Are Games Scary Enough?
Jim Rossignol writes: "Recently I’ve been lucky enough to get my hands on EA’s upcoming "survival/horror shooter" Dead Space, and the experience has set me thinking. It’s a fantastic, brutal game and technically impressive in all kinds of ways, but it’s not actually all that frightening. Like the video nasties of the 1980s, it’s horrible without really being horrifying. There are a few jumps here and there, and the mutants you stomp into splattered viscera really are repugnant, but I’ve nevertheless ended up thinking about how rarely contemporary games manage to evoke the emotion that the genre often does best: Fear."
