2008/10/31

--Clock Tower, great family of terror games--

Clock Tower is the title of an original saga of video games developed by Human, consists altogether of four games, one for snes, two for psone and one for ps2. It capably uses a fusion between the graphical adventure, the terror and the action. This brilliant saga belongs to the famous sort of the survival horror.

The first delivery is denominated: Clock Tower: The First Fear (1995), in snes.

Their sequels were the following ones:

-Clock Tower (Clock Tower 2 in Japan) (1997), in PlayStation.
-Clock Tower II: The Struggle Within (Clock Tower: Ghost Head in Japan) (1998), PlayStation.
-Clock Tower 3 (2002), in PlayStation 2.


Clock Tower: The first Fear (1995) SNES



A game in 2D able to create a horrible atmosphere, which maintains to the nervous but kind player to the advance. It has a very good graphical section, the remarkable animations and a made and showy affluent music.

Jennifer Simpson is the protagonist of Clock Tower. In the beginning of the adventure it will be transferred of a hospicio for orphans to a mysterious mansion of name “Barrows”. There it will be adopted by a solitary widower. But everything will be a terrible trap without sense, we will have to escape using what we find by the way.

A frightful and deformed assassin, carrier of giant scissors, name: “Scissorman” will persecute to Jennifer without giving rest him. The protagonist will not take arms, so we will have to arm itself of value and of thinking how to escape of him, using the different corners from the mansion. A estresante tension will seize of us at many moments of the adventure, mainly when the assassin steps on the heels to us.


Clock Tower snes opening:






Clock Tower Death Scenes snes:






Clock Tower (1997) PSONE


One is the second part of this fabulous saga of terror. Again it returns to appear Jennifer and Hellen Maxwell, we will be able to choose by one or another one. In the prologue we will choose the main personage. Altogether the game has three scenes. Between each scene, we will have to explore the city in search of tracks before happening to the following level.



Jennifer Simpson was adopted by Hellen Maxwell, (attending of a well-known psychiatrist), being the one in charge to investigate what it happened to him to Hellen in the mansion, to clarify the appearance of Scissorman.

Another one of the survivors of the nightmare was an amnesic boy of Edward name.

All those that surrounded it were assassinated by the crazy person of the scissors, in spite of the terror will have to do to him again in front.

You will be able to obtain different end, depending on the actions that you make in the game.


Clock Tower Psx video:





Clock Tower II (1998) PSX




CLock Tower II already belongs to the catalogue 3D of psx, concretely to the first generation, but with time it would acquire great fame due to his elaborated argument and the variety of end.
The characters also change and their graphs. We will have to make use of our brain and to hide to us in the suitable places.

The game has three chapters and about a thirteen end, to everyone more macabre, we will have to do to us with a guide if we want to discover them all.

The protagonist will be a girl, call: Alisa Hale, who suffers visions of assassinated people. It has an upheaval of double personality, within her inhabits manly Mr. Bates, being completely different to each other. His father had given him an amulet that when it uses it manages to annul the maleficent personality.

It will have to be used its dark personality to survive in the Tate house, where it resides next to a friend after leaving the psychiatric one. It will again come to the light the mysterious curse Maxwell.

Clock Tower 2 opening:






Clock Tower 2 gameplay:







Clock Tower III (2002) PS2



Capcom and Ubi Soft give this brilliant fourth delivery to us of the saga, true a classic one of the terror in the video games.

The protagonist is Alyssa, a Japanese adolescent with residence in London. It will be surprised by a mysterious man while it looks for its mother in an old mansion. One will be assaulted by strange facts, making him flee from the house.

We will have to confront great variety of puzles and to use the arms that we find to get rid of the frightful assassins, which always will attack in solitaire.

A called bar “Panic Gauge” will exist that will constantly indicate our state to us of panic in the adventure, increasing when we are attacked by the assassins. When the bar raises, Alyssa will considerably lose the control of his acts and abilities, placing to us in a very dangerous situation if we do not have well-taken care of.


Clock Tower 3 trailer: