It's one thing to be all brave in survival horror games when you're able to level a rocket launcher at your foes, but when all you're armed with is an ancient camera and a well-practiced ability to gasp in terror, it's a bit more intimidating. Tecmo's Fatal Frame series taps the Japanese occult to provide chilling tales of secret rituals and the ill-fated individuals sacrificed to serve them, and Fatal Frame III: The Tormented treads the same terrible path. Enjoyment of the game's dark subject matter is diluted slightly by some awkward controls and strange pacing, but there are still plenty of good chills to be had.
Freelance photographer Rei Kurosawa is dealt a severe blow when her beloved fiancé, Yuu Asou, dies in an ugly car accident when she's at the wheel. She cloisters herself in her home, letting her able assistant Miku schedule assignments and take care of the daily chores. One such assignment takes her to a reportedly haunted mansion, and while there, she sees a vision of Yuu. This incident touches off a series of disturbing dreams where Rei arrives at a decrepit, sprawling estate, chasing the specter of her former lover. She's not alone, however, as the manor is full of other ghosts who seem a bit on the unpleasant side. One such ghost is a mysterious woman whose skin is covered in blue tattoos--she reaches out to touch Rei in the dream, and Rei then begins to wake up with similar and painful spreading designs on her own body. Apparently the dream is part of a curse, tied closely to an old mountain ritual involving sacrificing a priestess by impaling all her limbs and staking her to the ground. Needless to say, matters get increasingly unpleasant, and Rei has to fight to learn as much as she can about the history of the ritual and the dream before she gets trapped in it forever.
Minimum:
OS: Windows XP SP3
Processor: 2 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800/ATI Radeon HD 2600 (256MB minimum)
DirectX «: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 10 GB HD space
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
Recommended:
OS: Windows XP SP3/Vista/Windows 7
Processor: 2.3 GHz Intel Quad Core Processor
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX460/ATI Radeon HD 5850 (512MB minimum)
DirectX «: 9.0c
Hard Drive: 10 GB HD space
Sound: DirectX 9.0c compatible
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