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Scary as Hell

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

My friends don't understand this game. I've played it with them before. Heck, they've held the controller in their hand, and felt the subtle thump of the main chadacter's heart beat constantly pulsing through their fingers. They've encountered ghosts, and fought them with the character's supernatural antique camera. They laugh, and claim this game isn't scary. Perhaps the camera is the reason. After all, it is your only weapon. But while they may call it stypid, I call innovative. This game redefines the survival-horror genre. And I don't care if my frineds don't understand it. They've never played it alone in the dark, with the volume turned up. They haven't looked around a room they knew was empty only to find the ghost of a disfigured man suspended upside down from the ceiling, staring silently.
I will admit, at first I was skeptical that this game wouldn't prove to be as great as the Resident Evil series because of it's 'Teen' rating. I've never been more wrong. This game scares silly the way the Sixth Sense managed to creep you out despite it's PG-13 rating.
It's fun, the cinemas are great, the graphics are wonderful, the sound is good, and it is scary as hell.

A MUST PLAY for Thriller Fans

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Very few so-called horror movies, books, or video games live up to the cliche: "Scary As Hell". But, if you're looking for the one exception look no further than "Fatal Frame". Any fan of the survival horror genre will feel right at home with this destined-to-be classic chiller. But the question is: will you have the guts to stay once you're there? Imagine you're trapped in a dark, haunted house full of evil spirits that lurk and stalk you around every turn. Then, watch your imagination come to life as you are immersed within the game. "Fatal Frame" has great graphics and sound as expected from the Playstation 2 along with a very intriguing storyline accompanied by special effects and an intense, creepy atmosphere that makes the setting of this game a very unpleasant place to be. And on a personal note; after having played supposed scary games in the past like "Doom" and "Resident Evil" that were capable of causing a few jumps and quick breaths, they are like mere child's play when compared to "Fatal Frame". A game that will surely deliver endless chills, deep breaths, goose bumps, and just plain and simple fear. So, turn off the lights, crank the surround sound, and experience the chilling terror that lies within this edgy, creative nightmare.

This is the definition of a scary game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 30, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Ive never heard of this game being called 'fatal frame', because it is actually called 'project zero'.Anyway, thats just the way i see it, i'm not sure witch title came out first.Anyway, this isn't important!This game is really scary!!No, not scary like resident evil, not scary like silent hill, this game is ACTUALLY scary!!The age certificate is '18+', and i am 14!!. Iv'e only ever played this game on my own, and that is the scariest way to play it.And if you buy it to be scared, play it on your own and it will scare you until you are at your sanity's edge.Because it is so scary, i don't play it often(it must be my age-14!!) and i hav'nt even done the first chapter!!(The chapters are HUGE by the way, my total play time is around 15 hours, and there are five chapters!!)Being a games expert, i am a bit ashamed of this, but fear is my weakpoint.I am not scared easily, but when i am i hate it so much!
One of the stand out moments(so far)is when your curiosity forces you too look down a hole in the floorboards only to discover it is too dark to see anything. Without any thought whatsoever, you turn around and casually walk away without a care in the world.The camera angle is situated so you can see the hole in the background. As you walk away you notice a white figure rise from the hole. Even though it rises slowly, it makes you jump savagely. Then, you hear a little girls laughter. You turn around and walk up to the figure for more details. It is a complete shock to see a little girl( around 10) with a broken neck and a rope around her neck.(she had obviously been hung). Even more disturbing, however, is that the girl, although facing you, is standing backwards. Her neck is broken so severely that it is drooping down her back, her head alomst as low as her knees. This caused me to flee the room and pause the game. I thought about what just happened and vowed to never enter that room again, unless it was absolutely necessery. Then suddenly, the little girl walks straight through the closed door, chasing me up a corridor with dangling ropes hanging from the cieling. A large mirror at the end of the hall allows me to watch the chase from behind.
This is a typical scene from 'project zero' and the game is full of this kind of thing.
Another wierd moment was when i walked into a room only to see a floating head of a smiling woman hovering towards me.
The game is cunning.For example, it makes you investigate things and just when you think things are ok, and your heart rate goes back to normal you will see a mangled woman in a mill wheel going round and round.It is things like this that make you question your characters sanity........or yours........
This game is beyond any horror game i have ever experienced, and i have been a fan of this genre(both games and films) since the release of the playstation console.
If you thought 'resident evil' was scary, you best stay as far away from 'project zero' as humanly possible.
Everything about this game is chilling. The atmosphere, the sound effects, the extremely fine tuned graphics,the setting and the screams that echo from the other side of the mansion you are situated in.
If you like any horror game, or if you have never played a horror game, this might just convert you.Just don't expect the other games of the same genre to be as good though!
Peace out.
Ryan ps. best turn the lights on when you play this!!

