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It's Halloween season (my favorite season!) and to celebrate I decided to kick off our Top 7 List section with the 7 scariest games. Now remember, these lists are only my opinion, they are in no way an official lists or have anything to do with sales numbers and charts. So let's begin!

1. Doom 3
Everyone remembers Doom, the game that you played in the dark. Doom was creepy for it atmosphere, it's "end of the world" feeling with such darkness and it's unnerving soundtrack. Monsters seemed to come out of nowhere, you only caught a glimpse as you frantically looked around with your flashlight. Doom didn't play with your head like some of the other games I will mention, but it definitely mastered the loud noise that made you jump effect. 2. Ill Bleed
Ill Bleed was one of my all time favorite games on the Sega Dreamcast, I can only hope and pray for a sequel. Ill Bleed was a great game because it played with all of your senses, and you had to use your senses to make it through each story. The game was that of a cheesy 70's flick, and it was a hell of a lot of fun to play. Scary monsters, creepy soundtrack, and armed with little or no weapons makes for an awesomely scary game.

3. Eternal Darkness
Eternal Darkness is one of my favorite games on the Gamecube. Eternal Darkness didn't scare you with monsters and zombies, instead they used the psychological thriller approach. Strange sounds, someone knocking on your door but no ones there, footsteps upstairs, and the fact that at any point you could lose grip on sanity and the game will literally go crazy. I absolutely love the dark and foreboding feeling of this game, makes you wonder if it's just the game or are you actually losing your head.

4. Resident Evil
Ah, Resident Evil, most gamers first love in the survival horror genre. I liked the first Resident Evil because it was so new, I mean how many of you still remember throwing your controller in fright the first time one of those zombie dogs jumped through the window?! I still remember the moment like it was yesterday, I love the other Resident Evil titles, but none of them got me the way the first one did, you always remember your first right? :)

5. Silent Hill 2
Silent Hill 2 was a great game and great next step for the scary game enthusiasts. The storyline was a little better than the first one and monsters seemed to be smarter. Not to mention Pyramid Head, just the size of his blade and the sound of it on the concrete. It will be hard to top this Silent Hill in the newer installments to come.

6. Silent Hill
The first Silent Hill holds a special place in my heart, it had everything a scary games needs, it had the jump in your seat moments like Resident Evil, it had the creepy environments like I had never seen before and it had some of the most unnerving sound effects and music I have ever heard. To this day, hearing the static from the Silent Hill radio still gives me the creepy crawlies. There were moments in the game while searching for more ammo or health that I would ask myself if it was really worth it to go through that next door because what could be on the other side would scare the hell out of me. Silent Hill was scary and uncomfortable to play, but one hell of a game, easily one of my all time favorites.

7. Fatal Frame
Lastly, at the top of my Scariest Games list comes Fatal Frame. Nothing has ever made me as uncomfortable and actually given me nightmares like Fatal Frame did. When you give me a game that puts me in an abandoned old house full of ghosts with no eyes, or ropes marks around their necks, or even broken necks hanging oddly to the side, a damn scary soundtrack that involves giggling children, and to top it all off I am only given a camera to defend myself with, then you have a terrifying mixture for pure scary fun! But you don't have time to be scared in Fatal Frame, you are expected to keep calm because at any moment a ghost could pop out in front of you and you have seconds to capture their image, so no throwing your controller in this game. Also the cut scenes were gruesome; one cut scene you see a girl blinded when her elders shove a mask onto her face with spikes through the eyeholes, or another cut scene when you see a girl quartered when she is tied to a rock bed and ropes are wrapped around her ankles, wrists and even her neck. Oh the blood, the blood! I love this game!

Hope you liked my very first Top 7 list! And once again, these are only my opinions, nothing official. I tried to judge the games on all aspects and not just cheap thrills. If you haven't played some of these games, give them a try, I kinda promise you won't be disappointed.

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