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- Platform: PlayStation2
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The Suffering: Ties That Bind is a uniquely American action-horror experience that surpasses the original in every way. You are Torque, armed with a deadly arsenal and your last shred of sanity, condemned to wage war against horrific monstrosities in a bloody battle for revenge against a hidden mastermind who holds the keys to your past...
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The Suffering: Ties that Bind (PS2)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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A lot of the reviews state that if you enjoyed the original you will enjoy this but I am not sure this is strictly true.
I loved the original and not only is the sequel very similar but the essential ingredients are still there - the sounds that put you on edge (both games relying heavily on the use of sound for scare factor), the flashing images, the transformation from man to beast. However, a few tweaks have ruined rather than enhaned the experience.
Firstly, you could play the first game without transforming from man to beast. This game forces you to turn to beast and they achieve this by regularly putting you into battle with a hoard of enemy. Rather than putting a chill down your spine this has the result of constant frustrating as you die several times before finally escaping the other end intact, just, and searching for xodium to replemish your diminished health. The game kind of gets round this by letting you save at any stage (which the original does not) but even so saving right before a large battle still does not take away the fact that survival is often luck rather than skill. And there are a lot of battles to do with anything up to 20 or even 30 enemies in one go.
The game often takes you out of horror mode and you will find yourself on the streets doing gun battle with the army or shooting down helicopters, gun battles on the docks, again with heavily armed expert marksmen. Rather than add variety this takes away the genuine scare factor that was so good about the original.
I gave up before completion. After defeating a particularly difficult boss I promptly saved the game. Then I was forced to contend with every beast I had confronted throughout the game with approximately 50 M16 shells under my belt. Not going to happen, even with beast mode.
So I was disappointed with the game, the original was a genuinely frightening and unsettling experience when played with the lights off and this is exactly what this type of game should do. This one didn't seem to know if it was survival horror or a FPS, but the combination of both didn't work for me. The fact that it was so frustratingly difficult at so many stages just made the whole experience even less enjoyable.
Have a look by all means, but for me I would rather play the original again. With the lights off, surround sound on, wearing asbestos pants.
I loved the original and not only is the sequel very similar but the essential ingredients are still there - the sounds that put you on edge (both games relying heavily on the use of sound for scare factor), the flashing images, the transformation from man to beast. However, a few tweaks have ruined rather than enhaned the experience.
Firstly, you could play the first game without transforming from man to beast. This game forces you to turn to beast and they achieve this by regularly putting you into battle with a hoard of enemy. Rather than putting a chill down your spine this has the result of constant frustrating as you die several times before finally escaping the other end intact, just, and searching for xodium to replemish your diminished health. The game kind of gets round this by letting you save at any stage (which the original does not) but even so saving right before a large battle still does not take away the fact that survival is often luck rather than skill. And there are a lot of battles to do with anything up to 20 or even 30 enemies in one go.
The game often takes you out of horror mode and you will find yourself on the streets doing gun battle with the army or shooting down helicopters, gun battles on the docks, again with heavily armed expert marksmen. Rather than add variety this takes away the genuine scare factor that was so good about the original.
I gave up before completion. After defeating a particularly difficult boss I promptly saved the game. Then I was forced to contend with every beast I had confronted throughout the game with approximately 50 M16 shells under my belt. Not going to happen, even with beast mode.
So I was disappointed with the game, the original was a genuinely frightening and unsettling experience when played with the lights off and this is exactly what this type of game should do. This one didn't seem to know if it was survival horror or a FPS, but the combination of both didn't work for me. The fact that it was so frustratingly difficult at so many stages just made the whole experience even less enjoyable.
Have a look by all means, but for me I would rather play the original again. With the lights off, surround sound on, wearing asbestos pants.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Good game, worth a look at for soething a bit different,
Its pretty scary, and the story line is good, play it in the dark alone...prrrrrrrrrrrrp
Its pretty scary, and the story line is good, play it in the dark alone...prrrrrrrrrrrrp
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Once again become the troubled inamte Torque, a man who may or may not have killed his family, as he re-emters the suffering.
This time Torque moves from Carnate Island to his home of Baltimore, as he fights new and old enimies through the streets, sewers and the prisons of trhe city. Searching for a person who may have the answers to his families deaths.
Once again the Suffering has its morailty sacle which determins Torque's end fate. But this time the storyline is much more in dept and the foes are more varied and challenging.
For those who from the first game a bit too short, a bit weak on storyline, or a bit too easy. The makers have lisened and responded.
To all fans of survial horror this is a must play, that you will want to play again and again
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Worst sequel in the history of sequels
In my opinion - this game gets the dubious title of Worst Sequel Ever!!!!!
The original is an amazing game, one of the best games on the market - I can't think of a bad... Read more
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Published on 18 Oct 2006 by Mike Jonze
a brilliant survival horror
If you enjoyed the first suffering you will deffinatly like this game which in my opinion is as other people said just a follow on from the first game. Read more
Published on 5 Feb 2006 by Mr. Ji Cartledge
an extension of the first game
this game is not too original being rather an extension of the other game except this time your on a different place but you still play a large part of the game in a prison as... Read more
Published on 31 Jan 2006
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More intence, more weapons, more creatures and more all the ways. I must name this game "More Suffering". Read more
Published on 1 Jan 2006 by Masood Mehdi Rizvi
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