Last week, I discussed
some horror game franchises that should return, but there are some games out there you can play right now that'll get you in the Halloween mood.
Want to be a part of creating an awesome new survival
horror game franchise?
Not exact matches
The iconic
horror franchise is coming to current - generation consoles, and it looks to be a doozy: Konami, the developer behind the «Silent Hill» series, released a free «playable trailer» for the
game this summer — and it, unto itself, is one of the best
horror games ever made.
Sony kicked off its virtual reality news by showing a demo of a new installment of the popular Resident Evil action -
horror video
game franchise that will work on both Sony's PlayStation 4 gaming console as well as the new virtual reality headset.
As brilliant as it is bloody, Resident Evil 7 doesn't just give the
franchise a refreshing reboot, but also raises the bar for future survival
horror games... If we had to nitpick, we'd say the campaign's a bit short and the enemy variety slightly lacking.
Silent Hills, the next edition of the
horror franchise to be developed by Kojima Productions, was abruptly canceled in April, and P.T., the
game's «playable teaser» was removed from the PlayStation Store, with no means of redownloading for those who had already acquired it.
This love for our favorite genre turned into an opportunity to work on one of the most influential
horror franchises in video
games.
If you can look past the technical hiccups, this is a challenging and entertaining
horror game, irrespective of any
franchise tie - in.
This entry in the
franchise brings a lot of firsts to the series, with the biggest departure being the fact that it is no longer a third person survival -
horror game but more of a dungeon crawler with a heavy multiplayer focus.
Resident Evil 4 broke the
franchise free from the confines of fixed camera angles and gave us a
horror game with a huge dose of action.
For all the hype THE EVIL WITHIN got as a new survival
horror game from the twisted mind of Shinji Mikami, THE EVIL WITHIN 2 is what legitimized the
franchise as a space to pay attention to for
horror fans.
Back in 1981, the original version of The Evil Dead launched the directing career of Sam Raimi and a
horror franchise that would run to two sequels, not to mention a comic - book series, video
games and a musical, over the next 25 years.
While it's sad that the bigger AAA Survival
Horror games seem to be disappearing as publishers try to minimize risk or move away from single - player offline titles, and beloved scary
franchises like Silent Hill or Dead Space aren't getting new entries, at least we have Capcom and Bethesda releasing big epic Survival
Horrors and all the cool indie titles like Outlast and Observer picking up the slack.
There was a time when any other survival
horror game struggled to escape the shadows of Capcom's prize
franchise.
Considered to be not only one of the best
horror games of the Playstation 2, considered to be not only the best of the Silent Hill
franchise (this can be argued by some), Silent Hill 2 is often considered to be one of the best
horror games in the history of video
games.
Game Description: Revealing a brand new storyline in this
horror franchise, Resident Evil: Revelations has players investigating a deadly threat on board a stranded cruise liner in the Mediterranean.
Friday the 13th: The
Game is a third person survival horror game that is set within the fictional camp of Crystal Lake in the Friday the 13th franch
Game is a third person survival
horror game that is set within the fictional camp of Crystal Lake in the Friday the 13th franch
game that is set within the fictional camp of Crystal Lake in the Friday the 13th
franchise.
Some surprisingly artful
franchise sequels impressed us this year, but it was
game - changing indie romances and
horrors that won out
This is an extremely large commercial intake considering that Screen Gems have hardly dedicated the largest budget to their
game - based
horror franchise.
Though Jacob's Ladder is still one of the more underrated films on this list, it's still holds a huge sway on the
horror genre, having inspired the Silent Hill game franchise, American Horror Story: Asylum, and
horror genre, having inspired the Silent Hill
game franchise, American
Horror Story: Asylum, and
Horror Story: Asylum, and more.
On a side note, one thing that long - time survival
horror fans might notice when watching is that the many aspects of the film are eerily reminiscent of the Silent Hill video
game franchise, with several locations, visual aspects and even some of the monstrous creature designs being cited as influences upon the hugely successful video
game franchise.
Personally speaking, the changes implemented in RE7 were something the
franchises was in desperate need of for quite some time and I think it is a testament to just how good Capcom's latest entry in the survival
horror genre is that despite initial skepticism by long - time fans over something as controversial as the shift to first person many people have walked away absolutely loving the
game.
But, if you haven't, we'd urge you to take a look at this dev diary from the team at Visceral in which they explain how lightning plays one of the most important roles in the sequel to 2009's highly acclaimed
horror game's debut, and the
franchise in general.
The Creative Assembly has crafted a first - person survival -
horror game that will truly be worthy of the «Alien»
franchise.
Even outside of the Halloween season, Alien: Isolation is a title I'd recommend to anybody with even a passing interest in either
horror games or the Alien
franchise as a whole.
