Plot is well delivered
Filling up your Insanity Meter
Wonderfully horrific monsters
The game lacks genuine scares
Essentially the same as the first game
Picking up useless notes and memos
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The original The Suffering was a decent enough action-horror-shooter combo set in a maximum security prison populated with all manner of suitably gruesome creatures that attempted to tear Torque’s limbs off at every turn. That is, when Torque wasn’t morphing into a equally gruesome creature himself, and inflicting similar carnage. Ties That Bind kicks off where the first game ended and there’s no prizes for guessing that what’s served up is essentially more of the same.
| Genre | Action |
| Description | It may be a little short in the scare department, but as far as survival horror games go, you could do a lot worse than this solid sequel. |
| Platform | "PC","Xbox","PS2" |
| US censor rating | "Mature","Mature","Mature" |
| UK censor rating | "","","" |
| Release date | 1 January 1970 (US), 1 January 1970 (UK) |