Top 10 scariest video games
Here’s a great list of ghoulish games to get you through another Halloween.
10. Clock Tower
A crazy scissor man is out to cut you up in a point and click Playstation game. A title I never had a chance to play, but I really doubt I’m missing much.
Rats! Another PC game I can’t try out since I switched to a Mac. Oh well, there are lots of other scary games out there.
A great reason to buy a Gamecube. This survival horror masterpiece had a cool “sanity” meter. Let it drop too low and strange things would happen to the television picture or your character’s head would explode. Too bad it had that awful magick alignment junk that had you jumping back and forth between the game and your item screen.
7. Darkseed
I missed a game with art by H. R. Giger? I need to see if I can find a copy of this for the Playstation. Update: I don’t think it came out on the Playstation. I did find a video walk through of the Amiga version.
6. Doom 3
I bought this the day it was released and my damn computer couldn’t run it. After getting an Xbox 360, I was finally able to get the crap scared out of me. This is one of those intense games I can only play for a about an hour and then I have to quit.
A haunted prison and violent inmates. I’m glad this one just made it on the Xbox 360 backwards compatibility list.
The Atari Jaguar had a decent game? No way! I can’t believe it. It looks like a crummy maze game to me.
When that zombie doberman crashed through the window I nearly crashed through the roof. This game got me into survival horror and was only made better in the Gamecube remake.
Another game I missed, but I still have a second chance since it showed up on the Xbox 360 backwards compatibility list. I may be taking pictures of ghosts in the near future.
1. Silent Hill
Hands down, the best horror game ever made. Complex story, creepy monsters and dimensional shifts between evil town and really evil town. Forget that movie, this is what you want to experience.
Games that should have made the list:
All the other Silent Hill games should be there. No other horror game comes close to what the Silent Hill series has achieved. Go play it!
Condemned: Criminal Origins deserves a slot as well. This Xbox 360 launch title is a first person shooter that takes away the guns and replaces them with lots of hand-to-hand combat with anything you can get your hands on. Throw in a some forensic investigation and a psychopath and you have one scary game.
X-Com: UFO Defense! Not really a horror game, but it scared me. It had creepy music and you never knew where the aliens were until your soldiers spotted one. It made me jump more than once. Now I want to play it again. I wonder if there’s a DOS emulator for the mac …
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