If viewed from a third-person viewpoint, I think the atmosphere would have been lost in what may have looked and played like a half-baked action game. The brutality of the game doesn't pull any punches at all and the perspective definitely adds to that. Taking an alternate approach to the defenseless run and hide gameplay mechanics of more recent titles, Condemned features one of the most brutal and well-implemented hand-to-hand combat systems I've seen in a horror FPS. But it's still a fantastic game in spite of this. It would be higher on my list if not for the weird final chapters. There are so many moments that stand out so well for me in this game that it remains one of my favorites today. I loved the intense and gritty atmosphere, the lighting effects, the shadows and legitimately horrifying gameplay.
So here, and without further ado, I have listed some of my favorite survival horror games that like Resident Evil 7, use a first-person perspective for that all important level of immersion - and horror.Ĭondemned is a game that was criminally overlooked as an Xbox 360 launch title in favor of the Perfect Dark sequel, but for me, Condemned was the real system seller. And based on my experience with the demo, it is set to be a fantastic horror experience. They have given rise to many similar titles in the genre and now even the upcoming Resident Evil 7 has taken quite a lot of inspiration from those very games, right down to the first-person viewpoint. They opted for a more immersive first-person perspective and added in a feeling of helplessness with deeply oppressive atmospheres that had been lacking from the genre for so long.Īnd all of those indie titles have since had good success beyond the PC, and made their way to the current generation of consoles, too. That is until a passionate few indie developers brought in a sort of renaissance with titles like Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Slender Man, Outlast and others. Even Capcom's own Masachika Kawata declared there was no market for survival horror anymore. There has been the occasional exception to the rule, but overall, horror quickly fell out of favour with publishers.
And it all seems almost ironic that as revolutionary as Resident Evil 4 was at the time of its release, it was so in a totally unforeseen way: It was instrument in moving the genre into far less scary, more action based territory that influenced games for years to come.
The direction most big-budget horror games have been moving in in the last several years has been more action based than we've previously seen, and unfortunately, a lot of these action-horror games have lost their fear factors, too.
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The portrayal of the of the genre in gaming has varied over the years in my experience, as I've seen it implemented in 2D side-scrolling horror-fests like the aforementioned Alien 3, the static prerendered back drops of the first three Resident Evil games and the now familiar over-the-shoulder action oriented horror games like Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill, the Dead Space series and Gears Of War. Ever since I was first introduced to the genre through Alien 3 on the Sega Megadrive/Genesis and later Resident Evil on the original PlayStation, the survival horror genre has been a favorite of mine.
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