The Suffering. PC Game now Freeware!
I'm a long-time fan of "Survival Horror" games since back to my younger
days of playing the first few Resident Evil games on my old Play
Station. Ahhh, the memories of playing late at night in my room sitting
in front of my TV with the lights low, controller gripped in hands, the
sound turned up a little while exploring some creepy zombie-infected
mansion or town, not knowing when the next onslaught of mindless
blood-thirsty creatures would jump out at me from the shadows. I was
hooked!
These engaging and thrilling games really got my imagination going, and
in the wee hours of the morning after playing for probably too many
hours, I would slink off to bed and have dreams of fighting off the
relentless zombies while trying to explore and find my way out of some
post-apocalyptic landscape.
Recently when browsing the internet, out of curiosity I was looking for
some Survival Horror type of games in which I could play on my PC.
I found some references to a game released by Midway in 2003, called
"The Suffering - Prison is Hell".
Checking out some reviews, it looked rather promising.
Here's a link to a good review of the game:
http://rr.xbox.ign.com/rrview/xbox/the_suffering/545746/54928/
I was looking for an online store in which I might be able to purchase
and download it. But after a little more research I was pleasantly
surprised to find out that Midway has now recently released this great
game as Freeware! Wow! Now I just had to find out where I can download
it from. After a bit more searching, I found a currently active
download link in which you can download the full game, over at
GamersHell site. The link to the page in which you can download "The
Suffering" game can be found at the following:
http://www.gamershell.com/download_33314.shtml
The file size is around 1.26GB, so hopfully you have a fast internet
connection (otherwise it could take a rather long time), and be sure
you have enough free space on your Hard-Drive before downloading.
Once you arrive at The Suffering download page on GamersHell, scroll
down that page a bit and you should see several buttons that link to
various download locations. Pick a link that may be closer to your
geographical location for hopfully a faster download connection.
So, what's the catch you ask? Why is Midway now giving away such a cool
game for free? Well, from what I can find, I guess it's one way in
which they can help to promote their more recently released game of
this series "The Suffering 2 - The Ties that Bind".
Also, appearantly, the now free version of The Suffering game is ad-sponsered.
How is this supposed to work? Well, after installing the game and
before launching it, you'll have to be sure your internet connection is
active otherwise you won't be able to play the game as supposedly upon
starting the game you'll see a short video-ad that streams from the
internet and the same upon closing the game. However in my case, I've
never once yet been bothered with any advertisments while playing the
game. Perhaps it has to do with my geographical location (in SE Asia)?
Or perhaps the streaming advertisements are no longer being served?
Also, after playing a couple of times without seeing any
advertisements, I had my Firewall software to simply "block" the
connection that the game was trying to make, and I can still play the
game fully without any problems.
You get to play a character who goes by the name of "Torque". He's a
prisoner on Death-Row, who may or may-not-have murdered his family. One
cool thing about the game is that by the choices you make during game
play, such as being helpful to other people in need or brutally killing
them, will later have an affect on the story and portraying if Torque
is actually really guilty or not of murdering his family.
The game is brutal and bloody and not recommended for younger players
or players who don't want to see graphic violence in a game. The game
is a few years old now, but still fairly current with good graphics,
sounds and playability. The mouse control seemed a little "choppy" at
times, but after a while of playing it didn't really bother me much.
Overall I'd give the game a score of 7 out of 10. And hey, for a
Freeware PC game, it's probably one of the best I've played.
Enjoy! :)
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