D: The Game
As a fan of the late Kenji Eno (R.I.P) and the now defunct WARP Studios games, I was really happy to see that D (WARP’s first game to be released outside of Japan) is now easily accessible on Steam.
D was originally made for the short lived 3DO in 1995 and was ported to the Sega Staurn, PS1, and MS DOS (which is this version). The gameplay is akin to 1993’s Myst, with the entire game being an fmv. Yet, unlike Myst, everything is fully animated. So if you want to get somewhere, you are going to have to walk there using a pre-set path. It’s kinda slow, but it really helps build the atmosphere.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
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I own this game on Playstation, 3DO, Saturn and now on Steam, and I don’t regret paying for it again, even though it hasn’t aged well, and even though this is a fairly mediocre DOSBox port.
D is an on-rails horror-suspense game from the 90s. You play as Laura Harris, daughter of Dr. Richter Harris, a famous physician who, for some reason, has suddenly decided to murder everyone in his hospital and disappear inside the building. You have two hours (in real time) to figure out why, with no saving, interactive movie-style.
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
F.E.A.R.
“Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can’t get out of it if we would.” ― Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Wow, has it really been 15 years since this classic hit our gaming libraries? I must confess, some games do not age well, but F.E.A.R. is not one of them. After all this time, it still is one of the best horror fps titles around, by even establishing some ground rules for the genre and introducing the best A.I. ever in horror fps. Let’s take a close look at Monolith’s timeless masterpiece, then.
– Real player with 31.5 hrs in game
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This game is a fu*king masterpiece! After so many years, the only thing that has aged badly is graphics. Compared to modern standards it is ugly…
but the game is so much fun that I dont mind it!
The physics is great fun, the AI is still very good, they flank you they hide and shoot from cover.
The guns are awesome and you can feel ‘the joy’ when you kill your enemies with them I personaly love dual pistols, shotgun and… NAIL RIFLE, a rifle that shoots big metal bolts, kind of like wooden stakes for vampires but a bit smaller and metal, and every enemy you kill with it is literaly… nailed to a wall or any other surface behind him and stays that way, which is great as the engine keeps the bodies on map for a very
– Real player with 31.3 hrs in game
Resident Evil 0
A classic Resident Evil (RE) game 🕹️
By that, I mean fixed camera angles, “tank” controls*, door animation transitions, ink ribbons, red-green-blue herbs, and the associated gameplay. If you played RE 1 (1996, 2002), RE 2 (1998), RE 3 (1999), or RE Code: Veronica (2000), you should have a pretty good idea of what to expect. You will be shooting, knifing, or evading enemies, solving puzzles, reading files, collecting key items, and all that good stuff, but with a twist! Well, two twists, actually. And they will probably make or break the game for you.
– Real player with 130.3 hrs in game
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Pros
Looks Great In HD
Good Replayability
Classic Survival Horror (for fans of genre)
Cons
Inventory Management
Clunky Game-Design Shows Its Age
Rubbish Bosses
‘Zero’ is a curious entry in the Resident Evil franchise, most of the game is familiar territory except for its partner system which allows switching between characters and defeating enemies together as a team. This adds a different element than from previous games but does end up being quite hit or miss. There is enough quality here to make it worth your while if you’re a fan of the series or genre. However, for anyone uninitiated that is considering this I would instead play Resident Evil 1 Remake as it’s vastly superior.
– Real player with 21.7 hrs in game
8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I
It’s a really good port of the set of three classic and somewhat questionably designed adventure games.
If you’ve never played these games, they’re three NES point and click games that have some charming writing, somewhat obtuse puzzles and like to kill you if you click on the wrong thing very abruptly. There will some people who find this annoying rather than amusing, but you can save anywhere quickly so it’s rarely a big deal. Still, mileage varies. They’re old-school, know what you’re getting into.
– Real player with 14.9 hrs in game
Collection of 3 classic adventures with improved mouse interface. That feature alone makes it worth every penny! If you grew up playing the NES versions of ICOM’s fantastic MacVenture titles, this one’s a no brainer.
Cons:
It’s a bit light on extra features (original manuals, even in text-only form would’ve been good) and it sadly keeps some bugs - such as Deja Vu’s save glitch. Achievements are oddly sparse, only the more famous/infamous deaths seem to count towards them but maybe not even the ones you expect.
