What a nice surprise this game is. Review as short as the game: Masterful narration. A master class on how to tell a story. Absolutely stunning. And let me remark how insanely difficult it can be to get such a short story to such a perfect balance. The characters, the pacing, the atmosphere... everything just nails it.
And why? Because it pretty much feels like a geniune nightmare. The repetition, the oppresive atmosphere, the pointless turns of events... The thing you feel when you have a nightmare. The slow pace is a welcome addition, and jumpscares are just sprinkled here and there, the game doesn´t want to scare you the cheap way. It want you to plunge deeper and deeper into madness, and what at first scares you big time then it becomes your standard travel mate. You end up finding up horrible stuff pretty normal, and at the same time true horror emerges from below... or maybe it´s you who is sinking down. That´s the true selling point of Layers of Fear: a convincing brush with madness though terror.
Awesome. When it was first published it was probably the game I played most. The first Carmageddon was histerically funny, so violent it stopped being so and became goofy, but this one is even better. Maybe the graphics are not brilliant, but the package is perfectly balanced. In a game that focuses on being able to do the stupidest, most absurd things it´s fundamental to have responsive controls and an environment which allows you to do whatever you want. This is exactly what happens in Carmageddon 2, and this is what makes it stand out. In fact, the game gets even better if you compare it with its successor, the TDR2000. All in all, this game is like a joke that never gets old. It´s hysterically funny, and every time you go back to it you get a different experience.
