My "Suffering" has ended...

User Rating: 5.4 | The Suffering PS2
By Squall6Cloud | Review Date:
Two weeks ago my brother told me he had just finished playing this Survival Horror game called The Suffering, and that he had thought it was amazing. He said it's even scarier than resident evil or silent hill. He made me promise to buy it and play it. He said in his opinion the game was 10/10. Well.... With recommendations like that you would think you can't go wrong. I was planning to find it for $6 to $7 used at some point anyway and play it but after my brothers recommendations I bought it new for $19.99 + shipping and tax which came to about $26.

I put the game in and saw the intro, and the game started. It seemed adequate at first. But the controls were very bad. And the camera angles were VERY bad at times (even on 3rd person view). I got motion sickness after 1 hour and had to turn it off.

The next day I popped it back in and I kind of got used to the camera. And today I finished the game with the GOOD ending.

I think this game is a prime example of the fact that an idea alone cannot make a good script for a game. You can't just STRETCH an idea to make a script. You have to use an idea, and then having the idea in mind come up with an actual story to interest people. So having said that I can tell you that this game seriously lacks substance. Even the idea that is stretched out is a mediocre one at best. The gameplay is not good. It is very monotonous, boring and cliche. The controls are bad, the gameplay is awful...

All in all it is a waste of time. I donot recommend buying, renting, or playing this game.

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