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LOVED IT!!! The Best Game on PS2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 08, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I Loved this game! Awesome story line,graphics,everything is sweet!!! The gameplay is dead-on,and the action never ends.If i had to be stranded on an island,and get to take only 1 game with me,it would be this one! (a toss-up between this,and SanAndreas! lol)
How is the Suffering 2? I have not yet played it,and heard allot of mixed reviews about it.

Sick, Twisted, and Gory.. I Love it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Wow, the atmosphere of this game alone is enough to warrent a paragraph about the "mood" of this great Game! I have looked for something like this for a Very long time. (thought I had found it with Rockstar's Manhunt or Manhunt 2 due out 7/30/07) its truly amazing! you start off in a prison cell, and after a few minutes you realize, something is horribly wrong! all the other inmates have vanished and theres blood everywhere. you must explore and be prepared to jump (there is a part that got me even better then RE #1 did with the "dogs through the windows" scene) this is a 3rd person adventure type game with tons of shooting and puzzle solving. Tons of killing, blood and gore! it (aside from the gore) really gives you the "feel" of being in prison and not a wink of help in sight. the sense of desperation only grows throughout the game. and the "creatures" are inspired by their varied criminal acts! right down to "bodily fluids" pooling beneath hanging or fallen bodies! this game is brilliant. its really rare a game with this much violence and gore (till you hurl!) turns out so well when so many turn out so poorly. Buy this Now while you still can but I would avoide the sequal as it has many bugs that will freeze the game up. The Suffering is almost art in its sickness! part 2 however is graphicly as pleasing with better deaths etc but considering you will get 50% to 75% through it then have it perma freeze ugh. Cant say Anything bad about this title though. its simply perfect!

Graphics: 4 1/2 stars nothing Uber ground breaking but some of the "mood" graphics work really well hence the xtra point and a half.

Sound: 5 Stars! freaky and Superb! you will have nightmares! lol.

Fun Factor: 5 Star Swetness. Kill aha!

overall: 5 stars for a) sickest game and B) most fun sick game!

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The Suffering

The greatest thing ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Ok i have noticed most people arent liking my reviews of things so hopefully i can better myself with this one. Alright for starters the main characters name is torque and he has been accused of murdering his family and is in the Abbot state penitentary on Carnate island. Ok so thats out of the way. Now the gameplay.It is incredible this is the greatest thing ever controlling torque is easy and fun the story is pretty good and the characters are great. also check out resident evil,silent hill, and the odd one of the bunch metal gear solid

The Ideal Horror Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 23, 2005
Author: Amazon User

After I finished playing this game, i can honestly say it was one of the few games i've played that was truly scary. It has all of the perfect elements of a good horror game. A big part of the gameplay is just walking around the prison and hearing all the terrifying screams of other inmates and guards being killed off. The Suffering makes you use your imagination, rather than having endless monsters run right up to you, whitch i think is a must for any horror game. You'll turn corners and see a body being pulled up into a ventilation shaft by something you see only a glimpse of, stuff like that.

Once you get a ways into the game, it basically reverts to a regular third person shooter for the most part. You also have the option to make your character, who calls himself "Torque" into a good guy, or bad guy based on several decisions you make throughout the game. I think what really makes this game is the environment. While in the prison, the light are always on the verge of going out, and sometimes do, leaving you to make do with either your flashlight, or a low supply of flares. When this happens, the game is at it's best. This game is rated "M" for a reason, there is a ton of blood and gore, some language, and a plot that involes the brutal murder of his family. Anyone looking for a dark, twisted game that is bound to scare the hell out of you at least a couple of times, then this game is for you.

best horror game made

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 12
Date: July 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i loved this game! the grafics were great also, and it was very frightening. iam definately gunna buy the 2nd 1!

