A barmy merging of genres where you can play with balls made from decapitated heads – here’s a release that could promote an indie developer to the premier league
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ometimes it’s the weirdest combinations that go best together: bacon and ice-cream, pilchards and custard, erm … Alison Hammond and Dermot O’Leary. But surely no one has thought of putting Silent Hill and Fifa 98 together before now.
Billed as “the world’s first online survival horror football game,” Fear FA 98 (pronounced Fear-fa, like Fifa) has you pulling out knives, rusty scissors and syringes, summoning demons and using decapitated heads as the ball, in moves that make the likes of Diego “handball” Maradona and Luis “bitey” Suárez look like angelic stalwarts of the Fifa fair play guide.
“People say this is just football with blood, but there’s a lot more to it than that,” says 55-year-old solo developer Jacob Jazz. “I’m mixing survival horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil with the gameplay of Fifa and eFootball Winning Eleven [Pro Evolution Soccer in the UK]. You need to play football to keep progressing in the story mode of a classic survival horror game.”
