Friday the 13th

I have been following Friday the 13th: The Game since before it was even Friday the 13th. I thought it was a great concept that would be a blast with friends, all trying to survive the night by escaping from the psychotic killer. Then, it turned into...

We were able to turn Friday the 13th: The Game into a fun sort of playground by making our own rules, but the game doesn’t create much fun on its own. The majority of matches are spent doing a dull scavenger hunt as a counselor, and somehow the game has even managed to make racking up kills as Jason himself tedious. Friday the 13th: The Game manages to mimic the surface level of the movies well enough — their kills, their locations, their gore — but it doesn’t come close to mirroring the campy spirit of the films. The result is a joyless cycle of murder broken up by long stretches of boredom.

Slightly above average or simply inoffensive. Fans of the genre should enjoy it a bit, but a fair few will be left unfulfilled. How we score:  The Destructoid Reviews...

When you're playing as Jason, this is unquestionably the best Friday the 13th game ever made. I really appreciate the genuine love for the franchise on display here. Hunting down players and executing them in spectacularly gory scenes is an homage that...

I think Friday the 13th will be a fantastic game in about three months' time. Right now it's capable of brilliance, but is a touch thin and not without its flaws. Still, the fact that I've had a good time with it even on half-melted servers demonstrates the strength of its emergent horror. Like the towering killer himself, Friday the 13th has come out of nowhere, and while it isn't invulnerable, it's more than capable of stealing your heart.

In Friday the 13th: The Game, you can play as either Jason or a camp counselor. As much as I'd like to continue such roleplaying into my review, I just can't. For the first few days, I felt less like a camp counselor isolated from society thanks to a...

It needs more maps, but right now Friday the 13th is a gory game of hide-and-go-seek that's fun with funny...

the game is beyond simplistic, but perhaps that's for the best. Overcomplicating things might have made it less fun in the grand scheme of things, and while I can't say for certain if I'll be playing this game a year from now, I do know I can...