It’s all done about as well as it can possibly be done in Friday the 13th: The Game.Įach counselor has attributes that make them better at different tasks that fit in line with their horror movie trope. The way music and sounds are used to not only create the appropriate atmosphere, but also enhance the quality of the gameplay by instilling fear in the counselor players. Adding to this is the game’s fantastic soundtrack.
It really does play out a lot like the movies, featuring lots of cheap scares that you can’t help but chuckle about after you’ve caught your breath. It’s the little things such as the lack of immediate voice communication, jump scares that Jason can cause such as killing the lights, breaking windows, and popping up literally out of nowhere, that contribute to a “funny” survival horror experience. Being alone in the woods where Jason could be lurking anywhere with no one to talk to is a dreadfully scary experience. A nice touch is the blocking out of voice communications unless you are either within talking distance of another character, or you found a walkie-talkie to communicate with other people whom have also found it. Successful teams should have someone running items across the map, someone that can repair equipment, and a few people capable of protecting those critically important counselors from Jason. Regardless of whether you want to fix the boat, the car, or take a stab at actually killing Jason (the most difficult win condition to achieve), everything requires teamwork. This is how every game will play out more or less, with three different possible starting maps to vary things up a bit.Īlthough there is just this one game mode to play on, the complexity of the objectives for the counselors is appreciated. Counselors try to carefully gather the materials they need to win the game – such as collecting parts for a boat or a car, or radioing in the police – or just hide while Jason looks for everyone so he can kill them before they succeed. It sounds like it could get repetitive, and depending on your level of enjoyment of the subject material (slashers) and the genre (survival horror), it can be.Ĭounselors get placed randomly throughout the map, and from there it’s basically a game of hide and seek with Jason. Eight other players are teenage counselors that need to either escape (via various conditions) or survive long enough to win the game. One player plays as Jason with a singular goal: kill as many people as you can. It’s a very flawed and silly game that is for fans of the movies, by fans of the movies. This most recent game, based on the long running series of slasher films featuring legendary killer Jason Voorhees, appropriately titled Friday the 13th: The Game, is similar in that it isn’t designed to be a GOTY candidate quality game. The Friday the 13th franchise in general has never striven to be highbrow entertainment.
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