Sure, Guillermo Del Toro is hard at work on that At The Mountains of Madness film, but he’s also working on a videogame that deals with people losing their minds.
inSANE (their capitalization) is the name of the project, and a tiny teaser trailer just premiered at this weekend’s Spike TV Videogame awards. It doesn’t really offer much but the feeling of the game, and some hope that it will be as scary as they’re trying.
THQ has announced that this will actually be a trilogy of games that will be developed by Volition Inc., the guys behind Saints Row and Red Faction.
“With this new series of videogames, I want to take players to a place they have never seen before, where ever single action makes them question their own senses of morality and reality,” said del Toro in a press release. “THQ and Volition, Inc. are equally excited to make this vision of a completely new game universe into a reality.”
Here comes the drop- the game’s not planned to release till 2013. Expect the first chapter to hit PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
Can’t wait to play a game where your biggest foe is your own mind? Here’s three games you can and should pick up ASAP.
Sanitarium
The classic adventure game. You play a guy who wakes up in an asylum after a car accident with bandages all over your face, with no idea how you got there or who you really are. Each level is a trip into the man’s mind and it just gets more and more depraved. I picked it up from GoG recently and found out that’s it’s still as effective now as when it was released back in 1998. Creepy as hell with some fantastic environments and solid voice acting, definitely holds a special little place in my twisted heart.
Arkham Horror
A board game that will take over your life (and devour your dining room table). You play one of a number of investigators who have noticed strange things going on in 1920s Arkham- cult members and monsters appearing, and gates to other worlds. You either go on your own or band together with other people to seal them and save the town. The game’s notorious for being overly complex but it really isn’t- once you get things in motion (and set everything up) it’s quite simple to dive into. Winning, however, is another thing entirely. Most likely, a Great Old One will awaken in Arkham and consume your poor characters. But that’s half the fun! Pick this up and pick up a spare table to be able to hold the damn thing.
Check out Fantasy Flight’s page for more.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
This might just be the scariest videogame I’ve ever played. Scarier even than Fatal Frame or the first Silent Hill. It just came out in September but I haven’t been able to beat it because I refuse to play it except in the dark, and it’s doing such a great job of freaking me out that I can’t play it for long. The atmosphere is almost too much- little sound constantly echo around you, you start having visions and seeing things, and just wait till you have to hide in the dark from enemies…
See the official site and play it at night with the surround sound cranked, if you’ve got the guts.
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Huge error leaving Eternal Darkness off of that list of awesome sanity-wrecking games.
You know, I wasn't the biggest fan of that game. Sure, the insanity gimmick was good, but the gameplay was pretty lousy. Never even finished it after getting sick of backtracking all over the goddamn place.
There was a Sierra Adventures game called "Shivers" that tried to capitalize on the success of "Myst" by using the same type of gameplay as you explored an abandoned museum. It was kind of creepy as you wandered about the spooky exhibits, haunted by some cheesy Aztec demons.
@ JRummel
This site ignores anything Nintendo related, so it's no surprise they left off the a masterpiece of horror such as Eternal Darkness. Nintendo published it, so it means it will not even get a mention in this site.
God, Just what we needed added to the game genre: Eyeballs in hands.
Scary games:
1) "Silent Hill 2" (better than the first)
2) "Clock Tower" (none of the sequels, and I'm talking about the American one, not the SNES Japanese one)
3) "Alien VS Predator 2" (PC)
4) "Decay" series (sorry, I worked on this game, had to throw it in here, its an Xbox Live Indie game)
5) "Dead Space" (fuck, this game refuses to let me finish it)
6) "BioShock" (it works, very scary)
7) "Fatal Frame" (uber scary)
8) "ObScure" (very scary, moreso for a Kevin Williamson vibe, though)
Those are just a few. "Sanitarium" is a masterpiece, as well. Oh yeah, the soundtrack to "Silent Hill: The Room" is scary, as well.
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This looks great. How about 7th Guest or 11th Hour those games were freaky.
If you're a Lovecraft fan, then you have to play Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth for Xbox.
The part of Call of Cthulhu where you're being pursued by the fish people and have to keep locking doors behind you as you try to escape the city? Scary and fun as hell. Wish they had made those other two Cthulhu games….
Guillermo can't go one week without attaching his name to a new product and getting his name in the news. Next week we'll hear he's got his own brand of tampons coming out. i am sick to death of del toro, also I bet this game does shit for sales because it won't have an easy to sell angle when it comes to the gameplay
I will agree with #6 on Dead Space and add one to the list which nobody has spoken about: Condemned (the first one). Such a scary game.
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