Come play with us Torque...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 5
Date: May 22, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is very different to all the other horror games out there. This is because you can choose your own path - evil, good or neutral. I'm always evil lol, (he is mutating in mine lol with is so cool)

Torque isn't that bad either, he's a bishonen in his own way and the great thing is, in the 2nd game (The Suffering Ties that Bind) it will continue compared to which path you chose in the first one - evil, good or neutral.

The game uses both analog sticks to control his movement (so those of you hate that kind of control, you can't change it so sorry) and it uses most of the buttons to pull off different moves. He even has a transformation to make him the ultimate killing machine.

Get this game if you love blood cos shooting enemies will cause Torque to get covered it in and slowly dry off.

Its fantastic. I can't wait for 2.

Time to raise hell and make someone else suffer...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: April 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Suffering is a game that would fall into the rather successful niche created by games like the Resident Evil and Fatal Frame series, but with one sick little twist. This game takes psychological horror gaming to a sick and rather twisted new level.

In the game you play as Torque, who has just been sent to Carnate Prison, one of the worst penitentaries in the world. Torque was sent there for the brutal murder of his wife and two children but has absolutely no memory of the crime. On the day Torque arrives at Carnate, an earthquake occurs that seemingly has opened the door to a hellish gateway that unleashes demonic creatures based on the various methods that were used to kill the prisoners of Carnate. Your task: kill whatever gets in your way (human, creature or otherwise) and learn the awful truth of Carnate while escaping the hellhole, figuring out why you have a mysterious ability to transform into a monster (more on that later), and learning if you really WERE responsible for your family's deaths.

Throughout the game you will encounter creatures that represent the various ways of dying in and/or escaping from prison, including creatures with blades for hands and feet (knife/shiv attack), beasts with needles in their backs and eyes (lethal injection) or guns on their backs (firing squad), creatures with half a body that drop from the ceiling with nooses around their neck (hanging), creatures that burrow underground (digging out) and one boss that has a particular affinity for-and is made nearly entirely of-poison gas (gas chamber).

SO how are you going to fight them? Luckily for you you will run into a nice little assortment of weapons to use like a shiv, shotguns, Tommy gun (machine gun used by gangsters in the 1930s), revolvers, a dual revolver set, grenades, TNT, Molotov cocktails, and more. But what if you're in a bit of a jam and your weapon's not helping?

Well you have a little something that is called an Insanity Meter that can help. For each monster that you kill your meter will grow. If you just happen to kill a lot of mosnters in any area, Torque and his weapon will be virtually splattered with blood from the attack. When the meter is flashing, press one button and Torque transforms into a monster that can tear through enemies and shake things up if you need to. Keep in mind that you will have to play in certain ways and do certain things to get one of the game's 3 possible endings.

This game is definitely not for kids since there is a lot of bloody violence, seriously disturbing imagery and a lot of swearing. The graphics are pretty good, even if it is a dark and slightly moody atmosphere for the game. But another fun aspect of the game is that the shooting allows you to switch at random from third-person (which you are in most of the game) to first-person at the touch of a button. Additionally as I was playing the game I couldn't help of think of a rather obvious pun while playing...(Hell in Carnate/Hell Incarnate)

All in all, this is a game that a lot of gamers slept on initially, but now that its available for $20 this is a good time if you're not too happy with how Resident Evil: Outbreak was (I know I wasn't) and have your reservations on Resident Evil: Outbreak File #2. So get set to (literally) raise a little hell and unleash The Suffering...

not to bad

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: April 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is not that bad but it is long and sorta boring. All u do is fight stupid critters. The game is more of a learning game of the german p.o.w.s. if u are looking for a blood guts game this is it the cuts seens are exquisite, u must play this game in the dark if u have the coneges

Gruesome Monster-slaying fun.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 11 / 13
Date: January 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I bought The Suffering while waiting for something I really wanted to come out, but I was pleasantly surprised at the amount of effort and detail that has gone into this game. Be warned though, it's dark and horrific, and the game seems to really revel in showing all the gruesome ways people can be sliced up, mutilated and tortured. You play Torque, a man imprisoned in one of the harshest prsions ever built, and it's up to you to make sense of what is happening when staff and inmates alike start getting mowed down by bloodthirsty supernatural monsters which appear seemingly from nowhere. The story hits the ground running in the first few minutes of play, when your character suddenly finds his cell door open and the prison in total chaos. Once out of your cell, it's a matter of making your way through the prison, and outside, hoprfully to freedom.

