Science picks Dead Space 2 as 360's scariest game
by Justin McElroy 
on Sep 8th 2011 7:56PM
You could rely on your friends, game critics or helpful GameStop sales associates to tell you which games are scary, but that's so two-thousand-and-late. We're sticking with science, thanks to this helpful feature from
Gamasutra, which used player feedback and biometric data to rate not only the most frightening games, but their most horrifying moments. [
Update: The study itself was conducted by
Vertical Slice, so if you're looking for dream jobs in the research field, that's where we'd start.)
A victor was picked, but some of the study's other conclusions were more interesting. For instance: The threat of combat was typically scarier than combat itself. Also, gore, while provocative, wasn't, particularly frightening. The game that understood those concepts the best? Well, that would be
Dead Space 2, which took the brass ring over
Condemned,
Alan Wake and
Resident Evil 5.
Presumably,
Sherlock Holmes: Nemesis was
not in the running.
