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Fun & creepy game!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Although some parts of the game were difficult, it was quite fun & I enjoyed the challenge. Great horror, action game!

Whod've thunk it?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is surprisingly interesting. The fact that you can carry over the first games' data over to it plus you can make your character good or evil makes it a game to play time and again. The multiple endings are also a noteworthy notion.

Underrated Horror Shooter With Actual Scares!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love the first game, but the 2nd is even better; You know the general plot: Escape the monsters while trying to figure out your 'past', which is shaped by the choices you make in the game. The enviornments are creepy and disturbing(not to mention varied!!), and the creatures that call them home are even more so; You battle man and monsters here, some of the more memorable ones back from the first game, designed by Effects-God Stan Winston; There are plenty of nice additions...The dogs who attack you w/knives and have human faces is a personal fave; Plus, this game is challenging; It's takes a little bit to adjust to the feel of the controls, but once you're used to them, this game is good scary fun; You can toggle between 1st and 3rd person, too...Nice hallucination sequences, too(in the style of the 'Fatal Frame' games....).

At $15.00, horror/shooter/action fans just can't go wrong here.

Glitches and annoying changes...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I really loved and completed the first Suffering game. I believe I am almost all the way through this one, but I am considering not playing it anymore. First of all, the game is virtually unplayable sometimes if you are using 480p HD. During the scene where Torque is riding in the back of the truck shooting, it literally dropped down to 1 frame every 5 seconds toward the end. Also, when using HD, you can't go into the archives and open the journals. It instantly locks up. I found all of these problems pretty quickly. If Midway doesn't want to hire game testers, I'll do it for free to keep them from ruining what would have been a great game.

After turning HD off (no biggie...graphics aren't everything) most of the bugs went away but it has still locked up a number of times. I could swear I'm playing an unpatched PC game. That out of the way just leaves me with my complaints about the game itself. Torque has apparently promised his parole officer that he won't carry prescription drugs on him anymore because now he will only consume them on the spot. What is annoying about this is that if you have just one tiny bit of health missing and you open a locker with pills inside, he eats the whole bottle and it was pretty much wasted! When that isn't happening, I'm usually low on health and have to backtrack looking for more that I passed over earlier. I guess wasting health unintentionally and backtracking was supposed to make the game scary, but I just find it annoying. Also, Torque can now only carry two weapons. Aren't characters supposed to gain NEW abilities in sequels instead of lose them? Can he seriously not stick a revolver in his pocket and a shotgun on his back? Just plain dumb.

Due to the way this one is set up, I find myself saving in every room and reloading to try again if I get hit. The first game, I just played through it without saving except for the checkpoints. It was a much more immersive experience. On the plus side, the levels are well designed as are the enemies, I just find the problems make it difficult to enjoy.

James

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: December 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I played the first one a while back on hard mode in the Xbox so i knew what i was getting myself into. This one is totally different. Just like they said the difficulty is alot harder on hard mode. when you see a gun (machine gun or tommy gun) on easy mode instead of a gun there will be a pole on hard mode. What makes it even more difficult is that when you fight bosses you must do it from far away. Without knowing they will surround you and there will be 3 on easy mode/8 on hard mode. Sometimes its kinda impossible but thats the fun of it. This game is worth your money PERIOD! the graphics are surreal, the sound makes for a very scary game, the gameplay is kinda difficult since one joystick moves him and the other uses to look around. Some will say that thats why the camera sucks. Just get used to it and you wont even worry about the camera as long as you master it! Choose your guns wisely cause you might pick one up and only find ammo for that gun once in a lifetime.
OVERALL id give this game a 5 because its not something that you beat and then trade it. This will be a game where you still have it and are stuck on a part (depending on difficulty)!

Later!

Not as great as the first one, but still way cool..........

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 20, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Just finished this game on easy, now I'm playing it on the hardest level, and let me tell you, it's like night and day, alot more challenging, tons more baddies and even a few more bosses. So, I got to say I'm having a blast playing this, but then again, I had a blast playing the first one. I have been playing games for years, and I have only given 1 game 5 stars (Manhunt), but the first Suffering comes close, and this one is just a tad bit behind that. I like the fact that you can't finish this game in 1 night, some levels take numerous attempts plus there is also the exploring. For example, a couple of times you come across characters who are there to help you if you follow them, and then they run ahead, but you want to take it slow, because just like the first one, there is lots of cool hidden stuff.

Torque is now in bleak and dreary Baltimore, when has become overun with alot of the same monsters from the first one and even a few new ones, and you can read about every one of them with the journals that are at your disposal to read anytime. You again have the choice of playing good or evil. I played good the first time and I'm killing everything in sight this round, so I'm not yet sure if that is going to effect the ending.

The weapons are numerous and powerfull, we are even talking grenade launchers and 7 or 8 other guns this time. But another thing that separates this game from others like it, is that with some levels you just don't blow everything up and advance, no, you got to think the way out, and I'm not going to lie, it's not so easy sometimes.

Yes, it's very violent and graphic, also lots of language, but if you could handle the first one, then you'll have no probs with this one, but, like I said before, take your time, explore every angle and corner, cuz' I guarantee you, there is so much to do and see, that you don't wanna miss a thing.

Here's looking forward to Sufffering 3....

graphics............4.5 stars, Sometimes a bit dark, but overall very, very impressive
game play............4 stars, Nothing distracting, just gliches here and there
sound/music..........4.5 stars, Perfect horror music, and I can actually understand what each character is saying
horror rating........4 stars, I thought the first one was scarier, but this one is still creepy

Great follow up!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is a great continuation to the original. Better graphics, more atmosphere, more combative battles, not easy but that's only if you don't choose your weapons wisely. A really dark story that's well matured for an adult audience as well.

No five stars because nothing is perfect...

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

...but I love this game. The camera angles are a bit spotty at times, but with the quick reload speed that isn't a problem if you get killed.

I loved the Suffering, and though I have no idea how far through this game I am, I have to say that the Suffering 2 is far superior. There is constantly something going on in the environments: breathing, screams, creepy background ambience, snippets of conversation. Corpses and blood everywhere. And let's face it, if you like hard core graphic violence horror games, this one is for you.

If you liked the first at all, just buy this. If you didn't like the first one, go back to playing Mario or whatever.

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