10 Video Game Tutorials That Played Cruel Tricks On Players
3. Dead Space 2 - Necromorph Chase
Usually, horror video games offer players a moment of relative safety at the beginning so that they can learn the controls and mechanics without any added stress getting in the way of their learning. Even Resident Evil: Village allowed Ethan to explore his house before he’s ambushed by a horde of werewolves.
Alongside acting as tutorials, opening sections in horror games are likewise the perfect place for developers to establishing tone and start building suspense. However, one game which doesn’t honour this unspoken grace period is sci-fi horror Dead Space 2.
Taking place three years after the events of the first game, the sequel opens with protagonist Isaac Clarke being released from an asylum on the Sprawl space station. But before rescuer Franco can explain what’s happening or release him from his straitjacket, he’s immediately killed by a necromorph in grizzly fashion.
Without a moment to digest anything about what's going on, players must helplessly free from the swarming aliens, the button prompt to run being their only guidance for what to do.
At least with a tutorial as unexpectedly nerve shredding as this, players would become better prepared for the harrowing sci-fi terror that awaits them.