

Smaller franchises struggled too during the 2000s, with the final official Clock Tower game coming in 2002. Then, one year later in 2009, we’d see the release of Resident Evil 5, which took a slight downturn in quality for the series and was somewhat of a letdown after the all time classic that was Resident Evil 4.

The genre was facing a downturn, with 2008 also giving us the much anticipated yet disappointing Silent Hill: Homecoming alongside the equally disheartening Alone in the Dark reboot.

Before Dead Space came along, survival horror was in a bad place during the seventh console generation.
