Resident Evil publisher Capcom’s Kitchen “scariest game ever”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Resident Evil publisher Capcom has quietly waltzed into the virtual reality space at E3 2015 and scared us silly with Kitchen, a purposefully understated title for a short but visceral slice of in-your-face horror, Digital Spy reports.

Now, Capcom is being a bit coy over what's contained within its 1080p, 60fps VR showcase for PS4, with vague phrases such as "unprecedented level of sensory immersion" and "an unsettling backdrop for a tense scenario", with no images whatsoever and all photography banned.

“So if you're wanting to save the scares for yourself and are going to try and get on this tech demo in your own time, this is where we give you a spoiler warning. Don't read on past the logo if you don't want to know what happens…

Still with us? Well, while Sony London Studio's The Deep unsettled with its shark cage attacks and Alien: Isolation made us shut our eyes more than once on Oculus Rift, Kitchen has been scaring people silly at E3 today.

Headset on, you find yourself in a dirty old kitchen, facing a fridge, tied to a chair, wrists bound together. You waft the DualShock 4 controller and your hands try feebly to escape your bonds to no avail. In a doff of the cap to Saw, what looks like a dead body in front of you starts to move, revealing themselves to be a disorientated friend who soon tries to cut your ties with a big knife – waggling it right in your face, for good measure – before fumbling it.

But before you can curse his ineptitude, a demonic, long-haired woman is slicing him aside in front of you, before leaping into your face, Ring style, and plunging the knife into your thigh. She pulls him out of the room, with sounds emanating from round the corner that you'd rather not know about. As you look feverishly from side to side for a way to escape – maybe you could grab the knife? Are there tools in that drawer? – a head comes flying round the corner, landing at your feet and oozing blood over your shoes. It's your mate's, obviously.

Again, you look around, hearing her breathing but not knowing exactly where she is. The pauses seem to go on for an age, even though the demo is only minutes long. Finally, as you look around, the woman's bloody hands are on your face, the knife is up and you're plunged into darkness...

So, VR has its first torture porn demo. Indeed, after my go, in which I flinched and guffawed as you should with all good horrors, I hung around to see how it was received by others. Those who dared to have a go – and many gave it a swerve after word started to get out – made for some of the most amusing reactions yet seen from VR, a Slender-esque procession of jump scares and laughter.

A headset's isolating capacity to inflict your own personal horror on you, whatever that may be, has never been more clear. Come on Capcom, give us a full game of this stuff,” Digital Spy said.