Scariest Game Level Ever?

[crusha_aa]

I agree with the AVP2 Marine levels. Those were friggin scary.
I thought the prison level in Silent Hill 2 was probably the scariest thing i have ever experienced in a game. Especially two parts, one where your in a big room with a hangmans noose in the center and the sound effects of something running around the perimeter (but nothings there!). Secondly the corridor with a really scary sound effect in one of the prison cells, but again, nothings there.

The 'Return to the Cathedral' level in Thief: Dark Project was pretty scary too.
I keep hearing things about Shalebridge in Thief: Deadly Shadows and was thinking of buying that game for that level alone. I loved the way the Cathedral level in TDP scared you with sound and the fact you suck at combat (being a sneaky game and all) so you REALLY didn't want to be found. So if Shalebridge manages to be scarier then i think i may just poop myself.

Come to think of it, it seems games (and i guess films too) are scarier when you DONT know whats there.

 

[Firenz]

the whole of the marine campaign in AvP (the original)

(That scuttle sound still makes me want to back pedal and spin around with a flamethrower)

EDIT: or the Hotel level in Vampire the Masquerade. Or the Shalebridge Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows

EDIT 2: @ My honorable friend in the above post: if you're thinking about buying thief for the Shalebridge cradle do it, especially as the designer (can't remember his name right now)is one of the leads in Bioshock 2 and did the best Bioshock area (Christ i can't even remember what that's called.... must be getting old)

 

[swytchblayd]

That first ***** from Fatal Frame 2.

Seriously, the first time I saw her face-to-face, I literally screamed, and figuratively pissed myself. And I had the lights on @-@

Anyhow, freakiest moments would have to go to Eternal Darkness... those moments when the volume goes down, fly shadows appear on your screen, or your character dies because a thousand enemies appear out of nowhere... sheer genius freakout X_X Too bad Silicon Knights seems more interested in developing crappy pseudo-Norse-techno-action-RPGs than ED2 >.>

EDIT: I've never thought of the first Silent Hill as being scary, just more like "what the hell is that over there in the fog/darkness?" creepy, especially since your flashlight only goes so far in the dark... Though there was that one part where it went off completely... jez that's annoying when it happens in ANY game.

 

[Jirlond]

the whole of the marine campaign in AvP (the original)

(That scuttle sound still makes me want to back pedal and spin around with a flamethrower)

EDIT: or the Hotel level in Vampire the Masquerade. Or the Shalebridge Cradle in Thief: Deadly Shadows

Swap those two around & you have my vote.

The V:tM hotel still scares the shit out of me on my 4 th replay of it. The timing & atmosphere & emptiness of it just works a treat.

AvP First one (Second was shit utterly console manga kiddy shit) built up Marine tension to such increbidle levels I dont ever remember the last two parts all I remember is sprinting for switches & emptying every gun I had into thin air.

I also love the department store level in Condemned.

Spoiler

Honestly if those dummies had attacked me Id have shit my pants & walked away from my PC

Your spoiler describes me at the start of the Dr Who exhibit I went to.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

The early levels in Condemned 2.

The nigthmare areas full of black organic goo all over the walls...

The doll factory. That was some creepy shit, especially if you made the mistake up picking up a doll as a weapon...

 

[Goldeneye103X2]

The whole of doom 3 is just messed up and creepy.
The entire demo of condemned 2 is also shit-my-pants scary.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Ravenholm wasn't scary. At all. It was just a little creepy at the start, but after you get past the first two huts, it just becomes fun, because of the gravity gun. At the end it's quite annoying, because you always run out of ammo, and the zombies just keep coming.

That... except I never ran out of ammo... used the gravity gun pretty much the entire time...

FEAR (and Extraction Point/Perseus Mandate) is the only game that has ever scared me pretty bad... Doom 3 wasn't any worse then Ravenholm was... Dead Space hasn't really been that scary either...

 

[resultsmayvary]

Use the search bar.

Also I don't get why so many people say Ravenholm was scary. Yeah it a little creepy, but not scary.

Im new be nice to me.

You tell em' Rossy. Don't let them walk all over you.

Scariest level huh? I guess I'll go with...I don't know really. The sewer area of the castle in RE4, where all the bug guys are, that can be creepy. The beginning of BioShock is too. I'll go with something from Silent Hill 2 though. Doesn't matter what part, just pick something and put me down for that.

On a side note, I laughed pretty hard at him saying "I'm new be nice to me" anyone else think that was funny as hell? I don't mean it to be mean, I'm not laughing at him, just found it amusing.

 

[scnj]

I thought the prison level in Silent Hill 2 was probably the scariest thing i have ever experienced in a game. Especially two parts, one where your in a big room with a hangmans noose in the center and the sound effects of something running around the perimeter (but nothings there!).

If I remember correctly, it's the sound of a horse.

 

[Jon Etheridge]

I'd have to go with the first couple levels of Alien vs. Predator 2 from the marine campaign. There is *nothing* to fight that entire time, but what you hear and *don't* see is what gets to you.

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This. That game had me freaked out when I first played it. I hope the new one is as good. :/

 

[Grahwo]

half life..
Blast pit..
12yo..
Piss scared of the massive uhm.. pokers.

 

[Skarvig]

In Resident Evil1, in a bedroom where a clip lies on the bed. When you take it a zombie rushes out of the closet. Well I was like 10, and I was scared to my bones.
RE1 is still a game I'm really scared of.

 

[spoonish]

anyone been through 'they hunger'? that was pretty freaky

after that, i carried an umbrella with me for the next few weeks or so. sad, i know.

 

[GoblinOnFire]

Shalebridge Cradle from Thief III. Don't want to talk about it. WE DON'T GO TO SHALEBRIDGE CRADLE!

seconded!

 

[crusha_aa]

anyone been through 'they hunger'? that was pretty freaky

after that, i carried an umbrella with me for the next few weeks or so. sad, i know.

I remember playing through the first part of it back in the day when it was just out and finding it really scary. I should really go back and play it all.

I just remembered i used to find the 'Okaar' region of Outcast kinda scary when i was a kid, and 'Okasankaar' had some enemies called Zeedog that were basically tall plant creatures that would burst up from the water when you weren't expecting it. Used to scare the crap out of me, but thats really a 'holy crap i wasn't expecting that' kinda scare.

 

[joe182]

It has to be the infamous 'zombie dog hallway' in Resi 1... If you didnt jump at that, you're not human.

 

[skcseth]

The entire DLC of Point Lookout. FINALLY! A scary game and it wasn't even meant to be scary.