Fabio Alessandro Gatti

VIDEOGAMES: SURVIVAL HORROR

WHAT ARE THEY?• Survival horror is a subgenre of action-adventure video

games inspired by horror fiction

• These games make the player vulnerable by providing them with less ammunition and fewer heavy weapons (than other action games) to take out the obstacles that they face.

TIPS

• The player character is vulnerable and under-armed, which puts emphasis on puzzle-solving and evasion, rather than violence.

• Something important about the survival games is that the main character is always involved in certain type of mystery that has to be solved using weapons and intelligence.

GAMEPLAY• The player must face a large number of enemies, but ammunition is

sparser than in other games,[ and powerful weapons such as rocket launcher and other heavy weapons are rare. Thus, players are more vulnerable than in other action games, and the hostility of the environment sets up a narrative where the odds are weighed decisively against the player.

• This gameplay shifts away from direct combat, and players must learn to evade enemies or turn the environment against them ..

LIST OF POPULAR SURVIVAL HORROR GAMES

• Resident Evil series.

• Silent Hill series.

• Left 4 dead series.

• Alone in the Dark.

• Doom series

• F.E.A.R. series.

• Dead space series.

• Bioshock.

RESIDENT EVIL SERIES• The story takes place in 1998, in a Midwestern town called Raccoon City,

United States, where a multinational pharmaceutical organization called Umbrella Corporation focuses on research, development and trade of all goods and services there, but in fact is the cover for an industry that develops and sales weapons, especially biological-tech.

• All the series are based in the accident in the umbrella corporation, located in the center of the city, causing all the citizens to become some kind of zombies.

SILENT HILL SERIES• Silent Hill manifests itself in at least three distinct parallel layers,

or dimensions: a populated town; a seemingly abandoned town veiled by supernaturally thick fog and filled with monsters; and a dark and decaying version of the town (called the "Otherworld"), also filled with monsters. Occasionally, the player characters will transit between the dimensions, and in some cases the dimensions may intersect with each other, creating an incoherent space called "Nowhere".

• The history of the series is always changing between the games, the few things that doesn’t change are the city and the dimensions.

NEW GENERATION OF S.H. VIDEOGAMES

• Some of the new videogames of this sub-genre include the games Silent hill: Shattered memories, Calling and Amnesia: The dark descent.

• This new games are based in the use of the psyquic fear and the mental manipulation of the suject while playing, making the person more suceptible to scare themselvs easily and with some certain of fear development while the game goes on.

• This kind of games are non based on the action-adventure, mainly because the major part of them are based on weapons, which isnt the style of this kind of games