![]() ![]() When it comes to horror, the teen slasher genre (think Scream and Friday the 13th) makes a pretty good setup for a video game, if it’d done right. There have been plenty of movies based on video games (not always a good transition), but there is plenty of material from movies that will make great video games. RE Village is a great horror game to play on the PS5. Relatable horror with a bit of levity thrown in gives RE Village a sense of newness in a long-running franchise. Resident Evil Village isn’t so much an installment of the same old thing as a novel version of it. I mean, what can be scarier than a 7-foot-tall vampire with foot-long knives for claws? The fright-inducing and breathtaking environments and scenery of RE Village are stars of the show keeping the horror constant and authentic. Adding to the horror of that familiarity are a collection of bosses, monsters, and antagonists that are as creepy as they are deadly. You’ll find all sorts of horror movie tropes like a Dracula-stylized castle, a laboratory that only Frankenstein could love, a static snow television that obviously broadcasts from the Poltergeist network, and more. What makes RE Village scary is its relatability as you play the game. Playing RE Village, you are the protagonist Ethan Winters who is searching for his kidnapped daughter Rose in a village filled with mutant creatures. Resident Evil Village on the PS5 is the latest installment in a franchise that refuses to fall into insanity. The long-running horror franchises that set themselves apart are those that redefine frights instead of recycling them. Some video game franchises can fall into the type of insanity that was said by someone, somewhere as being “.doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The horror game genre is replete with such insanity. Without further ado, check out the best horror games for PS5. Sure, games from years past, including titles like Silent Hill 2, Amnesia, and Five Nights at Freddy’s (to a name a few), were absolutely scary, but the PS5 hardware is far more conducive to horror games, as more definition lends itself to scarier moments. And, what makes the scare even more alluring is playing it on a gaming console like the Playstation 5 which has the capability with outstanding graphics and sound to really pull you into the terror. Unlike movies, while playing a video game, you can’t look away or risk losing all that hard-won but terrifying progress. ![]() In this sense, horror video games are much like horror movies, but gaming horror may be just a bit more terrifying. There is definitely something about fear that draws us to endeavors that we know are going to frighten us. ![]() I may not remember the experience of putting down a difficult boss in a game, but I will definitely remember dropping a controller because something jumped out at me in a dark corridor. But, of all the emotions I want to experience playing a video game, the most intoxicating is having the scared out of me. If I’m on a quest, the game should make me feel the elation of discovery or the exhilaration of conquest after vanquishing a foe. When I sit and play a video game, I want to be so immersed in the experience that I actually feel something while playing. ![]()
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