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A recent but fun genre on the scene is
survival horror, where players try to survive games that attempt to create
terrifying scenes and play with their emotions. For the most part, these
have focused on the "scary monster" variety; Resident Evil and
Dino Crisis were two of the big names.
In their value software line, Dreamcatcher
have given us a new variant on the genre; instead of re-creating monster
movies, they've gone for high school horror flicks, creating what's a
decently interesting game with its own quirks and twists.
They also did something relatively
revolutionary for survival horror games, putting in a two-player mode that
is superficially similar to Resident Evil 0's two-character mode, but which
relies on two humans for control rather than a terminally stupid AI.
Does it work? Actually, the game's quite
enjoyable and fun, especially in the dead of night with all the lights
turned off. |