The modern world has proven just how great the appeal for more advanced
games fit for the young minds of today has become, the old shovelware nonsense of the past has been surpassed by fun, entertaining, and thoroughly educational
games like space tactics
game FTL, rocket science themed masterpiece Kerbal Space Program, and even the popularity of, while darker and more advanced (and for older children) than the other two, the insane popularity of the
horror franchise Five Nights at Freddy's and its habit of making the players work and dig for its story elements which have created communities of amateur sleuths.
Lately the Resident Evil
game franchise has got a lot more action and less
horror.
The first two
games did well critically and commercially, but Dino Crisis 3 made the tactical error most
horror movie
franchises make when they run out of ideas; they went to space.
In a month that includes the long - awaited release of the Ubisoft opus Watch Dogs, the PS4 debut of baseball super
franchise MLB 14: The Show, and the first batch of DLC for
horror gem Outlast, Transistor is easily the
game I'm most excited about in May.
Authentic to the
Franchise: The
game draws expertise from
horror icons including Sean S. Cunningham, Tom Savini, composer Harry Manfredini and Kane Hodder.
The movie
franchise, based on the
horror - survival video
game franchise of Capcom, is the most successful film
franchise based on a video
game.
F.E.A.R. Online is a free - to - play,
horror - themed online first - person shooter (FPS) set in the same storyline as the F.E.A.R.
game franchise.
Even though Sony is pushing two zombie - themed
games in Days Gone and The Last of Us 2, the new property from SIE Bend Studio looks like it will be rather different from Naughty Dog's acclaimed
horror franchise.
If you can look past the technical hiccups, this is a challenging and entertaining
horror game, irrespective of any
franchise tie - in.
Overview Take one of the most successful
horror franchises in the video
game world and hand it off to a tactical military
game developer and throw in more than enough mediocrity and you have Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City.
The Resident Evil
franchise, which pioneered the
horror genre in video
games, has sold 60 million units since 1996 and spawned a series of successful motion pictures that have grossed over $ 900 million worldwide.
«Resident Evil 7» goes back to the
franchise's
horror game roots.
Reboot Dead Space as a
horror franchise, maybe we'll get another good
game in there before they ruin it again.
Overall Silent Hill is and remains my most favorite
horror game I've ever played; it's very sad that the series had been brutally stabbed to death by Konami, just when Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro took it upon themselves to revive the
franchise and give it a new life, Konami decided to axe the project and kill the
franchise for good.
Academy Award - nominated and Golden Globe - winner Sigourney Weaver (Ellen Ripley), Tom Skerritt (Dallas), Veronica Cartwright (Lambert), Harry Dean Stanton (Brett) and Yaphet Kotto (Parker) discuss reprising their roles in a video
game and the legacy of one of the most enduring
horror franchises in movie history.
The F.E.A.R.
franchise has given me some of the worst jump scares I have ever experienced with a
horror game.
While it's sad that the bigger AAA Survival
Horror games seem to be disappearing as publishers try to minimize risk or move away from single - player offline titles, and beloved scary
franchises like Silent Hill or Dead Space aren't getting new entries, at least we have Capcom and Bethesda releasing big epic Survival
Horrors and all the cool indie titles like Outlast and Observer picking up the slack.
One another example is
horror games, where I know a lot of female
gamers who love Silent Hill -
franchise, but would rather watch a Lets Play of it than play it themselves because they think the
game is hard for some reason, same goes with Souls
games.
Other select
game design and directing credits include Ubisoft's arcade hit «Naruto — Rise of a Ninja», Tom Clancy's «Rainbow Six 3 — Raven Shield», the cult action -
horror «The Mummy»
franchise and Ubisoft's gaming classic «Rayman».
That means the video -
game - based action -
horror franchise will continue to inhabit the mid-September slotting of the second - through - fourth movies, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, Resident Evil: Extinction and Resident Evil: Afterlife.
After the colossal mess that was Alien: Colonial Marines, it seemed like Sega wanted to redeem itself with fans of the
franchise with Alien: Isolation, a
game that trades in the futuristic weaponry and claustrophobic corridor shooting for a first - person survival
horror experience that pits players one on one with H.G.
One thing that can safely be said is that they aren't holding back on the
horror this time, something that got one of the most popular
games in the
franchise; Resident Evil 4 a lot of positive light.
The enemy design was among the most creative the
franchise ever achieved, the speed and fluidity of combat made the
game simply feel more enjoyably to play and the story and lore pays homage to some of the best
horror writers the world has ever known.
Hifumi Kouno and his development company, Nude Maker, is producing a new
horror video
game franchise.
The Resident Evil
franchise has been going downhill for quite some time as the classic
horror was removed in favor of a more action focused
game.