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I find that it is nearly impossible for me to be scared by games anymore, and these console games cannot hope to get me creeped out...
But there is one game that scared the -blam!- out of me. System Shock 2, an old PC game made by the same designer who made Deus Ex (the original). Your gun can jam in the middle of a fight, and if you make the slightest noise, or are detected Mutant Hybrids and the corrupt security robots and a number of other horrors will come at you. Forget balance or gameplay, this is about survival, and this game takes brains. There are no "find the key" or "look at this picture for several hours" puzzles; if it would work in real life, chances are it will work in SS2. This kind of survival gameplay (actually based on survival, unlike so-called "Survival-Horror" games) combined with a very creepy atmosphere is what made SS2 the only game to scare me. Of course, the RPG-like chararcter trait development, immersive first-person perspective, and complex plot also help make this game well worth picking up... If you can find it, it should be really cheap bargain bin stuff. If you can't, well, there's always BitTorrent.
[Edited on 1/31/2005 12:51:52 PM]