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Looking for a good horror/action game (360, plzkthx). Which is better?

First Encounter Assault Recon is FPS, with more cinematic action with horror segments.

Dead Space is, in my opinion, more horror-focused.

Both good; just attempting to be informative if you don't know it already and/or it might influence your decision.

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Dead Space for sure. It's the only really good Horror game in a very long time.

F.E.A.R. was pretty good, but I thought Dead Space was way more scary. I wouldn't say one is a better game than the other. They are completely different as far as gameplay goes. F.E.A.R. is a FPS and Dead Space is a survival horror game.

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I'm with Raltar, fear was pretty good, but Dead Space has more scary bits.

Could always play Amnesia if you want the piss scared out of you as well.

I finished fear. I got bored by dead space. Ymmv

I also played through both, and agree with the consensus that dead space was just scarier.

Fear is much more run and gun traditional FPS. Dead Space was much closer to the resident evil style of game, not traditional FPS controls.

Also, I thought the in-game HUD in Dead space increased the immersion a TON (and was just really, really cool). I'm looking forward to Dead Space 2.

Dead Space rocked. My experiences were similar to my first play-throughs of Resident Evil 1 and 2 where you're low on ammo and you know something is lurking. There were also a few places where you could really plan out the fight you knew was coming. Dead Space felt more like a "fight smarter, not harder" game.

Plus, everything I've seen about Dead Space 2 is awesome. You must prepare yourself.

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Dead Space felt to me to be an awful lot like Doom 3 - only scary in that "jump out at you when you least expect it" sort of way, except that you eventually come to know exactly when to expect it.

F.E.A.R. genuinely creeped me out on a pretty regular basis. It consistently gave me shivers like I haven't experienced in any other game with the exception of the first couple of times I encountered a witch in Left 4 Dead.

That said, F.E.A.R. is, as previously mentioned, a standard FPS in terms of it's play mechanics; while Dead Space is a survival horror that has a number of interesting quirks. Zero-G areas, portable stasis generator, kinesis module - it's all pretty cool stuff.

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FEAR felt like an action FPS to me, did not scare me at all, nothing really has besides Resident Evil 1, I just couldnt get into Dead Space, but im so sick of FPS and FPS clones that would probably why.

Im with Uinan, if you want to be scared play Amnesia: The Dark Descent

If you want a scary game, this is it, its an indi game and can probably be beaten in 5-10 hours, not very long, but damn spooky. Does not require mega PC, and I beleive its $5-$10 on steam.

I greatly appreciate the input. I had assumed both Dead Space and F.E.A.R. were FPS horror, but based on what I'm reading, Dead Space is more survival horror. My problem with that is...I'm not a fan of survival horror (never got into the Resident Evils, Silent Hills, etc.). So despite it (Dead Space) winning the poll, I ordered F.E.A.R. and F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin, as I found 'em on eBay for a total of around $20. I'm not denying Dead Space, just that right now, the F.E.A.R.s seem to be, based on responses here, more in line with my wants.

I have seen Amnesia on Steam several times, and it taunts me...I may investigate further.

Also, token mention of Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem. Wish I could get an HD remake of that. So, so good.

Well, Dead Space is more like Survival Horror... but it's closest to Resident Evil 4's feeling more than anything.

Hey, you are bound by the legality of the poll! Return those games and buy dead space immediately!

Also, man Eternal Darkness was awesome. If only they had been able to complete the trilogy as it was designed.

Hey FarSky - it wasn't on the poll, but ... have you tried Left 4 Dead? If not, I highly recommend it. Never played it on a console system, but picked it up dirt cheap from Steam during their holiday blowout and it's given me quite a few hours of enjoyment.

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Dead Space is more what DooM 3 should have been. FEAR is more Japenese Horror. Both very decent games, but both very different in terms of how they build tension.

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Left 4 Dead is one of the greatest multiplayer games ever created. It is pretty damn boring on single player, though. Also, it isn't scary at all. But I **** love it regardless.

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I never played Dead Space but FEAR was a big yawner for me.

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I've never played either of them, but I have to give Monolith the benefit of the doubt. Every shooter they've ever made prior to F.E.A.R. was incredible. the NOLF series still ranks among my favorite of all time.

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Alan Wake? I bought it from amazon on a Boxing Day sale for $20. I haven't played it yet but I hear its pretty good. Maybe not action-oritentated enough though?

I'm pretty sure Farskee already has Alan Wake.

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Dead Space is like Alan Wake if you replace the forest with a space station, and you replace ghosts with disfigured monsters. Environment and controls otherwise are similar.

Ah ok. I thought I remembered him talking about it before but I figured I would mention it just in case.

Personally, I want an entire game that is the Shalesbridge Cradle, the single mission from Thief: Deadly Shadows (mission is called Robbing the Cradle). I've never had a game chill me to the bone like that single level did. It was brilliant. It was more than brilliant. It alone was worth the price of admission for the whole game.

Null (the level designer who spent a whole year crafting that masterpiece) is a master at finding ways past all of your little psyche defenses, and then tearing you down and turning you into a frightened little girl. And it is probably one of the only horror pieces in a game where when you turn on the lights for the whole Asylum that it's a bad thing. A very bad thing.

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I think you're also forgetting the awesome lasers and dismemberment in dead space. If only that had been in Alan Wake!


Honestly, I liked Alan Wake, but it was SO repetitive. I didn't feel like Dead Space suffered from that as much.

FEAR had some creepy moments in between some intense FPS goodness. But FEAR 2 was just FPS firefights. There was no impact from the creepy moment attempts, because a) it was pretty much the same creepy effects and b) knowing the ending to the first game made the creepy effects a pile of meh-flavored copycat mediocrity.

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