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Awesome Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: January 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is awesome. Don't listen to the Rez Evil/Silent Hill 2 fans. This game evolves the survival horror genre. MAtter of fact it isn't even survival horror its action horror.

The controls are awesome, pretty much exactly like Halo. I really like the fact you can go into 1st person if you want.

The graphics are good but its the sense of environment that really works in this game. THe story seems really cool to.

The main character is really tough and animates really well.

The creatue design is awesome. I heard something about the guy from Terminator designing the creatures. I dont know who designed them but they were sick in the head.

Overall this is going to be a GREAT game. Solid action, good story.

This game rocks!!! This is not a survival horror game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am sick of people comparing this to Silent Hill 3 or Res Evil. It is totally different. It is more like a horror Half Life or Max Payne than these games. The controls are identical to Halo creating an incredible creepy sense of immersion that you dont get in traditional survival horror games.

The action is awesome and some and the creatures are fast and most importantly NOT ZOMBIES. It great to see a developer take risks on new creative creatures.

This game is simply one of the best games on the PS2 ever!

Incredible Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I played this game at E3 and it kicks ...! It was very immersive. Guys breaking through windows, getting sucked up through vents all while I was playing.

The graphics do a good job of conveying the creepy feel of a prison.

The controls are great - very similar to Halo or Max Payne.

This is definately a shooter NOT a survival horror game. If you want lots of puzzle you should look else where (at least from what I saw at E3 there was only 1 puzzle in the first level).

I have been following this game ever since I saw it and I will have to say I think its improved a ton. It about time somebody put American game style on a typically Japanese genre.

a disturbing action hit

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

the suffereing is based on a man by the name of Torque, who has jus been convicted of killing boht his wife and child. As he enters his cell block, he briefly meets his fellow inmates, before soemthing goes terribly wrong. The lights go out, and a horrific clicking noise fills the cells, followed by blood curdled screams, and then just plain blood, and now the action starts.

The suffereing really isn't one genre for sure, it's several. At one moment it takes the form of a great sction shooter, then the ambience takes over and puts you in mind of a survival horror title. Then you find out you can switch to first person shooter, and it becomes an FPS! That really is the charm of the suffering, its not one thing its many. Its packed with extras, action, and just plain ol' shooting fun.

As for the controls, they are what is to be expected from an action title, with primary use of the analog sticks and shoulder buttons. I did, however, find that doing a 180 degree turn was somewhat difficult, and often resulted in losing some health. When the game changes to an FPS, the transition is done so very well, with just one tap of the buton, you have changed your action title into a first person shooter, a great innovation that would be a welcome addition to many games these days.

The storyline is excellent since its outcome heavily relies on what you as player do. If your the type that loves to kill to get a laugh ina video game, then don't count on getting the good ending. This game has several situation in which you have the chance to help someone. Whether you help that person or not is up to you, but just keep in mind that whether you are good or bad will ultimately decide in the end whether you killed you wife and son or not!

The greatest part of this game that sets it apart from many others is the great ambience. The sound is great (especially if you have your system hooked up through a set of stereo speakers.) The graphics are amazong, and add that much more to the eerie setting.

In conclusion, the suffering is a very wel thought out game, but is a bit on the simple side. I am a fan of all survival horror genres, Resident evil, Silent hill, Fatal frame, it doesn't matter. While this game follows the framework of a survival horror game in no way shape or form, itstill manages to get that scare factor across quite well. If you feel like a change from the usual survival horror action, but still want to be scared in the same way, rent it, believe me thats all the time you'll need to beat it.

"The Suffering" is scary, gory, disturbing, and a lot of FUN

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 06, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I own about 30 PS2 games so far, and this is only one of about five of them that I've actually played all the way through to the end. This is a GREAT game!

The graphics are great! The voice-acting is superb and very realistic! The music and sound effects are also great and add to the eerie, disturbing, gritty, frightening, and desolate atmosphere that permeates this game.

One thing I didn't like was that the Final Boss Battle lacked "information" on how you were supposed to kill it. I had to go online to find out how to kill him, which was 100% totally different from how I thought it had to be done.

