The survival horror genre has fallen by the wayside over the past generation. Horror games have simply devolved into shooters with less light sources and grotesque enemies, but that is not what constitutes a scary game. Last gen’s attempts at horror were pitiful. From Dead Space‘s play on power fantasy with its overpowered starter weapon to F.E.A.R.‘s poorly telegraphed “psychological” scares, gaming hasn’t seen a truly terrifying experience since the generation of the Playstation 2, Xbox, and GameCube(P.T. excluded as it’s just a teaser). For the first time in nearly a decade a developer has been able to tap into what makes a truly effective horror experience.
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SEGA has announced Fearless: Year of Shadow, a campaign that celebrates Sonic the Hedgehog and his brooding acquaintance, Shadow.
GamesIndustry.biz writes: "Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios.
The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight. There was no mention of other Sega UK studios, including Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive."
Shame about Creative Assembly, they should have just been allowed to do an Alien Isolation sequel.
It was that garbage coh 3 that did them in only a special team can make a sequel worse in every way even though it was a 10 year gap and the same era.
Two Point Studios and Sports Interactive probably run on a shoe string budget so that fits into SEGA better lol
