Review on Page 5
October 2011 ~ Vol. 5, Issue 2
Spooktacular games for the Halloween season By Alyse McMiller
Looking for a scary game to play this year? Then I recommend Amnesia: The Dark Decent. This PC game will keep you frightened even after you turn it off. In this game you play as Daniel, who is trapped in a haunted castle and has lost his memory. All he remembers is his name, where he lives and that something is hunting him. In the game, he finds a note telling him that he has to go deeper into the castle and kill a man named Alexander. Now that sounds easy enough, but there is a twist. You are unarmed. You cannot attack monsters, which means you have to avoid them or hide from them if one appears. Practically, this game is a very large puzzle and the pieces are scattered throughout the castle. If
Amnesia: The Dark Descent you decide to play this game, you should take this advice: Keep your sanity up. While, scary games are great for some people, I’d rather play a Halloween game that doesn’t give me nightmares. So for those of you like me, I highly recommend Costume Quest for Xbox 360 and PS3. It’s cute, well designed and has a good sense of humor. But, enough about me. In Costume Quest, you can choose to be one of two twins who are about to go out Trick-or-Treating. However, once you
go out your sibling gets kidnapped by an actual monster. The monster then takes the sibling into a door you can’t get in without candy and something to fight them with. Your job is to find friends and gather candy. Not every door has a nice old lady handing out chocolate. Some houses have monsters that answer the doors. That’s when the actual battles begin. To fight, you transform into whatever costume you are wearing. Each costume has a special ability both on
and off the battlefield. And they only work when your character is wearing them. This arcade game and the free demo is available on Xbox LIVE and the Playstation Network.