There were some puzzles, but they weren't of a Myst-like difficulty. Most involved moving boxes and crates, or turning valves on or off.

The monsters in the game were totally spooky. Great designs! They really looked great graphically, and were really scary!

There was plenty of ammo and health drinks scattered throughout the game, so running out of firepower or dying from injuries seldom occurred. In fact, there may have been TOO MUCH ammo laying around to pick up -- I didn't use 2/3 of what was available.

The map feature is nice, but I didn't need to refer to the maps at all for help in getting through the game. Besides, the maps weren't too helpful because they didn't show what locked doors you had already tried or what areas you had already explored, etc.. Not a big deal, but the maps are definitely not as helpful as the maps are in the Resident Evil and Silent Hill games. So I didn't use the maps at all in this game.

The high level of detail that went into designing this game is just incredible. It is well worth adding to your collection if you liked games such as Silent Hill and Resident Evil.

Pretty Solid fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

The Suffering is another action game by Midway. It has great gameplay, good action and some really nice music but overall the game is just average. The Suffering has some really awesome game elements and some really creepy atmosphere. The games story is simple. You're sent to death row for a crime may have or may have not done and do not remember any of it except that you're heading to death row. Soon the character "makes some friends" but sadly they all get slaughterd by these unknown beings. To make matters worse once you are free from your cell cops, prison mates are getting slaughterd and torn apart by these things that you still have no clear are. Now the tables have turned and you must escape this prison and find the truth of what happend to your wife and kids. The game is great and has a great storyline too.

The game features some really cool weapons that you get through advancing in the game on your journey to find out what really happend to your wife and kids, you meet up with some prison gaurds and inmates. This is what is really cool about it. You have the choice on helping them out, leaving them there to die, OR killing them which will trigger what ending in the game you get. There are 3 endings in the game what the choices you make are the consiquences you get which triggers what ending you get. The game is chuck full of monsters and cool bosses which will give you hints on about you and your past. The game also features a meter inwhich all the things you inflict will cause the meter to go up and you can trigger a sequence in which you transform into a demon monster and you can slash and tear anything that gets in your way in a limited amount of time. It really doesn't do much for you I just killed anything that got in my way with my shotgun.

The Suffering has something that I really loved about this game...Creepy atmosphere. The game had some really awesome game atmosphere and the very first level in the prison is a perfect example. The game has a perfect creepy atmosphere and a really great music score. The game is really great on that. The game is also very, very, very Mature. It has extreame profanity and lot and lots of extreame gory violence. One part in which you see a man whith nothing but his stomach left but the rest of his body is torn off and his just sqealing like dead fishes..it's really disturbing and if you shoot him and put him out of his misery you acctually earn a good Deed point!..Very disturbing sequence also..

Good
-Great Visuals
-superb atmosphere
-good storyline
-Very creepy score..

Bad
-the game is too short
-some levels look too identical which really ruins the mood of the game
-the game doesn't have much of a side story and that is pretty lame
-It seemed kind of like a SH rip off but still is a great game..

The Ugly
-get the good ending....Poor Torque

Overall this game is one of Midways Finest yet but it fails at all of things that midway could have attempted to fix but didn't. Other then that the game has a great story, Fine Controlls, Great gameplay with lots of fast paced action and some cool atmospheric gameplay with lots of monsters....Overall with all of its pros and cons I gotta give this a

3.9 out of 5 stars....

Good Game overall..

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good but not as good as silent hill

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: July 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I think this game was decent. I liked how Midway decided to throw an action element into a horror game. I loved how this game truely captured what life was like in a maximum security prison. But it can't even compare to Silent Hill games. That's just my opinion if you want a real survival horror game, check out Silent Hill 2. That game will not only scare the crap outta you, it will haunt your dreams for weeks after you beat it just cause the storyline and everything about it is so fricken disturbing, much more so then the suffering. I don't really recommend Silent Hill 3 unless you have played Silent Hill 1. So play Silent Hill 1 first. Then SH3. SH2 has a stand alone plot that has nothing to do with the rest of the series so thats a great place to start. And no im not bashing the suffering with this review.. im just saying that SH2 would be a better pick if you are looking for a truely disturbing game that will change your life. This game made me crack up laughing especially at the beginning cause of all the F-Bombs that were being dropped. Thats not disturbing, thats just funny. Belongs in a GTA game. Anyways, go ahead and buy this game if you are looking for an action game, cause SH games don't have that much action. Just a lot more scary then this.
P.S. i saw some guy say that Silent Hill was worse then resident evil... that is a lie!!

