

With Amnesia, you're also getting an engaging first-person adventure game that could have stood by itself had developer Frictional Games chosen to go that way.Īmnesia's plot alone is intriguing enough. Amnesia doesn't, which is one of the bigger reasons why it's the scariest game I've played in years.Īmnesia's also unusual for a horror game, which as a genre tends to put horror first, panic second, creepiness third and the actual game fourth. Then again, Mirror's Edge also gave you the option of fighting instead of running. It nails running away like Mirror's Edge nailed running away, which is a bit of a damning indictment of the latter game, since it was about a sexy free-runner leaping and rolling through the rooftops of a futuristic cityscape, while Amnesia is about a mentally unstable man fumbling doors open and squatting in cupboards.
