If you haven’t played The Suffering, I would urge you to do so immediately. Frightening, vicious, original, and uncompromising, alongside Rockstar’s Manhunt, it’s the closest mainstream games – at least during the ’00s – came to a real, sleazy, lowdown horror where bloodshed is measured in gallons. A third-person monster shooter, it’s a natural progenitor to Resident Evil 4, but the pacing is closer to Dead Space. It’s also set in a prison, and as such feels like a distant ancestor to The Callisto Protocol. Nevertheless, both The Suffering and its sequel, The Ties That Bind, are about to be delisted, and vanish from the PC.
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