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Dead Space Swag Bag Giveaway
Win a Copy of the Game, Autographed Comics, and More
by Sean
UPDATE: THE CONTEST IS OVER. THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR AWESOME CONTRIBUTIONS. WE'LL ANNOUNCE THE WINNERS SHORTLY.
Dead Space, EA's new survival horror title, has finally creeped into stores across the world. To help celebrate the release, Gamervision is giving away all the Dead Space swag that EA sent our way. That's right, you now have a chance to get your hands on not only the game itself, but also a frightening amount of free Dead Space related gear.
Here's how to enter: Just leave a comment on this article describing your scariest moment in gaming. It doesn't need to be from a horror survival title, it doesn't even need to be a scary game. It's just a moment in your gaming history that left you sweaty and panting with fear. We'll pick the top three as our prize winners.
Now on to the prizes!
FIRST PRIZE
- Dead Space for the Xbox 360
- The Art of Dead Space book
- Issues 1 & 2 of the Dead Space Comic Books autographed by writer Antony Johnston and artist Ben Templesmith
- A Dead Space T-shirt
SECOND PRIZE
- Issue 1 of the Dead Space Comic Book autographed by writer Antony Johnston and artist Ben Templesmith
- A Dead Space T-shirt
THIRD PRIZE
- Issue 1 of the Dead Space Comic Book autographed by writer Antony Johnston and artist Ben Templesmith
- A Dead Space poster
Winners will be picked at noon (eastern standard time) on Monday October 20th. So reach back into your memory archives and dredge up that one terrifying moment that stands out as the scariest. It may win you some awesome swag!
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Comments
My scariest moment in gaming: when I went to turn on my 360 a week before BioShock came out and it red-ringed.
Dude, by far - the scariest moment for me was the first time that frickin' T-Rex came out from the dark in level 3 of Tomb Raider. Whoa! That was intense!
I have three, but have experienced hundreds (been gaming since 1979)
1) Resident Evil ... Doberman through window. Nuff said
2) F.E.A.R. when that girl crawls across the floor towards you
3) Aliens vs Predator when the aliens are trying to break into the room you are in through the air conditioning vents
My first time with a survival horror game being Alone In the Dark: the New Nightmare. The first time I played it I was at home alone with all the lights out and the sun going down. I was in the sewers and something popped up out of the water behind my character, I wasn't expecting it because nothing had happened for 10 minutes. It was the first time I was ever scared/ever screamed because of a game.
That stupid sun from Mario 3 when it first appears
Ridiculous and cliche as it might be, my scariest moment in gaming happened roughly 10 years ago, as a lad of 13-years-old. My brother had recently purchased a PS1 and with it, Loaded, a kickass top-down shooter (a la Smash T.V.) but way more bloody and violent. We played through the vast majority side-by-side, passing the controller back and forth (too poor for two controllers at 13, mind you), enjoying our time together.
After we finished the game though, we thirsted for more bloodshed. And so my brother borrowed a new game his friend had bought named "Resident Evil" (not legitimately new, just new to me as a young, internet-less kid). He returned from his buddy's house that evening, game in hand, to an excited brother ready for a new game.
It's around 11 o'clock at night and our parents are asleep. As his bedroom (and the t.v./ps1) were located directly below my parents' room, we have the lights/sound low so as not to wake anyone up. Flash to the intro movie, dogs running after the S.T.A.R.S Team as they take shelter in an enormous mansion.
"What the hell is this?", I asked, heart racing. After some brief (and trite) discussion in the main hallway, my brother guides Chris into an adjacent hallway (queue the door animation). He explores the creepy and nearly silent room, aside from his own footsteps of course, to find nothing other than a crest above the fireplace. But now we can hear what sounds like a sponge being jumped on by a mouse, repetitively, grossly, squishing over and over.
We enter the hallway and BANG -- queue the zombie animation where it turns from the body on the ground, speckles of carcass and blood slipping from what used to be it's face, only to look our character right in the eye. I nearly s&*t my pants.
There ya go.
I can't lie, I was scared by Dementium: The Ward.... on the DS Lite. This came up recently when someone told me Dead Space is way beyond my threshold for teh scarez.
@RIDLEY: Good call! That demonic sun's grin was terrifying!
My most scurred moment came not too long ago as i was moving apartments and when i was setting back up my game collection i could not find my beloved PS1 games which included Suikoden 1&2, FF Tactics, Legend of the Dragoon and FFVII. Now most of yall do not know me very well but i am a HUGE suikoden fan, i have played through each game on the PS1 atleast 8 times and it never gets old. These games hold some of my most memorable gaming memories and for a while i thought somehow i had lost them. I finally found them at my parents house in the stack of stuff to go to goodwill, my mom had thought she heard me say i did not want them anymore..
