Best 13 Horror Box Art

With every horror game out there the box art is the first thing that stands out to us. It what gets our attention and draws us in. In celebration of Halloween I carefully sorted through all my horror games and chose the best 13 horror games.

Number 13
Emenium: The Ward

Just looking at this cover you question, what the hell am I looking at? Is it a face, a statue or some sort of ghost or demon?





Number 12

Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare

This yellow and black gives an eerie mixture especially with the man just lingering at the gate. As though he was some kind of serial killer, or a maniac drifter.





Number 11


Curse: Eye of Isis

When I first saw this I thought, “Did someone push this guys face up against a Xerox machine?” But he is suffering from some sort of abuse.




Number 10


Clive Barker’s Jericho

Well its face is only something his mother will love. Creepy, disfigured, and disturbingly gross.






Number 09
Clock Tower

Just seeing giant bloody scissors lunging towards you with a shady faceless man holding them. It’s something that will spook anyone, even with the cartoonish look of it.





Number 08


Condemned: Criminal Origins

A scared woman staring off into the distance, she looks like she sees something we can’t and is too scared to try and scream.






Number 07
Ghosthunter

People actually consider this game to be horror, I am not one of them, I thought this game was kiddies and being rated T doesn’t help. But the spooky part of this cover is that damn ghost in the corner. He spooks the hell out of me and I don’t care what anyone says.





Number 06
Resident Evil Director’s Cut

The original Resident Evil cover is pretty ridiculous as a beefy Chris holding a muscular gun to go with him. But this cover is creepy, as the first zombie you encounter in the game as looks over his shoulder at you. Proving that zombies are creepy.




Number 05
The Suffering

What game cover isn’t complete with a Frankenstein monster being strapped to an execution chair and a man with needles for his eyes in the corner?







Number 04
Resident Evil 3

Just looking into the eyes of a mutated Tyrant, let alone the main antagonist of the game staring at you.








Number 03
Silent Hill 3

Maybe I am being bias when I chose this one, but this cover really speaks to me. Girl in the corner with terror in her eyes, the background is nothing but rust and decay. Like it’s a sneak peak of her nightmares, which isn’t too far off from the story.







Number 02
Resident Evil Remake

Worse fear of the Resident Evil series is being attacked by a zombie and losing. As strongly expressed with Jill Valentine trying to fight off a zombie but ends up getting pushed farther against the table.







Number 01
Resident Evil Outbreak File 2

Just like Resident Evil Remake cover, this is actually THE cover of no hope. I mean the guy is pretty much just giving the gun to what looks to be Kevin. There is about three zombies holding this poor guy down, there is probably no way he is leaving that sewer alive.


Does anyone have their own opinion?

The Horrors Of White Day

From what I understand, White Day is a holiday celebrated in most Asian countries such as Taiwan, South Korea and Japan. Japan is the origin of this celebration. It takes place one month after February 14th Valentines Day. Valentines Day in Japan is usually for females to give to usually males who they like. Usually gives ranging in chocolate, candy, or cake. When White Day comes on March 14, the receiver will also give something to the girl such as chocolate, stuff animals, or more erotic gifts like lingerie.

This game White Day is set in South Korea on the eve or night of White Day. As a male protagonist, with a name I could not find, is set out to go inside the school at dark to plant some chocolates to a girl he likes. On the way you meet other classmates that talk about ghost stories about the school, inside some of the students witness the security guard of the school brutally kill someone with a baseball bat. As well as some students witnessing ghostly figure of schoolgirl around the school, and at one point attacking people.

It is up to the protagonist of this horror story to fight the ghosts and demons that haunt the school. Not with guns or any type of weapon, that is casual in a lot of horror games. But with his brain, by solving puzzles throughout to use to his advantage.
Not else is known about this game, a company in the United Kingdoms was suppose to translate and release it to the public, but I tried and could hardly find any evidence of this English version even existing, except the box cover for the game.

The only bet that a lot of people are hoping for is a fan translator to go in and translate this horror game. I for one would love to play this even if I had to pay for it to come here.

