Most atmospheric game

[Cowabungaa]

WoW tops my list. Blizzard put so much detail in that game, combined with that fantástic background music makes for such an incredibly immersive game, despite of the graphics. Duskwood made me feel genuinely uncomfortable after a while, everything is taken care of: cobwebs in the trees, little flowers on the ground are covered in evil looking vines, the ominous music, the knowledge that at any time you can be ambushed by the Horde (one time I managed to hide and escape from one that was like 40 levels higher, had my heart thumping in my throat), everything is just perfect.

I loved it to death, than WotLK came and topped all that. My gods, Grizzly Hills...even when I had my flying mount in Northrend, I would always walk through Grizzly Hills, never fly over it. And that's a game I stopped playing nearly a year ago, and I still have to find one that tops WoW in terms of atmosphere.

A little list for a shared second place:
- AoC
- Bioshock
- Half Life 1, 2 and episodes
- FEAR
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- Uncharted 1 and 2
- L4D and L4D2
- Fallout 3
- Oblivion
- Metroid Prime 1 and 2 (never had the fortune of playing 3)
- Starfox Adventures
- Super Mario Sunshine
- Portal
- All 3D Zelda games, and especially Majora's Mask
- Assassin's Creed 2 (1...not so much for me)
- Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

 

[David_G]

Bioshock, Dead Space and Silent Hill 1-3.

 

[SonicKoala]

Lol well it seems Bioshock and Dead Space seem are the MVPs in this category, and I'm inclined to agree. I stand by my opinion that Dead Space wasn't so much scary as it was a game that loved to go "BOO!!!" whenever it got the chance, but it made you all the more nervous when walking around the ship, and some of the "BOOs" were shit-your-pants scary. Bioshock, on the other hand, really took you to another world, and it did it so well.

However, my number one spot goes to Silent Hill 2 - the first time I went into the apartment and got the flashlight was probably the single scariest moment I've ever experienced while gaming - it took me several weeks before I decided to play it again. Even then, the game always delivered on the atmosphere front. Silent Hill 3 did an awesome job at that too.

 

[Mamawoopie]

Bioshock, mainly due to its fantastic setting and story.

Dragon Age: Origins, for its immersive story.

This old game called Titanic where you had to solve a bunch of mysteries before the ship sank was another one when I was young, I remember losing hours upon hours in that game, but i've never seen it since I lost the discs.

 

[Purple Shrimp]

Chess