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The World of Scary Video Games - A Study in Videoludic Horror (Paperback)
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The World of Scary Video Games - A Study in Videoludic Horror (Paperback)
Series: Approaches to Digital Game Studies
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As for film and literature, the horror genre has been very popular
in the video game. The World of Scary Video Games provides a
comprehensive overview of the videoludic horror, dealing with the
games labelled as "survival horror" as well as the mainstream and
independent works associated with the genre. It examines the ways
in which video games have elicited horror, terror and fear since
Haunted House (1981). Bernard Perron combines an historical account
with a theoretical approach in order to offer a broad history of
the genre, outline its formal singularities and explore its
principal issues. It studies the most important games and game
series, from Haunted House (1981) to Alone in the Dark (1992- ),
Resident Evil (1996-present), Silent Hill (1999-present), Fatal
Frame (2001-present), Dead Space (2008-2013), Amnesia: the Dark
Descent (2010), and The Evil Within (2014). Accessibly written, The
World of Scary Video Games helps the reader to trace the history of
an important genre of the video game.
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