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Tag Archives: survival horror
New millennium horrorthon
Fiction and video game adaptations, slashers, witches, zombies…here’s a mish-mosh of crap from the first decade of the 2000s. RIDING THE BULLET (2004) Based on a Stephen King novella, Riding the Bullet will really only work for you if you … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone in the Dark 2, gay horror, living dead, Mortuary, Museum of the Dead, Riding the Bullet, Stay Alive, Stephen King, supernatural, survival horror, undead, Venom, video games, witches, Zombies
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The Last of Us isn’t your standard survival horror game
In The Last of Us, you’re a man (who looks exactly like Dylan McDermott with a beard) on a mission to protect a girl (who looks and sounds exactly like Ellen Page) during the zombie apocalypse. And therefore, it’s much … Continue reading
Alan Wake – the horror of playing a bestselling author
It’s shocking to me that Alan Wake isn’t considered one of the scariest survival horror games of all time. It is so easily comparable to Silent Hill and is fricking terrifying! It’s also a visually beautiful game. And the attention … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Wake, Stephen King, survival horror, Xbox 360
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When dinos rocked survival horror…then went painfully extinct
In the 90s, the Resident Evil video game franchise was hot. And so was the Jurassic Park movie series. So Capcom did something brilliant; they replaced the zombies with dinosaurs and made Dino Crisis! DINO CRISIS The original Dino Crisis … Continue reading
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Tagged Dino Crisis, Dino Crisis 2, Dino Crisis 3, Dino Stalker, Playstation, survival horror, xbox
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The high point in the Alone in the Dark video game series
So this is how it goes. Infogrames created a groundbreaking 3D survival horror game in 1992, about a couple of people stuck in a mansion full of monsters. While Infogrames went on to create 2 sequels that made the game … Continue reading
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Tagged Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, survival horror, video games
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If David Boreanaz was a hunky video game character…
Instead of the vampire, he’d be the vampire slayer in this game! Countdown Vampires came out for the original Playstation during the major popularity of the true Resident Evil survival horror days. So reviewers at the time logically called it … Continue reading
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Tagged Countdown Vampires, Playstation, survival horror
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Saw and Saw II: the torture porn of survival horror video games
I’ve always been a fan of a good spanking, but I must be more hardcore than I realized to take the punishment the Saw video games administer. Why would I have expected anything less from games based on a movie … Continue reading
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Tagged Playstation 3, PS3, Saw, Saw II, survival horror, video games
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Fatal Frame 4: the most Asian horror installment yet
For reasons no one knows (that could only be idiotic reasons), Nintendo refused to release Fatal Frame 4: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse in the U.S. So in order to play it, I had to import the game from Japan … Continue reading
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A Silent Hill movie you watch just to say “That’s from the video games!”
While the original Silent Hill movie crammed together the premises of the 1st and 2nd video games, Silent Hill Revelation is predominantly based on the Silent Hill 3 video game. It does an awesome job of bringing the protagonist Heather … Continue reading
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Tagged Silent Hill Homecoming, Silent Hill Origins, Silent Hill Revelation, survival horror, video games
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Resident Evil Six or Resident Evil Sux?
So we all know that beginning with Resident Evil 4, Capcom gave up on the classic survival horror genre and turned it into an action series to gain not a BIGGER audience, but a DIFFERENT audience. And they succeeded. No … Continue reading
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Tagged Resident Evil 6, survival horror, video games, Zombies
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