![]() It’s a stark contrast to that chaotic intro, letting the violence I just witnessed soak in. Shortly after, I wake up in an eerily quiet French bunker. That sequence acts as a dark prelude that successfully colors the more traditional Amnesia gameplay that ensues. ![]() Though it’s a far cry from anything I’ve seen from Amnesia before, the stressful claustrophobia of it all still fits with Frictional’s atmospheric brand of horror. It’s the kind of action sequence that I expect from games like Battlefield 1. I’m a soldier in World War I running through the trenches, pistol in hand, as bombs and gunfire ring out overhead. ![]() When Amnesia: The Bunker begins, I find myself in a surprisingly cinematic situation. Though I’m terrified of the unkillable monster that’s always stalking me from the shadows, the true horror comes from what Amnesia has to say about wartime PTSD - a vital subject that most proper war games try to keep locked in the dark. Amnesia: The Bunker, developer Frictional Games’ most ambitious horror title yet, turns an abandoned World War I bunker into a sprawling haunted house. So perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised that the first horror game that would accomplish that for me in 2023 is, in fact, a new Amnesia game. That trend always leaves me looking for more cerebral horror games, ones that scratch the same itch as 2010’s psychologically unnerving Amnesia: The Dark Descent. There’s a slew of zombie games, for instance, that trade in sharp social commentary for mindless shooting. ![]() Though the horror genre has a rich history of using monsters as stand-ins for something truly horrifying, scary video games aren’t always so thematically ambitious. ![]()
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