The Suffering

by Midway Entertainment

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• ASIN: B000HBN8TC
• Media: Video Game
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,292 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Gruesome and uniquely fun, October 9, 2006

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Some Guy (Redwood City, California United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: The Suffering (Video Game)

If you like creepy 3rd person shooters (there's also a 1st person option), this is a GREAT game.

You find yourself being walked into death row for murdering your family. Within moments of entering your cell, all hell breaks loose. Almost literally.

You're now on a mission to get yourself out of the prison while facing a multitude of uniquely gruesome monsters. Each kind is based on a form of execution (or other deaths, like being buried alive), and they're viscious.

There's lots of blood, and as you move through the prison there are massacred corpses of inmates and guards everywhere. They didn't have a fun time dying, trust me.

Fighting is fairly simple and you have a nice range of weapons to gather along the way. Ammo, health, and other items are plentiful enough without being overabundant, and there's a great "beast mode" where you can transform into a monster yourself to dispatch those pesky creatures.

The backstory is interesting and the game is filled with occasional hallucinations and flashes of vague imagery regarding your dead family and the prison's past.

It's great to look at, and it adds to the tension and scariness when you have to rely on your flashlight or flares to see in dark areas.

Although I haven't finished it yet, I'm smitten, and there are alternate endings depending on how you behave. Should you just kill that frightened guard or inmate that wants to tag along or let him live? It might be a good idea to let these people live, as they sometimes lead the way for you. Example: A scared-to-death guard leads you to the shack that opens the way to the graveyard/quarry/asylum section. Once you're there and he says he'll just stay behind, it's up to you whether to leave him or waste him. The ending will reflect these choices, being "good," "bad," or "neutral." Since I've done a mix of both, I'm interested in seeing which one I'll get.

Anyway, this game is fantastic to play and see. If you're into gruesome survival games with a good sprinkling of reasonable puzzle-solving, this is definitely worth getting.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, November 26, 2006

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Princess (Aurora, Missouri United States) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Suffering (Video Game)

I'm too much of a sissy to play this game(or most other shooter games) myself, but I loved watching my boyfriend play it. He's been telling me about it for a while and finally I got to actually see. I love that there are so many options to the game. You don't just play through a certain senario and finish the game. When you're done you can restart and have a whole new story to go through depending on what you do.
Choose to be good and help people survive, choose to be bad and beat the baddies to killing the prison guards and scared cons or just take the total insanity route and run around as a monster thing.
I'm buying the second one for my boyfriend for Christmas. Great present for us both.

5.0 out of 5 stars Dear God the Humanity of it all!, May 19, 2007

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That Review Guy (Earth.) - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: The Suffering (Video Game)

Wow, was I surprised by this game! what Violence, What Gore! and I must say that after several hours (of getting the willies and getting spooked) I began to notice that I wasnt feeling so hot after a while and i realized its all the mood,setting,and Intense Violence and gore of this game was actually starting to make me actually Feel like I was In Prison and demons were after me! truly nausiating (and i was feeling a little ill by now) gore and violence (mind you my repetition about it is because I need others to understand this game is FOR ADULTS ONLY!!!) ok after a while of some really scary exploration you find that you arent alone, quite the opposite! demons and freakish nightmares run amok everywhere and jump out at you In that Perfectly Spooky way that this game has captured. Far superior to ANY other Survival Horror game out there (including the resident evils though I admit it is similar) the gore may be too much even for some adults and the themes really make it that much more Sinister. the game does have a few graphical and one or 2 sound errors but nothing that will truly be noticable.


Graphics: 4 out of 5 a little choppy otherwise on par

Sound: 5 of 5! Scary, Creepy, and nausiatingly nasty!

Gameplay: controls may seem weird at first (being able to go FPS or 3PS) but get Very easy and user friendly. **Note** as you progress because in the beginning of the game you cannot attack or do much of anything but walk so you think "how do I attack?" it all becomes clear within 5 minutes because the beginning of the game teaches you how to use everything as each thing becomes available (such as transforming into a Murderous Demon!) but the best part of this game is the Freedom of Choice you are granted. dont like the guy you have to protect to the next area *just listen to the voices* and choose! either to kill him (as I did because he wouldn't shaddup about me following him outside so he Annoyed me and Bang dead! kinda satisfying in a creepy "get in touch with the Inner killer in you" way a 5 Star great without a doubt few games have ever altered my mood in such a way and also spooked me enough to actually jump! PerfectionThe Suffering