Midway’s The Suffering takes you through the bowels of a haunted maximum-security prison where you will face many villains who each represent a different way to be executed (hanging, lethal injection, electrocution etc).
One of the features that The Suffering boasts is the ability to control the camera instead of forcing the player to see only what the developers want them to see, like in previous survival horrors.
“We made sure that everything was scary enough that it didn’t matter how or where you looked, you would be scared”, said a Midway representative, “This way we give the players more control over the game,” he concluded.
The game also uses dynamic lighting and nine levels of frantic fighting and ‘horror-filled exploration.’
You play as Torque, a man convicted for murder. Did he do it? That is up to you. There are characters in the game that don’t necessarily need to be killed. As you progress, the game looks at how you handle these characters. If you kill them all, in the end you may find out that Torque committed the murder, but if you save or spare them, it could turn out that he was wrongfully imprisoned.
Players can also transform Torque into a monstrous alter ego that unleashes his fury upon his enemies.
Along with all of these features, The Suffering also sports the creative talent from one of Hollywood’s greatest creature creators, Stan Winston, who has created such famous baddies as Aliens, Predator and The Penguin from Batman Returns.
The Suffering appears to be a game that will creep you out and scare you every chance you get. If you are into the survival horror genre, you might want to get this for all the systems you can. The Suffering comes out this fall for PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube.
