I’m still getting over Insanidade (Insanity). If you missed my playthrough of the first handful of the indie game’s 50+ levels, you can get started on that here. It’s Slender meets Silent Hill, and it’s horrifying. You’re unarmed and given a seemingly simple goal — to escape. Unfortunately, this task proves close to impossible when you meet the many disturbed denizens that call that game their home.
This includes a hallway filled with mannequin-like creatures obviously inspired by the the nurse scene in the original Silent Hill film. There’s also a creepy shadow girl that follows you around making weird noises and weird mannequin creatures with arms protruding from their chests. Those guys make screaming baby noises by the way.
Yeah, it’s fucked up.
When it comes to isometric zombie apocalypse shooters, this generation has been a mixed bag. Burn Zombie Burn is fun, if not very memorable, and Konami’s Zombie Apocalypse (which has seen two games) sucks rotten zombie balls. That leaves us with Dead Nation which is both memorable and way more entertaining than a pair of wrinkled, dried up, smelly Walker nuts could ever hope to be. It’s gory and brings with it addictive co-op and an inventive meta-game, which pits the zombie killing prowess of entire countries against each other. If I remember correctly, back when I was playing it Japan was destroying us.
A sequel can’t come soon enough and if a recent tease is anything to go by, we may not have long to wait before we hear from it.
I can’t wait to read all the comments saying I’m crazy for calling Minecraft a horror game, because it totally is.
When the sun is up you’re tasked with scavenging for supplies and crafting tools and weapons so you can survive the night, when the monsters come out to play. The sudden appearance of a Creeper, arrow to the knee from a hidden Skeleton or misplaced step next to a pool of lava have made me yell just as many times as Dead Space did.