Euthanasia (572Mb)
This is probably the scariest game I’m posting for this weekend. It certainly rates a great scare! It’s a free Indie first person horror shooter game with 10 full playable levels. But what a FPS horror shooter game! It’s certainly the best game I’m posting for Halloween! It really is a tremendous and first rate FPS game!
You play as an ex-soldier wounded and crippled in a taxi accident, then confined to a wheelchair. You are assigned to a mental hospital after trying to kill yourself. You plea to be euthanized as you cannot cope with your very inhospitable physical and mental condition. At the clinic a compassionate doctor gives you a lethal injection, and after you die, this is what happens next! In that sleep of death...what dreams may come?
The doctor may have put you out of one misery, only to find you in an incomparably worse one, with no seeming end to it all! Ever! This is not one for children or the feint-hearted! It has powerful and very macabre scenes, graphic and grisly violence, disturbing images and sounds and use of weapons for very violent effect.
You find yourself in the despoiled remnant of a hospital where the most gruesome of things has taken place and might still be taking place. Do you ever have any hope of escaping the place? The surroundings are grim and the rooms dark and uninviting, and then who knows what ‘lives’ or abides and is lurking there around the next corner?! There are 4 types of weapons and a lot of mysteries and secrets to discover. As well as this, there are puzzles to solve as well as surviving the longest while you can!
The game’s level design and atmosphere is dark and scary from the outset, and the tension just doesn’t ease up right through the game. This scariness is present right through the game. There’s not one a single moment to relax, you always feel scared, haunted, it's like being enveloped in ever-deepening paranoia. Even in rooms with apparently no enemies, there’s always that expectation that these will appear at any time, and soon! There are zombies, zomboids and who knows what else you’ll have to to confront! Deeper and darker than your darkest dreams and nightmares!
Euthanasia has detailed environments, great heads-up displays, good weapons and weapon textures and a just about perfect sound design. The 3D first person environment is presented excellently. The soundtrack really enhances the tense and spine-chilling feel of the game. It’s an intensely creepy game with a fantastic deep and gloomy atmosphere! Lots of blood everywhere. And an atmosphere of extreme terror. Absolutely brilliant!
The graphics and sound are easily comparable to those in major commercial FPS releases. It runs in XP, Vista and Win 7 but you’ll need a P4 or equivalent processor running at 3GHz + and 256Mb of video RAM for the game to run properly.
It requires a graphics card that will support Pixel Shader 3, i.e. supports DirectX 9.0c, which most modern cards do. You’ll need to ensure your DirectX 9.0c is right up to date. Download the hotfix patch too (74Mb), to avoid unnecessary game crashes and make the game run properly, then copy and paste the extracted Euthanasia patch folder into the main game folder. Install does take a while.
Controls Move - 'W,A,S,D' keys ; Interact/Use 'E' key; Drop Item 'Q' key; Jump - 'Spacebar'; Run/Sprint Left 'Shift' key; Switch Weapon - Mousewheel; Choose Weapon '1,2,3,4' keys; holster weapon '0'(zero) key; Fire - Mouse 1; Aim/Zoom - Mouse 2; reload 'R' key. Use the ‘C’ key to crouch, and the ‘E’ key to read clipboards which contain useful information. You can also save your game by pressing the ‘Esc’ key during the game and switch from window to full screen by pressing the usual ‘Alt’ + ‘Enter’. A walkthrough is provided as a text file in the game folder.
Euthanasia feels creepy; disturbing, and is, by far, the most thrilling and really scary horror experience I've ever encountered in a freeware FPS game. I finish with one game designer’s comment - "I've played a LOT of scary games in my time, but not many... no, NONE were as scary as Euthanasia."
Turn the lights down low and scare the creeps and bejesuses out of yourself! Boy, this is a good one!
Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFlgEDUTB2U
Download HERE
Hotfix Patch Download HERE