Well a phone call later and a SUPER FAST car trip and I had the games back in my hand and a mean face for my moms.. That was my scariest moment in my gaming history..!!!
I have to say, nearly every scary moment in here has been spot on - I remember being terrified at all of these moments as well.
@BenJahMihn: What was the name of that top down game!? I TOTALLY thought of it a few weeks ago and could not remember the name for the life of me.
F.E.A.R is probably the scariest game I've ever played and the scariest moment from that game left me shaking and hating myself for continuing to play. The lights were off and the headphones were on and I was in a situation where the only way to get through the level was going into the ventilation system. I was pissed because I knew, just knew, that there would be something waiting in there to scare the hell out of me. I actually circled the room for 5 minutes, just to be sure that there was no other way around. I've never felt like that, physically scared to go someplace in a game. I mean hell, it's just a game after all. Realizing that I had to do this or stop playing the game, I hit the vent cover, which clattered crazily, and made my way in. There was all this damn foggy air and the music started to get all eerie on me and I made up my mind to just run through the vent and not stop or turn around or anything. So that's what I did, running full speed through the fog, until that damn girl came crawling at me on all fours, looking like some demented marionette. I screamed and emptied a clip into her hoping against hope that bullets would somehow stop me from shaking. The hairs on the back of my neck would not go down and my skin was all prickly. I actually had to wait for a few minutes to calm down before going on. I hated and loved that moment at the same time. It wasn't just about having something jump out and say 'Boo' it was how they did the jumping that was so eerie to me. That game knew how to play on your fears perfectly.
my scariest moment was playing condemed 2 where i was in a hospital(literaly 5 mins after watching scary vids on youtube) and, like in one of the vids on youtube a chair rolled in front of me with noone in it and when i went up to investigate some weird thing jumped out and attacked me. i jumped and screamed, and my dad was upstairs and shouted down to shut up(kidding with me) and it gave me another fright.
When I was little I used to jump every time Jason popped up in one of the cabins in Friday the 13th. The shark in RE got me a few years later. However, the largest jump I ever had was in Bioshock when you're at a desk and a light goes on behind you and you see the shadow of someone and your turn around and he's right in your face and says "Hello!" Mikey Hamz witnessed my heart stop!
@darth - dude i feel ya on the shark, that part def. got me too
The scariest moments for me were in F.E.A.R. First was when you walk down this dark hallway and all the sudden once your almost out the door shuts in front of you and the ceilings are covered in blood. And the second was when you climb down the ladder and you look up and see Alma( the little girl) and you get so freaked out you just wanna get down the ladder, but when you do and turn around theres a guy walking towards you and he fades away. I wasted so many dam bullets freaking out.
I also got scared playing Resident Evil 4 from the beginning. I walked in the shed and got freaked out when I turned around and saw the lady stuck against the wall with a rake in her face. I jumped so high, and every point after that my hands were shaking as I played through the game.
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But the scariest moment yet would have to be in Condemned: Criminal Origins when you walk into a room with five mannequins against the wall. I walked by, not thinking anything of it, but then I turned around and all of them were standing inches behind me. They don't attack you but every time you walk, and then turn around again, there is more of them right behind you. I just wanted to leave that room so bad, but couldn't help but keep looking back. This scared me so much that I stopped playing the game for a while. Those things were so freaky. This moment made my hard stop, and made me move to the edge of my seat. If you only knew how freaked I was. I don't think it would be as scary if they attacked you, but these mannequins just stood there staring at you, while eerie music plays to freak you even more. Every time you look away from them to walk further you can hear their footsteps behind you, and the hairs on the back of my neck rose up. The only reason I kept looking back at them was to get them to stop following me for a couple seconds, thats how scared I was. Hopefully there will be scares like this in dead space, because I just picked it up yesterday.
After playing Eternal Darkness for about 5 hours straight alone in the dark I felt like I, myself, like the main character in the game, was bordering on insanity. It was in college and there was a disorientation as I walked to the dining hall with some friends, almost like I expected people's heads to randomly explode like in the game. The worst part was when I got to the ramp going into the hall and saw a line about 30 people long. I looked away and looked back and suddenly no-one was there. Obviously I just didn't see things right the first glance, but I got pretty damn freaked out anyways. Potentially going insane is scary.
