The Rise of the Survival Horror Genre

Without a doubt, Japan has played a pivotal role in shaping the “survival horror” in the gaming industry. It supplied and continues to supply, as a rule, the best representatives of this direction. As soon as Resident Evil entered the scene in 1996, many other genres began to borrow various elements from it, and it …

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Shinji Mikami and his thirty years of fear

Immediately after the April release of Resident Evil 3, it became known that Capcom was developing a remake of the fourth part of the series, the company’s most successful game. At the same time, despite the success of all past remakes, many players spoke out against the restart of Resident Evil 4, which the original …

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Do not touch the classics or failed restarts of video game lines

The relaunch of God of War was successful, and some even consider the game to be the best representative of the series. Such a scenario can be considered the exception rather than the rule. Most often, instead of breathing new life into it, reboots finally bury the series, leaving an unpleasant aftertaste. Sometimes the developers, …

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Resident Evil Village review. Attraction of horror

Resident Evil Village Developer Capcom Publisher Capcom Official site residentevil.com release date May 7, 2021 Genre Survival horror, FPS After two remakes in the Resident Evil series at once, Capcom released a sequel to the seventh part and called it Village. It was clear from the trailers, and the developers did not deny that …

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Fateful decisions of video game developers

When Neil Druckmann decided to change part of the plot and ending of The Last of Us, he knew that he was taking a serious risk. Many employees of Naught Dog itself considered this move unreasonable, but in the end, the non-standard ending, on the contrary, was liked by the players. Situations like this are …

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The Evil Within 2. Nightmare City

The Evil Within 2 Developer Tango Gameworks Publisher Bethesda Softworks Official site theevilwithin2.bethesda.net Localizer Bethesda Softworks release date October 2017 Genre Survival horror, action Horror games have recently gone in the direction of chamber stories about a hero with a shattered psyche inside a certain plot corridor. Even the Resident Evil series in the seventh …

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The history of the origin of the Survival Horror genre

2017 turned out to be very rich in horror. In addition to the long-awaited Resident Evil 7 and Outlast 2, Friday the 13th: The Game was released on May 26th. And that’s not counting budding Kickstarter projects like Visage and Ghost Theory. It’s time to remember the history of the origin of the genre and …

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Who is Tom Clancy or video games inspired by books

It’s safe to say that most gamers are aware that series like The Witcher, Metro, and STALKER were inspired by literary works. In fact, there are many more such examples in the industry than it might seem at first glance. Below we will talk about some of them. Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six (1998) Seeing the prefix …

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Ph’nglui mglv’nafh Ktulhu

The Sinking City Developer Frogwares Publisher Bigben Interactive Official site thesinkingcity.com release date June 27, 2019 Genre Adventure, Horror, Survival, Action, RPG On June 27, 2019, the Ukrainian studio Frogwares released The Sinking City, a noir horror detective with elements of survival and RPG in the open world. The developers of the adventure series about …

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Review of Daymare 1998. Non-scary horror

Daymare 1998 Developer Invader Studios Publisher Destructive Creations, All in! Games Official site daymarethegame.com release date September 17, 2019 Genre Survival horror On September 17, 2019, the Italian studio Invader Games released the horror action game Daymare 1998. The project, which began as an unofficial fan remake of Resident Evil 2, became a full-fledged but …

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