All Hallows Eve is here, so now is the time to bring out the most frightening video games! There are a lot to choose from, varying from the ones that creep you out, make you jump, and of course make you yell, “WTF!” So to help you narrow it down to the best of the best, I’ve put together a list of the top five horror games to play on Halloween. So pop in one of these games, turn out the lights, and say your prayers, because tonight you’re in for a fright!

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Ghosts, demons, and zombies have been part of gaming since the beginning. Though they take on different forms in the hands of different developers, they all have one thing in common: they can no longer be counted among the living. Here is a ranking of some outstanding members. Drag your dead bodies off the floor and be recognized.

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Released last month, and just in time for Halloween, Konami has delivered the latest in the Silent Hill series. This newest entry to the Silent Hill family was not developed by original Team Silent, which has many avid fans debating if they should even bother with the game. With Double Helix Games at the helm, did they create a game that lives up to the legacy of the originals, or does it fall victim to the curse of Silent Hill?

To be fair, it’s a hard task to accomplish when you develop a game that someone else has established, and with such a well-developed series like Silent Hill, it’s even more difficult. In most cases, these types of games are critically panned for being unfaithful to the rest of the series. So let’s go over the good, the bad, and the ugly of this game and see how it stacks up against the rest of the series.

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When it comes to horror in games, there are a few things that are givens: it will likely be twisted, bloody, and terrifying. In other words, my kind of game. The genres of such games aren’t quite as predictable, however, ranging anywhere from RPGs to first-person shooters, and rightfully so; why limit a fun thing like terror to just one genre? Nevertheless, when looking at the overlying themes of these diverse games, trends have been emerging, giving everyone a glimpse of where things are possibly headed.

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Ever play a game where you could kill an entire town just for the fun of it… and you actually do? Are you the type of person that will make the evil choice every time you can, just because it’s more entertaining? Well, you’re not the only one. A lot of us do, and perhaps that fuels the undeserved rumors that we, as gamers, are violent and destructive people.

Now, just because I like to play Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and murder every character in a town does not make me a bad person. It just means that I find a healthy outlet for my inner rage. Everyone gets angry, and I find that if I blow things up in a video game, I am much less tempted to do something I would regret in real life. So that’s a good thing, right?

Well, maybe not.

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Dead Space is a game of many space helmets. Some try to classify it in the survival horror category, and while it is scary and you are trying to survive, it is much more than that. I would classify it more as an action horror space simulation. Let me break it down for you.

You play as Isaac, an engineer who has traveled to the Ishimura to help repair some things that went wrong. But he soon found the place overrun with Necromorphs (zombie-like creatures) and dead bodies and realized that he would be doing less repairing and more severing. Luckily, he has a couple of firearms to dispose of the Necromorph masses.

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