I think the game that sticks out in my head as giving me the biggest scare was Ultima Underworld. It's a strange one to pick, but there's a lot of incidental creepiness in the game. For one, there's something very unnerving about spending the entire game in a very dark cave, either being visited by a spirit or attacked by something every time you sleep. No matter where you are in the game, you never really feel safe, even in the underground villages.
There were exact moments of terror in the game as well. For instance, mistiming a jump and falling into the river below. Then being dragged against your will by said river into depths unknown while being attacked by underwater beasts. One of my personal favorites was the dwarf king's treasure room. If you manage to find your way in there, all the gold inside will tempt you to fall into a trap pit belonging to a high-level creature, with no way out (incidentally, there were technically two ways out: a flight spell or death; the more probable scenario was death).
The biggest scare I got from this game was at the very end, though. You spend the entire game climing down the interior of a volcano collecting eight talismans like a sword, shield, etc. Near the end you're forced to throw all of these talismans in the lava before the Slashers of Veils, an chained-up invincible demon, in order to escape. When you throw the last talisman, you're transported to another plane. The scary part? The Slasher of Veils transported in right behind you. Since he will kill you in one or two hits, you've got to just run as fast as you can. That's all well and good until the path splits into three and you've got to choose which way to go. If you paid attention to a small detail at the very beginning of the game you'll know which path to choose. If you didn't, you'll run down the wrong path, hit a dead end, and the Slasher of Veils will have his way with you.
It's not quite as frightening by today's standards, especially with the primitive graphics, but I was a kid when I first played this game. I stayed up all kinds of late and played it with the lights out. When I turned around and saw the Slasher of Veils standing there I about crapped my pants and hauled ass out of there.
My scariest moment that I have ver experienced was Resident Evil 2 on the Sony Playstation. When I first played the game I think I was in the 5th or 6th grade. I had gone over to my older sisters house to watch movies. My sister ended up leaving me all alone in the house when I discovered they had a playstation. The only game there I never played before was Resident Evil 2. I put it in and right away I was getting chills. I remember that I had all of the lights out in the house and the room I was in had no windows. The setting was perfect. I was in the police station and I had just walked by a window. All of the sudden I swore I saw a huge creature walking down the road right next to me on the other side of the glass. I was so caught in the setting that I freaked out. I immediately shut off the game console and actually left the house and ran for about a mile back to my own house. Every since that day I have had a passion for anything in the horror genre.
Okay, I know I'm going to get made fun of for this, but some of the most suspenseful and heart-stopping moments in gaming during my childhood were in Maniac Mansion. The game is not survival horror by any means, but does succeed in achieving an old B-movie/teen slasher flick tone. Also, this game is really freaking hard the first time you play it. The scariest part was never knowing if you were going to get busted by the Edisons--would Nurse Edna be in the kitchen? Would Weird Ed catch you when he came downstairs to get his package? And god help you if you had shut off the power and drained the pool and were now trying to make a mad dash back before the house blew up... totally heart-racing moments. Shut up, stop laughing.
Honorable mentions go to the Resident Evil dogs through the window (I will never forget nearly shitting my pants over that), and any time Pyramid Head makes an appearance in any Silent Hill game.
Oh, and Ridley: that sun is a jerk.
When i was back in elementary school i would play Toe Jam And Earl. One day i found the Level 0 by using the wings. C'mon a hot tub with some Hula girls and a lemonade stand, i never wanted to leave my Genesis console ever again. I was scared that this was the only game i would ever want to play again. Aside from the fact that i never wanted to leave that level again, toe jam and earl was my favorite Sega Genesis game of all time.
Scary stuff huh?!~
PS: Number 2 had to have been when Eternal Darkness "ended" about 1/4 of the way through, now i was more pissed than scared about that.. hahaha
When I was in middle school the first game that I was able to purchase myself on the original PlayStation was "Resident Evil". Me and my much to young brother were so excited to try it out.
We got home and ran up into the guest room. By this point it was dark out and I had school the next morning. We turned off the lights and turned on the game. After the loading screen and the big "RESIDENT EVIL" voice popped on I looked behind me to see that my brother was standing next to the door with his hand on the door knob. I continued and started the campaign. The cool live action video floored us and by this point my brother had opened the door.
Then came that climatic scene where you turn the corner and the zombie face strains its next to look at you, while eating off a corpse. I looked behind me and my brother was gone. I ran over to the PlayStation and shut it off and ran out of the room. We left the TV on.
Needless to say he slept with my mom and I was stuck in my room by myself..... it was harsh.... I didn't sleep. After that experience it was a day-time game only! haha.