VideoGame Nightmare house is bloody scarry
Nightmare House is somewhat ambitious, it contatins new models for existing things, voices for origional characters and complex and frightening levels.
It works. SPOILERS
It does what it does well and when you're slowly walking along a hallway in a zombie leeps out at you and suddenly Emily appears can shock you to your core, of particular mention are the maneequins which scarred the shit out of me. It's not so much the combat and the enemies that makes it frightening, it the lack thereof, walking down a halway in dim lighting or no lighting with the main source of light being a flashlight knowing that at any moment a zombie could leap out at you at any moment only serves to underline the horror and the total aloneness you feel. I feel the conclusion could have been made just a little longer but it's still a good atmosphere wondering when Romero's going to get you. The ending for me was just a little bit too funny, but overall good to play, my one overriding thought was that we could have done with that game breaking shotgun earlier but a well. Overall exelent and well worth the download.
VideoGame Holy crap
This is easily one of the most ambitious horror mods I've seen for Half-Life 2, and the sequel is a massive improvement. While the first one was plenty of jump scares in a generic haunted house, Nightmare House 2 turns it into a masterpiece. An actual storyline, for one, with wonderful voice acting and the most badass AI allies any game has ever seen. But the scares are what make it worthwhile. Moving away from jump scares and zombies smashing through doors, it makes the player paranoid of every room. Shots of Emily watching through a window, paths changing every time you turn (in one memorable session, making the player feel like they're losing their mind), effects that push the Source engine's capabilities to realms rarely or never seen before, and some of the most genuinely creepy shit I've ever seen. This is a must for any horror fan.