Ok so I'm here at work and bored as well, so let's have a debate. I say that Silent Hill Shattered Memories is the best horror game ever made, and I challenge anyone to argue it.
You may have guessed by name that I'm a big horror game fan, and you'd be right. I've played em all since that crazy one on snes and alone in the dark on pc. I also am a massive horror fan, who goes after the foreign and obscure seriously twisted movies.
So I've been waiting for a true atmospheric and amazing horror game for years. Stand outs over the years include System Shock 2, Silent hill 2-4, Fatal Frame 1 and 2, both condemneds, and Call of Cthulu on xbox. Why'd I pick these? Because of atmosphere and the choice to include eerie portions of the game without combat. Horror movies are not scary because of fighting, yet horror games cram it in as much as they can. It ALWAYS ruins the immersion in my book. I don't play these games for challenge or thrills, I play it for pure fear.
That's why resident evil isn't on my list. The poor acting, the bad music, and the endless fights and gun battles, make it not scary in the least. And that's going back to number 1 up till now. That's not to say I didn't like them, just they were as scary as gears of war.
SH:SM though . . . Wow. Truly an interactive horror movie, and daringly dropping combat and many game conventions in the name of immersion. Ideas like the cell phone, and the shrink sessions truly take this to the next level. It really felt like I played through a movie written by Junji Ito or Takeshi Shimizu.
So give it a go, let's debate. Is there any horror game better than SH:SM?
Last year's game of the year turned out to be Silent Hill : Shattered Memories (online GOTY was COD 6). This year's GOTY leader to me is Heavy Rain.
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