My Supernatural Game

I am probably one of the biggest fans of Supernatural. I have all their magazines, comics, DVD's, and I am even planning on ordering from the magazines T-shirts, posters, and novels of Supernatural.

What is Supernatural?
It's a television series, that is launching it's forth season today. It's about two brothers Sam and Dean who set off hunting anything paranormal. It's a mixture between X-Files and Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, and here's why. The first half an hour or so it's investigations, the duo investigates what they are hunting, they look for clues and hints to find out what they are dealing with. The last half an hour they do some ass kicking, as they hunt down and kill whatever is plaguing the world, whether it's a vampire, demons, ghosts, or something else.

Then there is the folklore involved, and unlike Buffy which has folklore on common monsters such as vampires, werewolves, and demons. Supernatural has some monsters that are forgotten legends, myths, gods, or folklore, that not many people heard of, such as one of my favorite a Tulpa. I was really excited as they hunted down something I thought not many people knew about.

With all this hype that is shown towards this show, especially at Comic-Con, why not make a game out of it?

After all there is tons of games about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and some about X-Files like my favorite "Resist or Serve." It has the styles of Resident Evil and Silent Hill, but also has it's own uniqueness as well. Or do something like they did with 24 The Game, where the story timeline takes place between season 2 and 3.

So why not make a Supernatural game with the same concept as a third-person shooter, having to investigate certain areas. Have driving playthroughs with Deans car, and some classic 80's music to go with it? It can be a horror game starting off with small things like a house filled with ghosts, and work the way up to a fight with a demon or some sort of god. Then to make the fans scream have all the actors lend their voices to the game. I am sure anyone who is or isn't fan of Supernatural will buy a game like that. I am not the only person who feels like this either with these links of forums.

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Hopefully sometime in the future it will be.

Trapt Bad Ending

I defeated Trapt before going to work today, I got the bad ending I couldn't defeat the final boss. A Fiend was really strong and I didn't know at the time (till I looked it up) how to defeat him. I would have restarted and do it over again but I got a cool looking trap for unlocking this ending. So when I feel like it, I will once again indulge myself in the massacres and slaying of humans.

If there is one thing I love is the main characters outfits they are all unique and different. The ones I like the most are Allura's and her maid Rachelle's. To me their outfits are the ying and yang of the game. Even though as Dark as Rachelle, is Allura is the one going around doing the bidding of the Evil Fiend.

Seeing how Allura wears very little clothing and nothing to protect her from physical attacks she can take damage quite easily and can get killed off with the right close range attacks compared to far range.

But less armor means more durability for faster movement and awkward positions through traps of the castle and you own.

The part that turns this story dark is Allura's personality at the beginning deaths and murders she committed she would be scared and would try to refuse the deeds. But more and more into the game she just watches over the corpses before her almost having no feeling for them left. This game is one dark game, something that you can either enjoy for the art, battle system, and techniques for death. Or just enjoy the idea of death and destruction in this crazy mansion, either way this is a great game, I only wish it could be a little longer.

Trapt

Out of a whim I decided to play Trapt last night and all I can say it WOW. You are the pretty princess Allura (In the trailer they call her Princess Alicia but changed it... Hidden pun?) and she was offered by an unkown force to become the evil fiends servant of darkness by killing many people as she can with the gift he grants her. The whole game is about death and the best ways of punishment amongst those who threaten you. When my friend first told me about this game he gave very vague details abvagueout how the battle system works. From what I first understood I figure you just walk around putting traps as you go along and once someone steps on the trap.. Boom! But this game actually takes more strategy then that, you not only need to set the traps but you have to run around inside the walls of the manor luring the people towards your traps.


You get to choose 3 types of traps that can be triggered on the playing field but you can pause the screen and choose a different variety if needed. The manor is your entire playing field, but some rooms are locked and need to be unlocked after certain amount of points are needed to buy the key. My favorite room would have to be the Torture Room and in the castle The War Room. Both have a lot of "Toys" to your disposal.
There is three types of traps you can equipped for battle floor, wall, and ceiling traps. Once you get so many points from killing people you get to create different types of traps for different situations. Some traps can even help activate hidden traps that are hidden in the area such as the cannon (Which I activate accidentally) in the War Room.
Once a soldier appears they will come through a door and introduce themselves with a war cry. Each of them is random as they come. Then once again when you defeat the soldier they will give out their last words. The first soldier you kill at the beginning has to be the saddest.
I have to admit on one thing I love the outfits in it all of them are different and unique, another thing that I like but can be fusterating at times is the Japanese dialog. They don't dub this game only put subtitles at the bottom. Just like a lot of games these days Trapt has multiple endings which I noticed when you are given choices throughout.