– Real player with 13.0 hrs in game
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Alone in the Dank: The New Nightmare was 2001 reboot of the series, after a long pause. Seeing how Resident Evil took AitD1 mechanics and improved them directly, this reboot also rides directly on top of what Resident Evil did. Pretty much same controls and all. Spooky. Well, it’s not exactly a reboot, it can be seen as taking place in same universe as original, but mostly because “every 40 years new Edward Carnby is born” and that’s about it, no relationship otherwise. Yep, it’s a new Carnby, with fancy hair. Kinda sexy.
– Real player with 16.2 hrs in game
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare is a pretty good remake of a classic horror game series, but now let’s take about the story.
But before I tell you the story like all ways do, like the very first game you can play as two people but unlike the first game were only the opening changed, in this game you get to do more stuff to do like new puzzles to solve and more of the story, anyway back to the story.
It’s a dark and stormy night in Massachusetts as private investigator Edward Carnby learns that his best friend Charles Fiske is dead; his body found off the cost of an Island called Shadow Island, he was investigating the Island and some mystery tablets till he was found dead.
– Real player with 14.0 hrs in game
Alone in the Dark 1
For anyone who doesn’t already know, this is the very first survival horror game every made. It first released in 1992 on floppy disk, 1993 on many Japanese computers of the time and on CD-ROM, finally releasing on the 3DO in 1994.
Before this review turns into a history lesson about the entire survival horror genre, I’ll get on with the game itself.
Positives:
Despite the character models looking very rough-around-the-edges today, I think there’s a certain charm to them.
Considering this is the first game of its genre, it gets terrifying at times!
– Real player with 11.1 hrs in game
Alone in the Dark 1 AKA the first game in the Alone in the Dark series is a classic horror game, it has its problems but let’s get into the story.
First off you can play as one of two people in this game Emily Hartwood the niece of Jeremy Hartwood or Edward Carnby a private investigator dealing with paranormal shenanigans.
Anyway after the death of Jeremy Hartwood, Emily Hartwood goes to the Derceto house to find out why her uncle killed himself.
Or you play as private investigator/paranormal investigator Edward Carnby, who was hired by Gloria Allen an owner of an antique store to go to the Derceto house to get an old piano with secret drawers.
– Real player with 8.8 hrs in game
Alone in the Dark 2
Probably the first survival horror games ever made and boy they done it right!
Great atmosphere, amazing graphics for the time, the sounds and music so creepy that it actually gives me chills till this day.
The stories are quite familiar and considered to be a classic horror stories taken from known books.
The puzzles are freaking insanely hard, and the games (1,2,3) as a whole are not easy at all to say the least.
I’m ashamed to admit that I never managed to finish any of them as a kid but oh man now that iv’e done it it was quite a ride, an epic blast from the past!
– Real player with 15.6 hrs in game
Alot of improvements following on from the first game. At the time in 1994 the controls would of felt alot more polished compared to the original game but in today modern era they are still horrible. Some excellent game play script events in this one compared to the first one espically the bit where you get to blow up the entire sleeping quaters with a cannon. This one foccuses alot more on combat compared to the original game which you can tell straight from the start of the game where youre given a machine gun and every other guard drops ammo. The puzzles are really fun in this game and challenging and the fact half way through the game you get to play as the young lass which adds some more player variety in the game.
– Real player with 12.4 hrs in game
Alone in the Dark 3
წინებისაგან განსხვავებით ამან მაგარი გამაწვალა. ძალიან ბევრი თავსატეხი უბრალოდ უაზრობაა და ამოხსნის ლოგიკა ვერ დავიჭირე. პლუს ძააალიან ცუდი პოზიციონირება აქვს, ანუ მაგალითად ერთ ადგიალს გავიჭედე, მივედი მილთან ვცადე გახსნა, არაფერი არ ქნა, ვტრიალებ ერთი საათი წრეზე და ბოლოს გასვლა მოვნახე და ბამ, ის მილი უნდა გააღო, ოღონდ მილიმეტრით გვერდით უნდა იდგე. ძალიან გამაღიზიანებელია… ისტორიაც არაა ისეთი ძლიერი, როგორც პირველის იყო და მეორესთან პირდაპირ კავშირშია ამავდროულად, მაგრამ არაფერი განსაკუთრებული. ბევრს ვერაფერს დავამატებ, დიდად აღფრთოვანებული არ ვარ, ხანგრძლივობას მოუმატეს თამაშის მაგრამ ხარისხი საკმაოდ დაბალია (გეიმფლეის მხრივ) ჩემი აზრით.
