The zombies' usual lumbering is kind of deceiving. They are actually very, very fast.

Imagine my surprise when I decided that, instead of waiting in a room for a zombie to come get me, I decided that I would make a break for it out of the room and simply run around him. Hehe, bad decision. The zombie quickly charged at me and tore my helpless body to pieces.

Needless to say I've never overestimated my ability to outsmart or outrun monsters in that game ever again.

I enjoyed call of cthulhu a lot. It was only programmed by 1 guy so it has some issues. It is a good conversion of the pen and paper campaign escape from innsmouth.
I played the first hours of condemned but wasnt too happy with it because it is more a simple ego shooter than horror.

I can highly recommend to those who liked amnesia to play penumbra 1&2 (requiem [part 3] is more a series of puzzles than a game). Penumbra is btw the predecessor of amnesia.

Now I've loosed my mind... didn't know that Call of Cthulhu was made by one guy Game is so great!

Only one guy? That can't be true. Are we talking about dark corners of the earth here? Because in that case, Bethesda was involved, and I'm pretty sure that they had more than just one programmer back then already... It would also help to look up the credits btw.

Speaking of which....

yeah, definatly not a single guy. I know my old colleague Malcolm Grant worked on that one...

Horror games lol. I never cared much for the genre because it seems like most of them get you scared by having things jump out at you. That's actually fine by me, but not when it's contrived. Hell Shadowgrounds made me leap out of my seat multiple times and I loved it, but it sure wasn't scary. I do like Dead Space actually, but for the awesome atmosphere.

A game doesn't have to be a horror game to be scary, in fact the scariest games I ever played were not horrors at all. What games need to do is create good characters, put them in peril.

Scariest moment in any game I ever played was the encounter with Sniper Wolf in the original Metal Gear Solid. I was like, "Holy shit is she dead?"
Followed by that was the notorious "Breakup" scene in The Darkness. I swear I nearly broke my thumbsticks trying to move. I honestly can't think of scene that made me more emotional. I couldn't believe it had happened, it was really that shocking. Amazingly the game manages to carry the momentum all the way to the end.