Clock Tower 3 (Playstation 2)

The only enjoyable part of this game is the very cool opening video. I played this game for a grand total of three hours and then had to turn it off before I threw my PS2 out the window!

Puzzles are impossible to figure out if you spend all your time running away from the bad guy! The only thing you can do to fight back is throw holy water on him, which just stuns him for a few seconds after which he is right there on your butt again because he runs at the same rate you do (and apparently, throwing holy water on someone is a time-consuming event). This means that no matter how many screens you run accross you won't outrun him and if you make it to a hiding place (which are few and far between) you have to sit there and wait for him to go away before you can come out. Don't know about you, but my idea of digital fun is not hanging out in a phone booth. Even if you do manage to hide, when the bad guy gets close the "panic meter" rises and if it tops out you run from your hiding place, falling all over the place until you just stop to shake uncontrollably, giving the large man with the sledgehammer ample time to squish you against the pavement like a grape.

You run from the bad guy in real life, not in video games! That's why they're fun, you get to kick butt when, logically, you should run away. Yes, the story and puzzles that I did get to were good, and the graphics were impressive, but I just can't get past the sheer frustration of spending most of your time running away.

This is one of the only games where I screamed in fear. I played this game in the dark sitting in a chair, leaning forward. In parts of the game you are being chased by a killer, I ran into a bathroom and hid in one of the stalls... you could hear the killer looking for you... I heard a door close and then it was quiet... I slowly came out of the stall, looking around... as I head for the bathroom door.... AAAHHHHH !!! The killer jumps out from hiding in the bathroom and takes a swing at me. I was really scared for a second, I then laughed my a.ss off. I never heard of this game, I read some reviews here and decided to buy it. It was well worth the money. For any fan of Resident Evil or Scary movies this is a good buy. Lots of being chased by killers and outsmarting them and hiding. Twice I got stuck and went online and looked at a walkthrough of the game for quick answers, I didnt realise that you could press close to a wall and walk a thin leadge, or on the last level I missed sliding a candel stick to get to a door. A very enterting game, just like your favorite scary movie!