Fatal Frame III: The Tormented (2005) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented

Rei Kurosawa suffers a strange dream each night, since she took a photo of her dead boyfriend in an abandoned old mansion. Every night the dream will take her deeper and deeper in an old mansion, when she will…

82 28 July 2005

What Fatal Frame III: The Tormented is

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented is an adventure game developed by Tecmo and released in 2005. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 2.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented is a survival horror video game developed by Tecmo for the PlayStation 2. The third entry in the Fatal Frame series, it was published by Tecmo in 2005 in Japan and North America, and by Take-Two Interactive in Europe in 2006. Set after the events of the first two games, the story revolves around three characters who lost loved ones and are drawn into the supernatural Manor of Sleep. The gameplay revolves around exploring the Manor and tackling hostile ghosts using the Camera Obscura. Each character has different strengths and weaknesses, such as stronger attack or stealth elements.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Fatal Frame III: The Tormented launched on 28 July 2005, within three weeks of Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II, Codename: Panzers - Phase Two and World Soccer: Winning Eleven 9. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Dungeon Siege 2, Dungeon Siege II, Codename: Panzers - Phase Two, World Soccer: Winning Eleven 9.

Cheats and codes

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