys, now I can finally quit talking about Manhunt 2, since I just finished it on my PS2. I thought it was a lot of fun. If you liked the previous Manhunt game, then you gotta play Manhunt 2. If you’ve never played either one, then I’d suggest you at least give it a try; its a horror game that really has its own thing going on. On the other hand, if you did try the previous game and you didn’t care for it, then I’d have to recommend you avoid this sequel since it’s ultimately very similar to the original.
Some day when I have a Wii, I’ll probably play the game again on that system - then you can hear me talk about it all over again!
Manhunt 2 has been getting pretty good reviews, although I’m sure a lot of people fall squarely into the “not interested” category, like the guys over at Penny Arcade. I love PA, but I don’t really appreciate Tycho’s assessment that Manhunt 2’s entire purpose is to “make your parents mad.”
I’ve been playing the game in short bursts for the past few nights. I’m a few levels in and am really enjoying it. But then, I loved the first Manhunt so I guess I am the target audience for this sequel.
I can definitely see how it’s not a wide-appeal game, and I can also see where people could feel like Tycho does and think the game is just gratuitously offensive. For example, last night I played a level where I had a shoot-out in a porno theater, complete with a skin flick playing on the movie screen during the battle. Not exactly subtle.
I hope to put in a few more hours over the weekend and will talk a little about it on the next Splattercast.
Interesting coincidence. We were just talking about one of our favorite PC games called Phantasmagoria in Splattercast number 47. I got to this article about the game via Destructoid today. The article features tons of video, mostly of Carno killing his wives, and a basic run down of the plot.
After discussing men’s room etiquette, we read the new chapter in our original fiction series The Disease of Death. Then we review the South Korean slasher flick Bloody Reunion and reminisce for entirely too long about our favorite horror video games. In fact, the gaming talk goes on for so long that we decide to continue the discussion in a future episode.
Don’t forget to let us know which are your favorite horror video games so we can give them a shout-out next episode. Simon’s Quest forever!
Look for Splattercast #46 later on tonight. We went on an extended, rambling dicussion of our favorite horror videogames. In fact, we had so much to say that we had to cut it off for the sake of time; we’ll plan to continue in a future episode.
We’re certain that we won’t remember every great horror video game so we need your input. Add a comment here on this post, or visit our forum or email us to let us know what some of your favorite horror video games are and we’ll be sure to mention them on an upcoming episode. Any system is fair game: PC, NES, Playstation, Game Boy, etc. Heck, if you remember a great horror game on your old Colecovision, let us know!
At the German video game show Leipzig they had a brief teaser trailer for a zombie based FPS called Dead Island. The teaser and the photo gallery don’t show a whole lot but so far the game looks beautiful. Hopefully this studio pulls it off and makes a fun game. I’ll be keeping an eye on this one.
I just finished F.E.A.R. and I’m glad I did. What a pile of crap. This game has gotten so many accolades that I figured there was no way it could possibly suck. How wrong I was. It’s short, incredibly repetitive, has no boss battles, and has a really stupid plot that you’ll be able to figure out from the very beginning. I can’t tell you how sick I was of shooting the same damn bad guys over and over again while running through incredibly linear office buildings. It also has one of the most unsatisfying conclusions to a game I’ve ever played. Worse, it wasn’t even scary, which was part of the selling point of the game. Great sound fx and pretty much nothing else.
It’s a Resident Evil kind of evening for me. I just got out of Resident Evil: Extinction. It was ok, really bloody. I might write a review.
Anyway, I got home and logged on to the good old internets. Turns out the new Resident Evil game is actually set in Haiti, not Africa. Suppose people will learn not to jump to conclusions?
More horror video game news via destructoid, they have a preview of Clive Barker’s Jericho with some cool new screenshots. The writer isn’t overwhelmingly positive on the game and describes several issues, but on a purely visual level I think the game looks great and very “Barker-ish”.
Figure I’d give this whole front page post thing a go since someone decided to give me access.
Destructoid had a few interesting things up today. A new survival horror game called Rainy Woods and a first person rail shooter for the Wii called Zombie Massacre. I might check out Rainy Woods but I am not a fan of rail shooters so I’ll probably be skipping Zombie Massacre.
The guy makes an interesting point with Zombie Massacre. Why are there so few games about zombies? Especially when the horror movie genre is so over saturated with zombie movies.
