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post #1 of 19
3/10/04 at 10:43pm
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Anybody else tried this game yet?...Picked it up yesterday, and I highly recommend it to fans of horror games. I've only really started to play it, but from what I have seen so far is actually fairly creepy. basicly you walk around in a prison overtaken by some fucked up creatures with long knives attached to their arms and legs. Sometimes when you walk into a room, you can hear a window break, but don't see anything; but then you can see the creature scurring around across the ceiling. Interested in hearing if anyone else has this, and what they think of it.
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post #2 of 19
3/11/04 at 12:36pm
I'll actually be going to the store during lunch today to pick this puppy up. I hope it's as good as I've been hearing.
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post #3 of 19
3/11/04 at 12:49pm
PC only games for me


but if it's available for the PC then *JOY!!*
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post #4 of 19
3/11/04 at 12:59pm
I hear it's good but has a very heavy focus on action; personally I was hoping for something more cerebral.
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post #5 of 19
3/11/04 at 1:05pm
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Originally posted by Rufus Rockefeller XIII
I hear it's good but has a very heavy focus on action; personally I was hoping for something more cerebral.
I hear it has a good non-linear story line.
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post #6 of 19
3/11/04 at 10:19pm
It's on top of my 'must play' list. Unfortunately, my press contact there fell through on me, so my review copy went away as well as the interview we were promised.

The earliest I'll be able to get a look at it will be this weekend, but hopefully I can have a review of it done sometime next week.
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post #7 of 19
3/12/04 at 7:51am
It's kind of like the last half of a Silent Hill game in a prison. Basically, it gets to the zany stuff pretty early on. Even the monsters look kind of Silent-Hillish. Plenty of gore, violence, bad language, and so on.

dmeister
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post #8 of 19
3/12/04 at 1:23pm
suffering is awesome
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post #9 of 19
3/13/04 at 5:37am
I've been playing it for a while now; the game does kick much ass. As with most survival horror games, you need to play it with the lights off and no-one around. The green-ghost-guy kicks ass, too.

dmeister
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post #10 of 19
3/13/04 at 2:16pm
Awesome dialogue.

It is action intensive but it is equally as cerebral.

Kick ass game so far!
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post #11 of 19
3/14/04 at 9:32am
I'm with Floyd...scored a copy tonight and played through the first four levels (about 40% of the game). So far, it is indeed completely kick ass. The mechanics are a little funky, but once you figure out that ammo conservation isn't on the menu here and really let the lead fly it can be a lot of fun.

The main thing for me so far...holy SHIT there's a lot of grue. Blood everywhere, rivers of it. You wind up covered in it from head to toe in tight, messy battles.

I'm greatly looking forward to the end.
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post #12 of 19
3/14/04 at 5:14pm
And here I had busted my ass trying to save everyone... Now that I beat the level as Mr. Nice Guy, maybe I'll go back through and play it on hard kicking everyone's ass!

dmeister
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post #13 of 19
3/14/04 at 5:49pm
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Originally posted by Floydian Trip
Awesome dialogue.

It is action intensive but it is equally as cerebral.

Kick ass game so far!
That's cool to hear, Floyd, I may have to pick this up. That was the only thing I was worried about. At first I thought this game looked awesome, but then all I'd see were clips of the guy shooting off machine guns and stuff. But it just moved up a few notches on my must buy list from the good words in here.
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post #14 of 19
3/14/04 at 6:02pm
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Originally posted by Dr. Vitus Werdegast
That's cool to hear, Floyd, I may have to pick this up. That was the only thing I was worried about. At first I thought this game looked awesome, but then all I'd see were clips of the guy shooting off machine guns and stuff. But it just moved up a few notches on my must buy list from the good words in here.
The story is mostly revealed via overheard radio broadcasts by guards and other inmates, as well as menacing from three different ghostly guys who don't exactly have your best interests in mind. You also have a couple of sidekicks that explain things as well. Finally, there are two 'scrapbooks' that slowly fill with info as you proceed through the game. One is from a prisoner named 'Clem' which describes the monsters in detail, the other is from the wife of a guard, Consuela, who elaborates on the island and it's history. You also get some flashbacks to things that happened in the past, via phone calls from dead people and disembodied voices.

In short, it isn't as story-rich as your typical Slient Hill or Fatal Frame game, it IS more of a shoot-em-up, but there is a plot here and it's fairly rich and interesting. If the bang-bang stuff doesn't interest you, though, best give it a miss.
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post #15 of 19
3/14/04 at 9:22pm
I haven't played meself, been watching Johnny play, but I must say that guy who sounds like Foghorn Leghorn is really amusing, if not somewhat out of place, heh.
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post #16 of 19
3/14/04 at 11:00pm
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that guy who sounds like Foghorn Leghorn is really amusing, if not somewhat out of place,
You might also have noticed that "Clem" (the "Foghorn leghorn" guy) bears a striking resemblance to Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens.

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In short, it isn't as story-rich as your typical Slient Hill.
I actually found much of the storyline more compelling and intriguing than a Silent Hill game. And Hermes was a sick, evil bastard; though he sounded cool as hell.

dmeister
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post #17 of 19
3/14/04 at 11:58pm
By the way, does anyone know if you actually get to go into town at all?

dmeister
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post #18 of 19
3/15/04 at 10:38am
Silent Hill's plot is kept confusing to add to the gameplay. In The Suffering it's confusing as you fit the pieces together via flashbacks, phonecalls, images, etc, but it will come together in the end unlike SIlent Hill where it's still all very vague when it's over. At least that's what I'm assuming.

I haven't heard of a town in this one yet just the asylum and ship wreck. I only got that from the behind the scenes trailer. I haven't read much about the game other than that.
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post #19 of 19
3/15/04 at 4:54pm
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I haven't heard of a town in this one yet just the asylum and ship wreck.
You'll see what I mean at the end of the game...

dmeister
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