Really Surprising!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I wasn't expecting to like 'The Suffering' at all, seeing as how, to me, Survival Horror is defined by the Silent Hill and Fatal Frame series of games. Happily, 'The Suffering' is like a merry blend of the best bits of the atmosphere of those games with a free and easy (albeit flawed) control system that those games lack.

The closest way I have of describing it is if you took 'Tomb Raider' and added the chills and spills of 'Resident Evil', and threw in a dash of the melancholia and psycho-horror of the Silent Hill series.

Playing Torque, a man convicted of murdering his family, the action begins fairly slowly, and culminates in your hopeful escape from Abbot Penitentiary on Carnate Island. Along the way you meet some allies, slay some foes and enjoy some really genuinely scary moments.

The actual game itself isn't so hot, in terms of graphics and playability. It's fairly average in both of these departments: textures and models are uncomplicated and basic (although the frame rate is good, and the backdrops stylish and eerie) and the control system, though somewhat looser than, say, Resident Evil, lacks the precision and speed of games like Tomb Raider and Metal Gear Solid. However, neither of these elements are truly bad; rather not utilised fully - but it's very frustrating sometimes to feel like you're hacking and slashing and winning due to sheer fluke.

That said, the game creates excellent standards of atmosphere, thanks in no small part to a very adult script and some excellent, edge-of-your-seat shocks and vignettes. The Evil Doctor and Torque's flashbacks to when his family were murdered are really nice touches, and I defy even the most hardened Survival Horror Completist not to jump when some of the more speedy creatures make an entrance.

The Prison setting, too, lends much atmosphere to the game, and Midway have included a really cool documentary on Haunted Prisons to go with the game, giving us a better sense of why an abandoned prison ought to terrify us. The length of the game is a real value-for-money thing, it's far longer than many of its contemporaries and all the better because of it.

I must give a special mention to the sound: The voice acting and sound effects are among the best I have ever heard in a videogame, and coupled with a fast-paced environment and some real thought on the part of the game developers as to how we should be scared, I have to say that 'The Suffering' is a very solid, thoroughly entertaining title that, in the wake of 'Siren' and 'Fatal Frame 2', will certainly tide us over until 'Silent Hill 4' deigns to grace us with its presence.

To put it simply, it's not a classic example of the power of Survival Horror, but it's an excellent title, all the same. If you can put up with some dodgy combat and slightly mundane graphics, there's a real treat in store for you with 'The Suffering'.

Excellent.

Why get bored with this game?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: March 20, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Sorry, I know everyone has their own opionions and that, but I've played every survival horror game their is, and they were all generally boring. What's important in this game is the story. Between the clues you collect and killing the monsters, you learn more of the story. I thought the story for each section had been great, something you don't normally see in video games but will appreciate if you have your average morbid book reading tendencies. To me, it just gets better as it goes along. Maybe I just don't care about dazzling graphics and movie length jump scenes.
PS, the 'story' in the 45-minute Max Payne 2 was distilled pulp, very derrivitive, with pretty graphics. But then again, I'm a morbid person.

Demo Rocks!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: January 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just played the demo on OXM and I will have to say this is one of the coolest, creepiest games I have ever played.

The demo starts with Torq being led into death row. There is a whole lot of "beeping" the dialog so I cant wait to get the real version to see what it says. The dialog seems to fit with the prison setting and is very well done.

Once in the prison all hell breaks loose, literally. All of these weird creatures start appearing, killing everything in sight. Its awesome!

I dont want to give too much away I am preordering this game right now

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