I believe I am almost done the game but I am not that sure. Hopefully I am close to being done I really want to know what happens.

Stalkers

In quite a few horror games there tends to be "Stalkers" that roam the areas you roam an chase you sometimes never leaving you long enough for a breather. Stalker type monsters first appeared for me in the Clock Tower series such as Scissorman and Sledgehammer. Then in Silent Hill 2 with Pyramid Head, and Resident Evil with Mr. X and Nemesis.
I find the game more appealing knowing there is no safe place to rest, keeping moving staying on your feet and never look back. It's these kinds of emotions that cause you to panic at times and making it hard to think properly and even harder to do actions knowing someone is standing right there ready to kill you.

In most of the games I named you are given choices such as Resident Evil 3 where you can hide, run or be really destructive with your opponent. Such as the beginning in front of Raccoon City Police Station where you are given a choice either to run inside or fight. Choosing to run inside is the safest bet seeing how you just saw one of your comrade die in a painful way from Nemesis's harsh tentacle whip. But to stay and fight would lead to your death unless you are either quite skilled with in the games department or quite skilled in the cheats.

In a lot of other games though such as Clock Tower giving the option to fight is not available to the very end in some cases. Best thing to do is run and hide hoping they wont see you and not to make too much noise so they can hear you (I learned that the hard way in Clock Tower 3.)

Stalkers are an excellent way to keep you on your feet in horror games giving you panic and fear is what horror games are about. Sadly though you don't see much of them anymore hopefully when knew horror games come out on Wii, PS3, and 360 it will be just as frightful as the older games and series.

It's Wonderland

The Inside look of Alice.


I grew up watching such movies as Alice in Wonderland. With so many things that are now used to describe life with this story. Such as The Matrix it isn't too hard to imagine that someone like American McGee would make a twisted version of his own.

When I first played this game I wasn't good at video games on PC, and I wasn't use to the WASD control pad so I found playing the game very hard. Sadly though my flaky sister borrowed it and I never seen it in 3 years. I finally got it back just recently but I was no longer in high school where having a video game was considered a blessing. Now I don't have time with all the other games I have and the little room I have on my PC (Need to clean my computer of files.) I will someday return to twisted Wonderland to give it one more shot. Hopefully around Halloween so it has a better feel for the games atmosphere.



My characters name on the other hand ALICExia isn't from this game or any relations to the game. It is my middle name and my great grandmothers name that I was named after. I treasure this middle name as much as the memories of my great grandmother so I use this name a lot throughout fantasy games or video games for that matter that would allow a long name like Alicexia (Curse you Pokemon Pearl!).

Old McDonald Had A Farm

This ain't no Harvest Moon, this is a game you are the evil industrial company McDonald's. Your goal is to gain as much profit as possible while trying to keep the protesters and the Mad Cow Disease away. There isn't much to say about this game. It has it's moments where you can't help but laugh at some of the drawings, and you can kind of figure this game is made by some kind of Anti-Ronald as well as other things when I looked on their main page.

In the game you have 4 areas you need to take care of to gain profit.


The Farmlands.

The Feed Lot.

The Fast Food Restaurant.

And The McDonald's Head Quarters.

There's always ways to boost sales like bribing politicians and Health Boards, as well cheap labor and Lies!




Enemies are everyone! Please everyone so you don't get sued and go bankrupt.






Game Overs. Scary Ronald.


The main site's explanation for this game as well as other comes as quoted.
"Molleindustria aims to reappropriate video games as a popular form of mass communication. Our objective is to investigate the persuasive potentials of the medium by subverting mainstream video gaming clichè. Anyway you can just play this stuff without thinking too much about it."
-http://www.molleindustria.org/en/home