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The Suffering: Ties That Bind

The Suffering: Ties That Bind follows in the footsteps of its predecessor by combining a disturbing horror atmosphere with action/shooter gameplay. Players can switch between third person and first person…

72 26 September 2005

The Suffering: Ties That Bind is a shooter developed by Surreal Software, released 26 September 2005 on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What The Suffering: Ties That Bind is

The Suffering: Ties That Bind is a shooter game developed by Surreal Software and released in 2005. It was published by Midway Games. It is available on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

The Suffering: Ties That Bind is a 2005 first and third-person shooter horror video game developed by Surreal Software and published by Midway Games for PlayStation 2, Xbox and Windows. Stan Winston helped with the game's design. The game was released in North America in September and in Europe and Australia in October. It is a sequel to the 2004 game The Suffering. In 2017, it was released on GOG.com.
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How it plays

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

How it was received

The Suffering: Ties That Bind holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 47% of the 3,305 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 5 points above the year average.

What it launched against

The Suffering: Ties That Bind launched on 26 September 2005, within three weeks of Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, F.E.A.R. and Fable: The Lost Chapters. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy), Indigo Prophecy, F.E.A.R., Fable: The Lost Chapters.

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When did The Suffering: Ties That Bind come out?
The Suffering: Ties That Bind was released on 26 September 2005 for PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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