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Top 5 Survival Horror Games

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A Countdown of The Top 5 Survival

Horror Game Series

By: Ashley Brown

Here are your top 5 all time survival horror game series:

5 F.E.A.R It takes the first person shooter and puts them into a survival horror game.The first F.E.A.R game has you playing as a protagonist named simply “Point Man“ as part of a Recon team called “First Encounter Assault Recon“ who“s main objective throughout this game is to apprehend a murderous can-nibal named Paxton Fettel. While on your mission, you will have many encounters with a mysterious ghostly little girl named Alma who seems to stalk you wherever you go.

4 Penumbra

The series is full of an atmo-sphere of horror, and the set-ting is as much a character as the unfortunate man whom you play. You will spend half the time being terrified of nothing and the music, sound and envi-ronments will have you jump-ing at empty dark corners, flickering lights and your own paranoid imagination. There is danger, but the game knows it doesn“t have to do much or anything at all to keep you on your toes. It knows you“ll scare yourself stupid so long as it hangs its Sword of Damocles over your head.

3 Resident Evil In Raccoon City, Resident Evil

is a definitely a classic surviv-al horror game with different types of monsters, creatures and of zombies. Resident Evil is definitely one of the games that has parented the horror genre, making it what it is today.

It all started with changing how the voice acting was done. Most games in general weren“t as focused on making the voices any-thing special but when Res-ident Evil came around they realized how impactful really great voice acting (that was also really well written) can make or break a game. It also brought a new and different take on how the atmosphere was being handled, and still managed to have a great sto-ry. In a survival horror game with amazing voice acting, at-mosphere, and and interesting story it has definitely made it one of the most successful and bone chilling horror game series.

2 Amnesia

Amnesia is generally consid-ered to be on of the scariest games that have come out more recently and it giving some old classics a run for their money. Yet when looking at these claims one has to ask what exactly did Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and Amnesia: Machine Pigs do to make the game so scary?

Amnesia takes puts you into a atmosphere that makes you terrified of the dark, and nev-er really seeing the monsters that you after you as you are slowly losing yourself makes the get under your skin.

1 Silent HillSilent Hill has rightful-ly earned the title the best survival horror game series because of 5 ingredients that make the most insane and nightmare inducing games.

1.The Everyday Character In every Silent Hill you play as a normal everyday person, who just seems to be having the worst day possible. Makes you feel like it could happening to you!

2.Less Ammo, More Running A big mistakes that horror games is that they don“t let the monsters be scary. If you have a big gun nothing is scary right? Not in Silent Hill! Running from monsters (into dead end after dead end) is a vital tactic in any Silent Hill, to not only conserve your ammo but also because some monsters are too scary (any annoying) that you just don't know what else to do to but run.

3.Sound, visuals, and Story work in Tan-dem to scare the liv-ing !?#5 out of you. Silent Hill has the perfect blend of sound visual and mindboggling stories that they can shake you down to your core.

4.J-Horror Themes Coming from the amazing and mind of Keiichiro Toyama, Silent Hill has a lot of Japanese Horror influences, which is definitely a refreshing take to most horror games.

5.The FOG The Fog, in this series, almost feel like the fog one of the best elements in the game because all it does it add to the world of Silent Hill. Most games try to achieve this level of balance of the visual elements but no one does it as perfectly as Silent Hill.