Not just a feeling when you just going to prison the screams of inmate being sent to death row, well luckily in the 21st century, we don’t have to go in that death sentence in these days, with human rights prevailing and writing it in the constitution to abandon death sentences to all states in America and in most countries. But in the 1960’s or so it is still legal in that day; The Suffering is a all out third person shooter that combines open horror with prison life. You play as torque a recent prison inmate in Abbott state penitentiary; it is like a floating prison island but it is placed in Maryland somewhere in New York.
The game made from Midway entertainment one of the makers I have no problem remembering, because I don’t know them; but now I will remember them from this horror game. With an amazing atmosphere of hell inside one of the most places you would not believe to be, well this death house they call it is not really real, and to prove it you would never find it when you Google it out in the net. But the truth about the game is, that it came out in the early 2003 or so, which means it is not a recent game to hit the shelves, while the content inside the game will never die down, man really you cannot go over the horror that you are facing in the island, monsters being decapitated a mysterious looking ogre like monster that follows you around the place and never attacks. The game play is a default third person view but can toggle between the first and third. Weapons that you encounter in the whole of the game are normal hand to hand weapons that you may find in everyday prisons, homemade shivs’ or Tommy guns from the 1930’s you find in an underground prison. The environment is claustrophobic, long narrow hallways and all of the doors are reinforced metal or just bars. But if that doesn’t scare you , the method of how the monsters appear is all out annoying and scary; they show up and disappear in the darkness and you find out that they will never come out, while not looking they strike out of nowhere. The sounds in the background and little screams and bumps in the background makes you cautious in every turn.
While the graphics district is not all great and hip in terms of its looks, the strong points about the game is the atmosphere and the feel of every room and in every mission you do, with almost flawless cinematic flash backs and also spooky appearances of people that are vital to you when surviving in the prison. Plus, the ending is completely up to you do in the game, saving as much people gives you a good ending and in the two other are the neutral and the evil endings when you do nothing to save people or kill them in the game. This is an old but very scary game, but for those people who are scared to death in horror games, you can play this game with a lot of people for free and see you cry like a baby for the fun of it.
