It's no fun being a biologist when all your friends keep dying.

User Rating: 10 | Ring DC
By Lokar | Review Date:
This game is based on the Japanese horror film, which spawned an American verison and its sequel. Just as in the original, a mysterious videotape crops up and whoever watches it dies within a week. However, in this title, you play as a CDC scientist, not a young student or her mother. Which is good, because you'll need all the expertise you can get.

Meg Rainman (nice pun) roams the halls of the facility in search of clues to the sudden raft of dead bodies. At one point, she fights-- I'm not kidding-- a gorilla. Weapon selection is very important, as is timing. Be careful of your health level. You don't want to have to try the same fight scene 100 times. Your character transitions in and out between reality and a strange land of dreams. Remember where you are, because there really aren't any maps to help you out. This is one of the last survival games to do that. I had to take notes.

Then again, making your own luck might constitute-- gasp!-- thinking, and we don't want that to happen, do we?

The Ring was an unusual scheme in a land of copycats. For that alone, it earns my respect.

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