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BUGS galore; tedious ending. MIDWAY PLEASE PLAY TEST YOUR GAMES PLEASE!!!!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you can ignore the two big problems I will list next, the following review applies:
Decent if formulaic sequel to a good shooter/horror game. Doesn't have the "creep" factor of the original but that is a consequence of all sequels. New human enemies are an interesting change. Combat is still fun :)

THE TWO BIG PROBLEMS:
1. This game is BUGGY. FAR FAR too buggy for any console game (or indeed any PC game from a reputable developer/publisher). I'm sorry to say that you must expect 10-20 outright FREEZES in the course of game play. You will have to reset/power off your console to restart. Dual-saves are a MUST as you may lose your entire progress!!
2. The ending wasn't challenging.. it was TEDIOUS. Big difference there. Only one way it can be done; and it requires quite a lot of tedious repetition.

In summation.. this could have been a decent retread to a GOOD original.. but it is painfully obvious that it wasn't playtested properly. Buy only if you like paying to beta-test a half-finished product.

Save your money. Borrow a friends or rent.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I have three of "Ties that bind" now,in hopes of finding one that will play through, and have never gotten past the ladder in the prison due to glitches and lockups. I have compleatly given up now which is sad because the game is so much Fun! I loved this one as much as the original until the glitches kicked in. I really wanted to give this game a top rating in hopes to get a Suffering 3, but as they say in the love stories,"I have been hurt one to many times now".

stuck...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was, and still am a huge fan of suffering. I just wish my ties that bind game (ps2) would stop freezing up at the end of certain battles. Twice now I have had to start over at my last save to try to continue in the game. I don't have any cheats activated, so I'm not sure what's up?? I did read a few other reviews with the same problem...any solutions, besides starting all over?...I'm about half way through the game.

Pretty good game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Cool graphics with some neat looking monsters. Story line wasnt the greatest, but it might just be me...plus, I didnt play the first game in the series. Maybe that would have made the story line more interesting and understandable. Otherwise, the game gave me a reasonable amount of play time to conclude it and it was fun. Even scared me a couple times! Good game for $15 or less.

this game sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 38
Date: October 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game is weird
it does not give me my jolleys
all u do is kill stupid looking monsters
and it is the same as the first
and it is to easy
i dont recamend this to anyone
this game blows the big pickle

Looks good so far.......

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 19
Date: September 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Obviously, I haven't played this title yet, but from what I've played in the first game, this game should be freakin' awesome!! The original was so intriguing, that the sequel should have some fine reviews. I will update on how The Suffering: Ties That Bind is later, when I get my hands on it in September. I can hardly wait!!!

As Gory As It Is Claustrophobic

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Just a Note: This game is a sequel, so you might want to pick up the first title before delving into 'The Ties That Bind'.

My biggest problem with Ties That Bind is that the first-person view doesn't allow for a wide view of the landscape. I continually find myself wanting more space on the screen and I can't get it. The tactic may have been used for dramatic effect, but it only frustrates me.

'TTB' is a pretty good game, though, just short enough and gory enough to be tolerable. Plus, I bought it used and feel that I've gotten my money's worth out of it.

The storyline doesn't make very much sense, but then again, it doesn't have to. The plethora of guns and demons, gore and SWAT members you encounter make it all worthwhile.

If you like that sort of thing.

If you don't, then you won't enjoy the game very much. The story takes a while to get started. But the cut scences can be skipped, which is a big problem with other games of the same genre.

Suffering: Ties That Bind is more or less Half-Life Light - or Half-Lite, if you will - and is enjoyable if you've already played the other games and want something to pass the time. Also, if you have NO interest in the Half-Life series, this title might intrigue you.

The graphics are gross and the setting is unsettling, as is much of the material covered. A good game to play in between releases of bigger games. But overall, a fun title.

Like blood and guts play this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: October 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

this game was awsome when i first played my eyes where blood shot when i got off cause i played for a hole day. and for people who say these games are to easy well u should change the divilculty thats a no branier god. i would buy this blood and guts game cause its that awsome just killing people and when u buy it make sure u kill all the good people for the fun woot woot i like cake Ahhhhh!!!!!

Change the title! How to screw up a game in one easy lesson!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: August 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

A million glitches and freezes, no way to figure out or complete any ending, a complete struggle all the way. No pc cheats or hints anywhere on the web. This game sucks plain and simple. Got all the way to the end and couldn't get the game to finish. Piece of c rap!!

Same dark battle, new deadlier battlefield

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: November 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

When Midway released its game The Suffering last year, no one could predict that the game would be one of the most suprisingly fun (and gory) games to give a boost to the survival horror genre of video gaming. So how do you follow one of the biggest sleeper hit games of 2004?

The answer comes in the form of The Suffering: Ties That Bind. In this sequel you once again take on the role of Torque, the somewhat hero from the first Suffering. The game starts immediately after the events that occurred in the first Suffering, with Carnate Prison destroyed and Torque the sole survivor.

But if Torque thinks that he can finally leave what happend behind he gets proven wrong when a mysterious scientist named Jordan captures him and wants to learn about Torque's darker half, the monster that he can become at random times. But when an attack occurs that leads to a recurrance of the events from last time, Torque suddenly learns that Jordan was working along with a man from Torque's past named Blackmoore, who apparently may have had some connection to the death of Torque's family, which had led to Torque being sent to Carnate in the first place.

Now that Torque sees that he has freedom, he decides to head back to his home town of Baltimore to finally solve the mystery, confront Blackmoore and hopefully get some measure of retribution for himself and his family. But along the way he will have help from his wife, be struck with flashbacks to events of the past and a few run-ins with his old "friend" Dr. Killjoy who will once again force Torque to fact the monster that lives within him.

Suffering: TTB may seem like a slight retreading of the first game, but a lot of things have changed in the form of new and more deadlier beasts, a new level of power attack upgrades for Torque's dark side, and for the first time we'll actually get a chance to hear Torque's voice which we never heard during the first Suffering.

If you want to hand out a little more Suffering than you did the first time around, then it's the time to see if the Ties THat Bind can be rough...

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