Best horror game on the NDS ! I Love this game! Awesome!
User Rating: 9.5 | Dementium: The Ward DS
You might think this is a Resident Evil or Silent Hill-style game with all the horror going on and the fact that, for the first chapter of the game, you only have a flashlight and a nightstick at your disposal. But once you snag the pistol, it's all about first-person shooting. And Renegade Kid's engine pulls off this style excellently: the game runs at 60 frames per second, allows for several on-screen enemies at once, and the touch screen sensitivity allows for quick "mouselook" movement that never feels too tight or loose. The visual style is also outstanding: the lighting effects and texture work in Dementium: The Ward are pretty special when you consider the Nintendo DS capabilities - the flashlight effect might not match what other developers have done on more powerful system, but it's a believable technique that's pulled off better than anything seen on same-level hardware.
It's pretty amazing that, for a system that's been out for three years now, there have been very few first-person shooters made for it. The Nintendo DS is a prime (no pun intended) system for the genre, what with its touch screen that can easily mimic the precise movement of mouse controls. Dementium: The Ward fills that void nicely - it's appropriately gory (it is a shooter, after all) but also adds an element of mystery to the whole thing. Some design issues do get in the way a tiny bit, but not so much that you'll hate on the game…and unless you've got the expectations of a PC shooter fan, it's hard to not be impressed with what
