I don't think that I've mentioned this, but I have a PS+ account, and one of the benefits to said account is that every month you get a selection of free games. Now, I'm not complaining, but it would had made more of a marketing sense to offer this game in October rather than November, right?

Just a thought…

So on to: chi… chi… chi… hah… hah… hah…

I laughed because I listen to the publisher's (David K. Montoya) weekly podcast My Public Life as an American Nerd and back in October he was talking about how he watched all of the Friday the 13th Movies for Halloween and when I saw this game for download, I instantly thought of him. Now, I've seen a few Jason flicks (I'm more into Freddy, personally), but after I finished playing the game I believe there is no need to do so as I have experienced it via game-play.

If you have watch any of the Friday the 13th movies you already get the premise of the game as you and eight other online players are dropped into Camp Crystal Lake as the Kid's Counselors from the first flick from 1980, but one of you guys are selected to be Jason Voorhees. And no shock here to anyone is that is main agenda in this game is to slice and dice the of camp counselors into a bloody and horrific heap.

Sound cool, huh?

If you are a player that is a counselor, your task is basically trying to elude Voorhees by different method of escape or waiting for morning (which for some reason made me think of Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest, I'm old… Don't judge me. Anyway, an example of this is you can find a scattered car parts throughout to repair the vehicle and drive to safety (See what I mean about the Castlevania 2 feel, because you know Dracula's parts were scattered. Never mind). You can also look for a fuse to fix a call box and contact local law enforcement for help. If you are gutsy enough, you can try to kill Jason with a verity of weapons found throughout the campground. I admit, I tried several times and died several times too.

So you probably figured out that being offed as a teen counselor is very common and usually happens very quick during game play. If you're luck, you can be brought back to life as Tommy Jarvis (I had to google him to find out about his importance to the story) and from what I read was a reoccurring character in the moves during the 80s. But, if you're not so fortunate to be resurrected by Tommy, you can join in with the other dead players and watch the counselors that are still alive and do color commentary on what is happening in the game. That's pretty fun to do!

But, what is less fun is the queue times to join a game, and how many times you are dropped from a live game. Now, I know what you are thinking, but I have FIOs top speed internet. So it is the server and not me. I quickly learned that it could easily be a ten minute wait to even start the game and after waiting so long (more times than not), you are dropped right away to only wait to reconnect with the server.

So despite the issue of online play, Friday the 13th was still a fun game and has the possibility to be even better as the developers work out the kinks and add smarter and better AI players. It's already a thrill ride and certainly gets the blood pumping when you're running for Jason!

All in all, an enjoyable experience and game! So for this survival horror game I give three and a half blood splattered stars! Yeah, the extra half a star is simply because it was free as where normally its forty bucks! Now, they need to come up with a Freddy game and I'd be all over that!

As always, don't take my word for it, go play it yourself and then email me your thought at: Xilera@JayZoMon.Com.

PS. I did play the offline version too, and found it fun as well. But, at the end of the day I was just more entertained with the online game play the best.