Rise of Nightmares is a Fighting game available on the 360. It can be played in Firstperson Singleplayer modes.

Rise of Nightmares is a Fighting game. Fighting games revolve around the interaction of two or more characters in some form of physical combat. Players learn to control characters through either memorisation of button combinations to access more advance moves, or by their reactions and accurate timing.

Rise of Nightmares can be played in a Firstperson mode. First Person games view the world from the eyes of the in-game character. You don't see the character themselves apart from their hands, gun or possibly feet as in Mirror's Edge. Because of the imediacy of the experience and sheer volume of visual information the player is offered First Person games lend themselves to the shooting genre. The FPS view enables players to immerse themselves in the experience and react quicker to events in the game. Other games have used a first person view to deliver an unusual perspective on an old genre - Mirror's Edge for example delivers a Platforming genre through a First Person view.

Rise of Nightmares can be played in a Singleplayer mode. Single Player Campaign games focus on one player's experience. Rather than collaborate with other players either locally or online, players progress alone. The campaign style of gameplay offers a connected series of challenges to play through. These chapters work together to tell a story through which players progress. Single player games are able to focus on one experience of a scenario, so that it is usually a richer, more visceral game.

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Rise of Nightmares will bring the survival horror genre to Kinect. Matching House of the Dead for schlocky scares, but will the shooting be as much fun?

Is it possible to be scared by a game while flailing around in the centre of your living room floor? Sega are certainly hoping so, with Rise of Nightmares requiring players to use motion control to melee battle zombies with pipes, knuckle dusters - and sometimes just their fists. The more straightforward controls - punching the air to, well, punch - will be accompanied by on-screen buttons and prompts for more complex actions.
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