The thing that struck me while playing was the attention to detail present in the locations. Many of the rooms have working telephones, light switches, taps, lockers etc, and even though interacting with them sometimes proves to have no effect (flushing the toilet for example!) it's a great and realistic addition to the game world. Of course many of these things are important to the action, such as unlocking doors or finding supplies, so it pays to explore just what you can do in every new location. A word of warning also, be alert or else some parts of the game will pass you by. Some pathways and rooms containing supplies and even weapons can be completely bypassed if you are not thorough in exploring, so it pays to be cautious. This, of course, is only possible once you have cleared any areas completely of marauding monsters, and it's here that the meat of the game lies.

The creatures invading the prison are pretty gruesome and relentless in their attempts to kill you. Some very Silent Hill-esque creatures inhabit this world, including agile metallic creatures with blades instead of arms and legs that just love to leap at you from the ceiling, and crawling mutants who like to pull loaded hypodermic syringes out of their skin and throw them at you like darts. Early on in the game you will be hard pushed to come through fights unscathed, so it's a blessing that healing supplies are scattered liberally throughout each stage. However, just when you find the best (in my opinion ) firearm - the shotgun - and start cackling with joy as one or two close-range blasts send the creatures flying in a hail of body parts, the game ups the challenge and starts sending wave after wave of critters at you, some of which respawn endlessly. It sounds unfair, but it's not really, as in these cases the game is either telling you to get the hell out of there, or find a way to plug up the seemingly endless stream from it's source.
In several ways, the game reminds me a lot of the similar PS2 adventure "Ghosthunter", in that you have to run around whilst manually aiming, and things seem to be far more capable of dashing around the screen than you are. But, in a great additional aspect, you can also switch to first person view at any time, and still run around, attack and jump, etc. So that's almost two games in one, if you prefer to play it that way. Plus the weapons are a lot of fun...when I found the fire axe it was definitely playtime, heh heh...

As for the plot, it's very minimal, with escaping alive being about the only important issue here. There is a sub-plot involving Torque's memory of his wife and children and what has happened to them and him leading up to to the current situation, but it's very much a peripheral issue to the main action of the game. I found Torque's constant flashbacks and visions to be rather pointless after a while, as the script doesn't give Torque any personality whatsoever (he never speaks or changes his expression during the entire game), so it's impossible to feel any sympathy or even tell what emotions he's supposed to be experiencing!

The gameplay improves further once Torque gets outside of the actual prison, as the repetition of cells and offices gives way to a variety of forests, roads, rivers and cliffs, and the freedom to explore is pretty impressive (or maybe I should say that the disguising of the restraints the game uses to stop you going where it doesn't want you to go is pretty impressive!). Towards the end of the game, you'll also make it to a delapidated asylum/residence, a shoreline complete with shipwreck, and a clifftop lighthouse, and the graphics of these locations is wonderful, well worth waiting for.

So I recommend this game. It's challenging, although some of the killing can be avoided if you just want to run past everything. Still want more? Well, actions such as your willingness to help other survivors (even when they might be actively hostile towards you) will change the ending you receive, or open up extra goodies if you keep certain NPC's alive long enough - pretty tough to do in some cases. And there are several situations featuring puzzles and traps to test your problem-solving skills. There's also an "insanity" meter which, when full, allows Torque to transform into a super-strong monster himself and dish out insane damage....to find out how and why, you'll have to play the game. It's definitely worth a look

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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