its scary when you are going to bed!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i recently bought a copy of fatal frame and its such a great game and scary too,but only when you are going to sleep(im 13 by the way)the story is about a girl with a 6th sense(can see ghost and has premonitions)that goes to himuro mansion to search for her brother there she discovers that one night a calamity(when a ritual fails)happened and the master of the house killed almost everyone(the ones that didnt die because of the calamity).now for the gameplay:Miku has a camera to shoot down ghost and it can be upgraded to be more powerful(to paralyze ghost or make them slower etc)Miku move so slow that a turtle can outrun her but you will get use to it.the story has 5 long chapters in which you backtrack to do new objectives(it doesnt get boring)i finished the game in 12 hours so its longer than the other games i recently bought(king kong,harry potter 4 and prince of persia 3)the puzzles are simple,light up all the candles,put the dolls or buddha statues where they belong,put the number in the lock to unlock the door and find a talisman and put it in the star (the ones that rockstars use) to unlock the door.the game is very spooky and eerie and if there was more blood and violence it would have been mature but i think it should be mature because of the intense storyline.the graphics are great and the sound too.the ghost are spooky(a girl with a broken neck that follows you backwards because her head is at her back,a women that has no eyes that goes around screaming my eyes,my eyes!!! and the master of the house that has a weird mask that slashes you with a sword are the worst)other than the spooky storyline that keeps me up at night the game is great and i recommend it

The Blair Witch Of Japan?

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Himuro Mansion. Humans check in, but they don't check out. Welcome to Hell on Earth, Himuro Mansion, where a 100 year-old curse has claimed the lives of the entire family that once lived there. Most recently a journalist named Junsei Takamine, (man I hate trying to pronounce these Japanese names), goes to the mansion to do research for his latest book along with two partners when they mysteriously disappear. Then Mafuyu Hinasaki, a pupil of Takamine's goes to the mansion to find his mentor...only to disappear as well. The main character is Mafuyu's younger sister Miku, who is now on a mission to find her brother and possibly even end the curse once and for all. Armed with a strange camera called the "Camera Obscura", which has the power to trap ghosts by taking their pictures, Miku travels the haunted halls of Himuro Mansion in search of answers. Being a ghost hunter and a gamer I had to try this title when it came to PS2 and, lo and behold, it became my favorite survival/horror game. The ghosts are pretty scary and they will pop out at you from nowhere. Most ghosts must be defeated while others simply test your speed with the camera. Either way,it's always a heart thumper. The creepiest part of this game though, is that it's supposedly based on a true story, but I'm not sure how accurate that is. It has since spawned two sequels: Fatal Frame II:Crimson Butterfly in which you are no longer confined to a single building but get to scour an entire haunted village, and now Fatal Frame III:The Tormented, which features the return of Miku. The most exciting part however is that Dreamworks is working on a movie adaptation of this popular series. Let's hope it turns out good. Close the curtains, turn out the lights and prepare for a fright fest. But whatever you do, don't play Fatal Frame alone!

