h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Many years ago I played what is arguably one of the scariest games ever. It's called Project Zero and it's survival Horror. Unlike Resident Evil or Silent Hill you don't carry a gun or bat, your weapon is a camera. That's right you take photos of the enemies and the power in the camera kills them. The enemies are ghosts, and proper tormented souls they are too. You can hear their voices screaming things like 'My eyes, my eyes' and one of the ghosts is called 'Broken neck' and she approaches you backwards, there is no 'incidental music' just the sound of the ghosts and your footfalls. Opening doors can be very dangerous because you'll be confronted by more ghosts. Sometimes you just needed to take one photo and the ghost would disappear but at other times you actually had to battle them, taking shot after shot until they were exorcised. I used to play it in the dark, because that's how I roll. I recently played the seecond one again on the Wii, which is even eerier, because the voices can be heard in the Wiimote in your hand. Spooky stuff.


A few months ago my local Blockbuster closed, but before it did, I bought the 3DS spin off Spirit Camera, which utilises the actual camera in the 3DS itself. Now, while this is rather when exorcising the ghosts, it does present one rather major (IMO) flaw. Throughout the game you to take photographs of certain pictures which appear in the game booklet which, in turn, reveal clues as to where you should be heading next. The flaw is that you need very good light in order to be able to take the photos which sort of defeats the object. Good fun nevertheless and perfect for playing in the summer, the only real problem was that I lost the game, all of it box, cartridge, little book, sometime earlier this year. I've searched and searched for it, but my searches were fruitless, until yesterday when I found it looking for something else. Always the way.

Deb

I have always found real life scary enough, I never go looking for any extras in games or movies.

<-----even stronger spirit.

May all your ghosts STAY in the computer.

Then we'd have all these haunted computers around. That might be trouble...

That might be a short story...

I'll think of that every time I pick my camera up now! Brrrrrrr!

[Amy P]