Here is a few stills, a poster, and a trailer for the upcoming physical horror film “Starry Eyes”
Determined to make it as an actress in Hollywood, Sarah Walker spends her days working a dead-end job, enduring petty friendships and going on countless casting calls in hopes of catching her big break. After a series of strange auditions, Sarah lands the leading role in a new film from a mysterious production company. But with this opportunity comes bizarre ramifications that will transform her both mentally and physically into something beautiful… and altogether terrifying.
Starring Alex Essoe, Noah Segan, Pat Healy, Amanda Fuller, Shane Coffer, Fabianne Therese and written and Directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer
MPI will release STARRY EYES on iTunes / OnDemand and in theaters November 14, 2014.
So I was going to do a video review of this on our Youtube channel but I just haven’t had the time to record or edit so I’ll just write my review here. Before the review I’ll like to wish all of you a Happy Halloween! Watch horror movies or do what I’ll do tonight, play horror games! Anyway lets talk about The Evil Within, this game had to be my most anticipated game of the year. I was so excited when I heard that Shinji Mikami was coming back to horror, that I could hardly wait. For those who don’t know who Shinji is, he is the original director of the Resident Evil games, he pretty much created Resident Evil but unfortunately his last one was Resident Evil 4 and I’m sure you can tell it was his last because all Resident Evil games after that were terrible. So Shinji has put together his own development team, partnered up with Bethesda and gave us The Evil Within.
In the game you play as Sebastian Castellanos, a detective of the Krimson city police department. After a dispatch call, Sebastian and his team go to investigate a gruesome massacre at the Beacon Mental hospital but is later lured into a nightmarish world. The first thing you’ll notice in the game is that the graphics are very well done. The lighting is probably the best I’ve seen in a horror game and it sets the mood very well in the environment around you. Character and monster designs are excellent, environments were detailed and gritty, and the gore physics oh the gore physics were awesome! If you love blood and guts then this game has it, but If you can’t handle the sight of it well then there is an option for you lower the blood but wheres the fun in that?
Character development in the game is good but VERY limited, you won’t learn shit about the characters unless you collect documents scattered throughout the game. Sebastian’s back story only unfolds through documents and letters you find and the same goes for the main antagonist Ruvik, who may I add is my favorite character in the game. He is voiced by Jackie Earle Haley and he does a fantastic job. Ruvik also acts as the nemesis of the game, if you have played Resident Evil 3 and you remember that nemesis would chase you at random moments of the game, well Ruvik will do the same. He will randomly spawn in the world and chase your character. The story of the game is very unique but It is confusing as hell, you will not know ANYTHING about the game on your first play through. You will need to research and play through the game several times to understand the story.
Now this game is BRUTAL it is hard, if you think this game is easy and you can get through it without dying well your wrong. You will die a lot in this game, it is punishing and some times just plain out fucking you up. Minor enemies of the game can be difficult, even in small groups they can over power you, I can say that I have died a total of 65 times in the entire game and there is a total of 15 chapters. There is an upgrade system in the game where you can upgrade your weapons, abilities, inventory, etc. In order for you to upgrade your character you will need ”green gel” which you get as rewards for defeating enemies and bosses.
For everything that is good about this game there are of course some minor things I didn’t much care for. First thing is that there is a season pass. Now I hate when companies announce downloadable content before the game is even released and they try to sell us a season pass. You can thank games like Battlefield with it’s Premium passes and Call of duty for my hatred of season passes. But the good thing about the Evil Within’s season pass is that you get three upcoming expansions for $20 so I have to admit that’s pretty good. The second thing that isn’t really a bad thing but it just threw me off is that the game is always in a widescreen mode. Like when you play a DVD and it’ll ask you if you want to watch in wide screen, well that’s what the game is doing. It has a bar up top and a bar at the bottom, not sure why they added this, I guess for a more cinematic experience but either way I hope they patch it to where you can disable it. Now the the thing that I’m really getting tired of seeing in horror games, especially Resident Evil is the damn chainsaw enemies. I’m so sick of chainsaw enemies I know that they were scary in Resident Evil 4 but they just aren’t scary anymore because Capcom milked that same tactic over and over again. I hope Shinji doesn’t bring back these stupid chainsaw enemies in a sequel. The final problem I had with the game is it’s lack off true horror. It may have a creepy atmosphere but for a veteran horror gamer like me, it just didn’t deliver that feeling of terror and fear of what will happen next.
Before I give my personal rating of the game I’m going to change how I rate these games. So now I will rate them from 1 to 10 so for the The Evil Within I’m going to give it a very high 8/10. It is a very good game and it is worth playing, especially if your a big Shinji Mikami fan like me.
You like jump scares? Do you find Chuck-E-Cheese characters creepy? well then this is for you! The sequel to the recently popular horror game Five Nights at Freddy’s is now on Steam Greenlight for everyone to cast their vote. I personally haven’t played the first game yet and not sure if I will, the game is mostly jump scares but the concept of the game is very interesting. Until this is greenlit and passed through which I’m sure will happen by tomorrow, then you can grab the first Five Nights at Freddy’s on Steam for $4.99
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I know I am 3 years late on doing this but I finally finished the F.E.A.R. series and would love to give my opinion on the 3rd installment. What can I say about F.E.A.R. that has already been said? Well its one hell of a unique game series, very interesting story and gameplay mechanics. Its one of the only games that does a good job balancing action and horror. I fell in love with the first two games the first one being my favorite, but I never got a chance to play the third game until recently.
F.E.A.R. 3 takes place directly after the 2nd game and you reprise the role of point man again (main character of fear 1). I’m very happy you play as point man again in the 3rd game, he is just too badass. There is also a 2nd protagonist you play as for co-op mode but to avoid spoilers I won’t talk much about him. Gameplay has changed since the first two games; they removed the badass cover system that you could perform in F.E.A.R. 2 like for example you could run up to a table and flip it over and use it as cover. They removed this feature in F.E.A.R. 3 which was a bummer, but added a different cover system which all you do is hide behind an object and quickly swap between different obstacles which is pretty cool. You no longer have to use medkits, you can now regenerate health which takes away some difficulty. Gameplay is more fast paced unlike others, there is little to no silent, walking segments like we’ve seen in the first two games. Each part of every level is full of fast pace action and it gets very repetitive.
The mystery of the story is no longer there. Everything about the campaign seemed too predictable, and not much of a mystery or being left in the dark like the first F.e.a.r. game did. Each interval got more annoying then the last, it felt like the game was forcing you to play co-op because if you didn’t then you are going to have a frustrating time with the intervals. They felt more like endurance test than levels. The co-op in the game isn’t too bad, it’s quite fun actually and even has some competitive aspect to it which is very unique. Both players can effect the outcome of the game by competing against each other in getting the highest score, by the end of the game both players scores will be calculated and the game will choose the best player and go with their ending.
F.E.A.R. is one of my favorite action/horror games and I hope they will continue the series in the future. With F.E.A.R. Online coming out soon on Steam I felt it was time for me to finish the main series and give my opinion on the final game. F.E.A.R. 3 is no where close to being as good as the first two F.e.a.r. games. It focuses way too much on action and it is too face pace, if anyone wants to try the F.E.A.R. games then please start with the first one. It has an amazing atmosphere, fun gameplay, and good story. My personal rating of F.E.A.R. 3 will have to be a 6/10 its a fun game but as for a true F.E.A.R. game compared the others, it didn’t meet the expectations.
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