You play the role of Torque, a death row inmate with an ambiguous past who has been imprisoned for slaying his ex-wife and children. Shortly after being interred in a new prison on Carnate Island, an earthquake appears to release demonic creatures based on the many modes of execution used in the sordid history of the island. These creatures proceed to eliminate much of the prison population, leaving only you and a scant few other inmates and guards to eliminate the horde and find out what has happened.

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Alternate Titles

"劫难" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)

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User Reviews

Silent Hill 2 meets Max Payne. And, against all odds, it works.	Windows	Dr. M. "Schadenfreude" Von Katze (588)
A really good atmospheric horror game to enjoy.	PlayStation 2	Reborn_Demon (124)
Tight horror-shooter that's better than it looks	Windows	Chase Dahl (6)
Survive the terror!	Windows	Perfil Falso (3346)

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GameSpot	PlayStation 2	Mar 09, 2004	7.6 out of 10	76
GameSpot	Windows	Jun 18, 2004	7.6 out of 10	76
Jeuxvideo.com	Windows	Jan 28, 2005	10 out of 20	50

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What's your excuse for not playing this NOW? >:(	14	PolloDiablo (16322) Nov 26, 2008

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Trivia

Cancelled Port

A GameCube version was already planned, but was cancelled because previous Midway titles sold poorly on the platform.

Development

The creatures and characters in The Suffering were designed by movie special effects master Stan Winston (designer of the Terminator exoskeleton, the Predator, the Alien Queen and the Jurassic Park dinos).

German version

There are a number of changes in the German version:

The making of feature and a trailer were removed.
There are no mutilated humans to be found.
Several cutscenes were cut. In some just the blood was removed, a few scenes are completely darkened out.
In the PlayStation 2 version, an instrument of torture was removed from a dead guard.
All swastikas were removed (this applies to every version except US)

A detailed list of changes can be found on schnittberichte.com (German).