With the Survival horror concerns it a category of the computer games. In this Subgenre of the Action Adventures and Ego Shooter the player by investigation and the release from mysteries must find its way by a gruselige environment and survive the attacks of uncanny creatures. Weapon use is thereby possible, however by ammunition scarceness and provisionalness of the weapons (e.g. an old heater pipe) intentionally not as effective as in a usual Actionspiel, so that not fighting is the center of attention actually, but "naked surviving".

If the play action from the third person perspective is shown, a horror-film-similar camera guidance is usually used, which shows the happening from different firm attitudes. The dead angles often developing thereby increase thereby the disconcertion Spielers.Als opponent in Survival horror plays find one often Zombies or other monsters, often also surreal working, nightmareful natures, which extract themselves from a more exact classification (for example in silents Hill series). Background stories often take up topics from the broad spectrum of the modern horror literature.

Category representative in third person perspective

• Alone in the Dark row of Infogrames
• Resident Evil row of Capcom
• Silent Hill row of Konami
• Project Zero row of Tecmo
• Parasite Eve row of Squaresoft
• Clock Tower row of human Entertainment
• The Blair Witch Project row of Take 2 Interactive
• Forbidden Siren of SCEA
• Obscure

Category representative in Egoperspektive

• System Shock row of Looking Glass of Studios
• Call OF Cthulhu: Dark Corners OF the Earth of Headfirst Productions (2005)
• Condemned: Criminal Origins of monolith Productions (2005)

Background

The name Survival horror probably developed for Enter the survival horror"Â… "("enter the survival horror"Â… "), which is faded in during the loading procedure with the first part of the resident Evil row (1996) from the sentence ".

Alone into the Dark (1993) is generally regarded as first Survival horror title, although also some Transylvania regard the play as Apple the II (1986) for the Urvater of the category.

Related links

• Gamingredients' "History OF Survival horror "(2002)
• JoyStick101.org: "Exploring the Survival horror category "
• ODP: Survival horror category

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