A little repetitive. Not the best game in the world but it is fun, gory, decent story and a little scary...
User Rating: 7.7 | The Suffering PC
The Suffering is a horror survival type action game. It has its moments but it is no Doom 3. The graphics are decent as well as the sound. It is a pretty long game around 15 - 20 hours and there are 3 different endings depending on how you play the game through. The graphics are good not great. They suffer do to it being ported from consoles. It does look a little better than the console versions with higher rez textures and some special effects. The character models are pretty good as is the animations. The cutscenes also are done fairly well. Overall, the graphics are a little above average. The sound in the game is decent. The weapons sound ok the monsters make some good sounds and add some atmosphere to the game. Nothing out of this world. The voice overs are done well and the ambient music is pretty good and sets a nice mood to the game. Gameplay: You start the game in prison where you are being accused of killing your wife and 2 sons. During the game you don't know if you actually did it or not. The ending of the game will depend on the actions you take throughout, if you do good deeds you will get a happy ending, do bad and you will get an evil ending and the third ending is if you play a lot of the game as your alter-ego which is basically monster mode. After killing enough you have a meter and when it fills you can switch into Torques alter-ego which is this giant monster that can rip enemies apart. It is kinda cool but you can only switch for a short amount of time before you revert back, kill more again and your meter will fill. You have your basic weapons in the game, revolvers, shotgun, tommy gun etc.. there is a flamethrower, axe, shive and then grenades, molitiv cocktails and dynamite. The combat is ok, you will battle around 6 - 7 different monsters throughout the game but it gets repetitive fighting them over and over again. The levels are somewhat varied a lot of them are in the prison and then there are outdoor levels around the prison. They are decent sized levels and the game should take you 15 - 20 hours and then there is replay value if you want to play again and try the other endings. The story is decent and kind of disturbing you start getting flashbacks of your wife and kids deaths. There is sort of a sanity effect in the game like Eternal Darkness had. You will get some hallucinations and blurry effects throughout the game. The effects are ok but nowhere near as good as they were done in Eternal Darkness. Overall the game is slightly above average. Repetive combat, decent story and a some pretty cool endings to the game. This is the type of game the you get when there is nothing else out that is high profile. Get the game when there is a lull in good games out and get it in the bargain bin. It is worth the 20 hours of play if you have nothing better to play at the time. 
