

The Triggerman (a half-man, half-spider, half-lots-of-guns thing) and the Arsonist (a weird thing on fire, a bit like the imps from Doom), as well as some old favourites such as Burrowers and Marksmen. So, what's changed? Not a whole lot - everything that made the first game great is here. Not exhilarating like riding a rollercoaster, but exhilarating like watching Evil Dead or Event Horizon - the sort of paranoiainducing gore that makes you squeal and throw cushions at the television. Naturally, that doesn't last long and you're soon launched back into the perverse and blood-splattered gameplay that made the original so exhilarating. Ties That Bind picks up where the first left off, seeing you back behind bars and relatively happy considering you're no longer being hounded by fleshdevouring demons.

So instead, I spend my time being frightened of Ties That Bind, sequel to that great game that you probably didn't buy - The Suffering. That said, I can sleep soundly knowing they're both fabrications of a despotic government, designed to keep the masses under control through fear and alcopops. There Are Two things in this world that truly terrify me: the Judderman from that Metz advert a few years back and global warming.
