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Fatal Frame - Xbox

In a dark dark village lies a dark... dark... house...

You descend the old rotting wooden stairs into the darkness. The only light comes from the torch you clutch tightly in your hand. As your foot leaves the final creaking step, you turn down the darkening corridor to see your brother, the one you're searching for, turn round the corner. You scream his name and chase after him, but almost as if in a trance he disappears from view. Cast by an invisible light from somewhere you watch in horror as his shadow deforms into a luggish wilting skeletal frame of a man. You freeze as you watch from the corner, a pale face slowly look round, behind long greasy hair two midnight-black eyes pierce straight into yours. His cold dead lips seperate and his mouth opens revealing a toothless hollow void... Fatal Frame is a game that will grip you with terror like no other. Resident Evil itself was like visiting your sweet old grandmother for the day compared to this. although at times the game did make me jump there's nothing overly scary about a top-of-the-rank cop with a huge shotgun across his bulky chest that can kill most of his foes with one- shot head-kills. Contrary to that in Fatal Frame you play a young Japanese teen armed with nothing but an exorcism camera (how cool is that?) fighting foes that you can't see most of the time. This game, is not spattered beginning to end with blood and gore, rather this hits the audience with the fear factor that make films such as The Ring, The Grudge and Childs Play seem like... well... child's play! On more than one occasion I jumped out of my skin, sometimes because of something stupid like a candle flickering. The secret behind the creepy atmosphere of the game lies behind the sound of the unsettling floorboards as well as the background sounds and the random voice whispering you can sometimes hear within the game. If you thought battling spirits was all about funny-looking men in glasses with novelty backpacks and fat green ghosts covered in slime, think again.

Fatal Frame - Xbox

Don't play this alone...

This is a great game, it has its little flaws but which game doesn't. This is one of the scariest games ever, no doubt about it, so if you scare easy I'd advise you not to play alone. good graphics, nice story, great sounds. Once I get use to the idea of using a Camera to defeat my enemies (ghost), I loved it, and since they don't have Resident Evil for the Xbox, you can't go wrong with this one.

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  • Nov. 5, 2002 Review: Fatal Frame

    This teen-rated horror game from Tecmo may not be the scariest ride in town, but it'll do.