Last night I don't think I couldn't have been more freaked out when playing Alone in the Dark, and what made it so great is that it wasn't any scares from scripted moments in the first half of the game.
This was around Episode 6 to 7 when they let you loose on Central Park to destroy 'The Roots of Evil' in order to continue on with the main storyline. There was actually a good couple moments where I was running scared, bleeding, and not even twenty bullets in magnum (ammo and leftover combined) stock was left.
1.) There is a section of the park where a couple roots of evil are situated within a small ranger station on the easternmost side: containing three roots, rooms full of lockers and ample supplies, a med station, and one room with a prison cell. Shortly after finding a glass bottle with some flammable liquid, I poured some on the small amount of ammo left for my 44. Magnum and proceeded to bust down the metal door blocking entrance.
The hallway was dark, and with little battery life left in my flashlight I proceeded into the building...to discover Humanz pulling themselves out of the ground and rushing me! I fired some bullets off and killed the weaker of the two by burning their fissures, but its companion smacked me into the wall. Pushing myself off the ground and my enemy making its way over to pummel me I rush into a room and snag some mosquito spray, burning him outright with the flamethrower combination. "It's over" I say triumphantly, and walk over to a tight area for some supplies only to hear more grunting and get attacked once again. After nearly soiling myself I burn this enemy and proceed with business. (So it may not sound as bad as I describe, but play at 3 in the morning in complete darkness)
2.) After burning all the roots that you can prior to uncovering the secrets at the Old Castle, I searched for transport in order to get back to my destination in one piece. Running past a previous point for a root, I notice about four to five Humanz wandering around awaiting some unlucky prey, but due to my distance in the fog they fail to notice my existence as I run from afar to a taxi on my mini-map. Unfortunately, one indeed did see me and the whole party followed suit...which I failed to notice until I get into the car and find that my door is ripped off while I am in the process of hot-wiring it.
Pulled out of my escape vehicle and thrown around like a ragdoll, I dash for dear life to another vehicle because the only thing in my inventory at this point is twelve fire bullets in a handgun and an empty plastic bottle. Running across a field I get into another car, hot-wire it, and just as I start to drive one jumps on the hood (which I shake). But was it over? Oh no, one decides to smack the tail end of my car and send it flying across the field 360 degrees, and at this point because I'm so terrified I floor it and hope that never, ever, happens again. Or do I?
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3.) After returning to the Old Castle and locating the symbols placed all around the premises I climb to the roof to discover one of the stronger Humanz, the seven foot tall enemies that launch projecticles and punch as hard as they are to eliminate. After defeating it I suffered so much damage to one cut that it proceeded to bleed, and the timer counted down. Finishing the episode and continuing anyway, I still had to mend the cut with a bandage. Now you don't know tension until having to curb blood loss, finding a car to hot-wire, and then the closest place with a med station is blocks away (mentioned in #1) while trying to drive through wreckage and Humanz pummeling the car.
Reaching the place I previously ventured into, the door was somehow blocked again with a metal door. And with no flammable bottles around I used a nearby vehicle and ignited the gas tank to bust the door down. Guess what? Humanz came out of the ground and I fended them off with the remaining med-spray I had, and bandaged my wounds with seconds to spare. Good stuff.
4.) Many times over the course of driving through the park I was attacked and/or flipped over wreckage, and managed to leap out of the vehicle seconds before it careened off the fissure and into the abyss. This happened a good amount of times and I felt rather accomplished during this and all the other instances I had to use everything around me to survive.
"Prepare for a pride obliterating b*tchslap."