SOO Scary!!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: September 18, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I don't own this game- I rented it once and sadly never completed it... :( Now games like Resident Evil are supposed to be scary, but I played one and it just made me annoyed. I did jump, but it was all the damn unending zombie troops popping out of everywhere. This really is scary, which I was NOT expecting. I actually picked it up because of the cover; I love Asian horror movies! The ghosts were all so different and unique, not to mention grotesque. I liked the idea of taking pictures of them to suck them in, but some just took too many pictures! Another ghost, it creeped around the corner looking like Marilyn Manson and I ran, more scared than in years. My only complaints are running out of film because some ghosts are stronger or you miss, and the character's slow running. Eventually I got stuck by a river and the game was due back... Scariest game ever! Haven't played II, but have heard improvements, so III should be great if I can get through it!

Overall, an awful game

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: June 10, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge fan of survival horror games and this game is just bad. The graphics are quite good and the level designs are very atmospheric but the positive elements stop right there. The gameplay is awful. The character is very slow and your only weapon is a camera, which is not a "unique twist", it is an idiotic idea. It is beyond me how so many people are calling this the scariest game ever. I did not find this game to be even remotely scary. The ghosts are nothing more than annoying. Also, there are way too many of them. I could not finish the game because I ran out of film from being attacked by the same ghost, spouting the same cliched B Movie dialogue every five minutes, which is fine because I was seriously considering just not playing anymore anyway.

A must buy for any survival horror fan!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: June 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game ROCKS!

Sure it seems corny that the only weopan that the main character gets in this game is a camera. And my friends laughed at the idea when I told them about this game. That was until they played it. Wow did it freak them out!

Now you may wonder why I haven't said anything about my being freaked out. Well, even though I bought the game, when I was playing it I had a houseful of visiting family members and had to keep the sound real low. Especially when I was playing it into the wee hours of the morning. (Plus I had to keep the lights on at almost all times). So I was cheated out of the magnificent ARNIS audio technology that helps make this game so creepy. (When I was finally able to fully hear the game on one of my friends' sound systems, I was envious).

Just one more thing about the ARNIS audio technology: I never heard anything like it! My T.V.'s stereo doesn't work very good, yet I swear that I was hearing stereo sounds coming out of my T.V. that I never thought I'd hear without having to buy some kind of surround sound stereo system. I'm astounded!

My only complaint is that the fastest the main character moves is at a slow jog. But I got over that real quick.

You Play the Game, the Game Plays With You

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: September 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I'm serious here. This game WILL scare you. I'm only halfway through right now and I had to stop for a while. I can only compare it to watching The Exorcist alone. During the game, every little sound in your house makes you pause the game and listen closer. Even right now, as I'm writing this, I keep having this feeling that I should be looking over my shoulder. I can honestly say that Fatal Frame is messing with me a little bit. I wholeheartedly recommend this game to anyone who has always wanted to actually fear a video game. This does the trick... Trust me.

Chilling and fun

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: May 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty scary but after reading some of the reviews here, I think some people might be over doing it. I heard some guy even say that the game was so intense and scary that there was a feeling of depression afterwards. Another guy said that even as he wrote his review he was looking over his shoulder. I don't know what game those guys played or what their on, but be assured that's taking it a bit too far.

This game like most other Survival horror's outside of Resident Evil and Silent Hill attempt to make a formula that would combine the best of both of those great franchises. This game doesn't quite have as many jump scares as Resident Evil, instead it also has some kind of meter that brightens up in orange to warn you that there is a ghost nearby and the closer the ghost gets the brighter the orange light. No surprise this is almost a direct [copy] of Silent Hill.

Overall, the game isn't quite as scary as most Resident Evil's as few of the jump scares come as sudden and as sharp as they do in Resident Evil. The game also falls short in my opinion of being as disturbing as Silent Hill, the characters are surprisingly cartoonish looking for a survival horror. The game has no blood and sometimes when your fighting ghosts the background music will break into funky Japanese pop or something. Ghosts will also say cheesy lines like, "My eyes, my eyes, there's no one here". To some all that might actually be pretty disturbing, who knows.

Overall this is still a refreshing and scary game and it's probably my favorite survival horror only behind Silent Hill. Resident Evil is great, the formula still creates your basic scare but the plotline and characters need a reality check.

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