Despite their stumbles, I’ve always admired Capcom’s willingness to introduce changes to Resident Evil in order to keep it from feeling like the rickety old horror franchise it actually is. They haven’t always been successful buy runescape gold in that endeavor, but I can respect them for trying when so many developers have proven content with letting their games gradually wither away.

Modern horror games are under more pressure now than they ever have to find unique takes on combat. Dead Space introduced us to the concept of “strategic dismemberment” a term I’ll never get sick of using Condemned took getting up close and personal to a whole new level with its melee-based combat, and Alan Wake pitted us against enemies that used darkness itself as an impenetrable shield.

When it comes to the few horror games that have successfully elevated the situations that involve combat without sacrificing the scare factor, these are the titles that first come to mind.

Among them, Alan Wake stands out. The weapons Wake uses to vanquish evil are literal weapons of light: Flashlights, flares, bigger flashlights, light grenades or wait, that was Blade II, wasn’t it? and even the odd concert stadium that’s armed with potentially deadly pyrotechnics and absolutely no supervision. Guns still play a pivotal role in the combat, but they’ve been elevated by the scary stuff, which has been woven into the design of the game to make it more interesting.

Very few horror games have been genuinely frightening while at the same time offering a creative twist on the combat, and considerably fewer manage to accomplish this by cleverly forming a symbiotic relationship between the two seemingly disparate elements.

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