Top 10 Scare the Hell Out of You Games
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System Shock 2 stands in a genre of its own. Fusing FPS mechanics with deep RPG style character development, SS2 doesn't ram cheap monster closet thrills down your throat. Instead, it gets inside your head just to mess with you.
You wake up in a deserted space ship, the Van Buren, only to find the rest of the crew horribly killed or turned into monsters. Your character uncovers audio logs and bits of the story along the way.
It's the subtle nature of the terror slowly welling up inside you that makes this game such a success. It's no wonder Ken Levine has gone on record stating that Bioshock is the spiritual successor to System Shock.
While I agree with some of their choices, the list immediately loses credibility with me when it features a Nintendo DS game before (at the very least) "The Ghost Haunts at Midnight" quest in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