– Real player with 9.0 hrs in game
Probably the first survival horror games ever made and boy they done it right!
Great atmosphere, amazing graphics for the time, the sounds and music so creepy that it actually gives me chills till this day.
The stories are quite familiar and considered to be a classic horror stories taken from known books.
The puzzles are freaking insanely hard, and the games (1,2,3) as a whole are not easy at all to say the least.
I’m ashamed to admit that I never managed to finish any of them as a kid but oh man now that iv’e done it it was quite a ride, an epic blast from the past!
– Real player with 8.8 hrs in game
Doom 3: BFG Edition
Since Doom 3: BFG Edition is in fact a collection of games, it makes sense to evaluate the games individually.
Two old-school DOS Doom games - The Ultimate Doom and Doom II: Hell on Earth - have been ported to run natively within Windows. These games are absolute classics, but unfortunately, the copies included in this package have two major problems: frame rate and censorship.
When launched directly through Doom 3: BFG Edition, Doom 1 and 2 have their frame rates capped. This means that these very old games can only have animation as smooth as is possible when they are played in DOS - an archaic operating system that, even for its time, had trouble managing and accessing memory that was physically available to the computer.
– Real player with 71.5 hrs in game
Doom 3 is an odd game since despite having a greater focus on horror, it’s still an action game at the end of the day. There’s more story compared to the original games, however it is nothing too special and it can be very predictable at times. Since Doom 3 is still an action game, your weapons are pretty strong and you can carry a ton of ammo with you. I am aware the BFG Edition added more but considering the lockers give you a ton of ammo anyways in the original Doom 3, I am confused as to why they even added more ammo to begin with. Doom 3 still has good atmosphere and a great interpretation of Hell that I think even Doom 2016 and Eternal do not capture. It really shows how terrifying Hell is for your normal person, or in this game’s case, a marine who is usually indifferent to a lot of things.
– Real player with 65.7 hrs in game
Harvester
At first glance, this game looks awful. It’s easy to dismiss it as just another zany product of the failed FMV phase of video games, especially with the game proudly and shamelessly wearing its exploitation label like a medal. “The goriest game of all time!” It says, sometimes coupled with screenshots that appear to show more gore-for-the-sake-of-gore. This is just the most obvious basis one can use to write Harvester off, but if you’re willing to venture beyond that, you’ll find many more.
It’s pretty meta, because Harvester throws the player off constantly. This in itself is one of the entire points of the game. The bizarre characters, the seemingly unclear satire on violence in video games, it’s all there for a reason, and it took me several playthroughs to get the full meaning. The first time through it’s just plain-old bizarre and enjoyable, though I recalled being intensely disappointed by the final act, especially the endings. Up to that point I had loved it in a purely “interactive B-movie” sense, but the game decided to throw even that away at its conclusion. Bundled with the atrocious combat system, it seemed like a wasted opportunity.
– Real player with 65.5 hrs in game
Before I start this review please be aware that this game features cannibalism, suicide, senicide, pedophilia, child abuse, molestation & all sorts of other fucked up subjects so if your sensitive, squeamish or a curious minor please keep your eyes/fingers off this game. (I might SPOIL some parts of the game or more so don’t read if you hate spoilers)
The best way I can describe Harvester in my opinion is the perfect serial killer simulator because of the bizarre atmosphere of the town of Harvest, the unsettling NPCs of this small town like Mr. Pottsham (obsessed with meat) who is a molester & a pervert who likes watching Stephanie 24/7 (I don’t blame him Stephanie has nice cur…… errr let’s continue) or Steve’s “mother” who is an extreme BDSM enthusiast (That bitch has all sorts of other issues which I won’t mention) & don’t forget the stages of a serial killer which you can read here http://www.criminalmindsfanwiki.com/page/Psychological+Phases if you wish.
– Real player with 26.0 hrs in game