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5 Games That Will Terrify You for Halloween
an exclusive of the Nintendo
Gamecube, is actually the cream
of the crop in this franchise,
let us not forget the restless
nights many of us spent curled
up under a blanket in our
darkened rooms while trying
to figure out how to make it
past those lurking zombies in
the bathroom stalls and find
one more precious typewriter
ribbon to save our progress
before meeting certain death.
Or maybe that was just me.
4. The Last of Us
I must admit I felt a bit weird at
first adding this title to our list
of scary games because, truth
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be told, it doesn’t seem to fit
any singular mold for a gaming
genre. But I attribute this more
to the brilliance of the game
itself—perhaps the greatest of
the PlayStation 3’s library—than
anything else. The fact of the
matter is when the underlying
premise of a game is to guide a
teenaged girl and her protector
through a land infested with
vicious undead, it’s hard to
qualify it as anything other than
horror. Or at least suspense.
And while I will certainly always
remember the beauty that
The Last of Us could bestow
upon those lucky enough to
experience it (seriously, the
giraffes), it goes without saying
that I had more than my fair
share of jumps and screams
while trying to avoid clickers and
their brethren every step of the
way. Now that Joel and Ellie’s
tale has been ported over to the
next gen PlayStation 4, there
really is no reason why any
self-respecting gamer should
avoid this one. Don’t like being
scared? Too bad, play it anyway.
And why are you reading this
list in the first place, then?
5. Silent Hill 2
Regarded by many not only
as the greatest survival horror
title ever, but one of the
greatest games of all-time, the
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