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[[File:NH2_1680x1050_7339.jpg|frame| [[Oh Crap|"You can't escape from Nightmare House."]] ]]

 

 

Nightmare House 1 is a simple horror mod with no changes to the [[Half Life|Source]] engine but some model edits. In it, you play a nameless protagonist who crashes his car in the middle of nowhere. Venturing into a nearby house, he finds it haunted by zombies and a mysterious ghostly woman. Eventually he escapes, but before he can get back to the road, the woman appears and blocks his path, and he blacks out.

 

* [[Abandoned Hospital]]: Setting of the second game.

* [[An Axe to Grind]]: The first weapon the player gets in either game is an axe.

* [[Ambiguously Evil]]: One could argue the point of whether or not {{spoiler|Romero}} is really, truly evil. There's no proof that he {{spoiler|did anything to Emily,}} and most of his actions were in self defense.

* [[Badass Crew]]: The {{spoiler|SWAT team}} mows down zombies like there's no tomorrow.

* [[Batman Gambit]]: The first game resulted in the main character {{spoiler|being hauled off to a hospital}}... which is the ''same'' {{spoiler|hospital}} that {{spoiler|Emily's husband}} resides at. {{spoiler|It's all Emily's machinations.}}

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: {{spoiler|Emily}}, though {{spoiler|she}} has a funny way of showing it.

* [[Demonic Possession]]: Emily does this to {{spoiler|the player}}, while {{spoiler|Romero}} does this to {{spoiler|[[Moral Event Horizon|the SWAT, helicopter pilot and quite possibly the entire hospital]]}}. He may also have {{spoiler|created Emily}} in the first place.

{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Romero''': I'm going to kick your ass, With Science of course.}}}}

* [[Easter Egg]]: [[Word of God]] says there are 17, including a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UvbLcN7KwQ music video]!

** Also, the mannequins mentioned above. They don't attack you, they don't even make any movements. And yet they managed to become one of the creepiest elements of the game by having a nasty habit of {{spoiler|appearing right behind you to spook you as you turn, and replacing a friendly NPC who were gesturing you the way to go just moment ago.}}

* [[Puzzle Boss]]: {{spoiler|The Core}}. You have to break the fragile wood planks supporting it.

* [[Random Event]]:

** HELP ME {{spoiler|HELP ME HELP ME HELP ME}}.

** Some of {{spoiler|the SWAT team}}'s jokes.

** You will sometimes be hurt for a single point of damage for no discernable reason.

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** The {{spoiler|1=SWAT}} do this all the time.

{{quote|"I just can't stop thinking about how scary it be if a [[Cloverfield|flaming homeless guy came out of the dark]] right now".}}

** The aforementioned scene involving the {{spoiler|[[Red Shirt|SWAT]]}} gesturing for you to flip a switch and open the door is visually similar to [[Cryostasis]] where a man apparently trapped in an elevator shaft [[Cat Scare|bangs on the glass of the control booth]] and points to the controls just below him.

** The hallway full of shadow people is a reference to a similar sequence in [[Metro 2033]].

** Similarly, the mannequin sequence refers to the ones in [[Condemned]].

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekX08mqSh9c A special guest star appears] in one of the Easter Eggs. It's {{spoiler|[[Yume Nikki|Uboa]]}}.

** The bloody hospital hallways scenes are a dead match to similar scenes in ''[[First Encounter Assault Recon|F.E.A.R.]]''... although they sometimes end differently than expected.

* [[Signs of Disrepair]]: If you take a look at the sign for the hospital in the [[Nonstandard Game Over]], it's {{spoiler|"Never Hope" Hospital}}.

* [[Stupidity Is the Only Option]]: In Chapter 7, even though you know {{spoiler|Romero}} is probably hiding in that bathroom you have no choice but to leave the room, at which point {{spoiler|he locks you out and you're forced to destroy the core while he sends hallucination after you}}. This is even more frustrating since you just got the shotgun, {{spoiler|[[Gameplay and Story Segregation|the weapon that had been used to "open" locked doors by the squad leader until that point]]}}.

* [[Through the Eyes of Madness]]: And it's all {{spoiler|Romero's}} fault.

* [[Updated Rerelease]]: NH1, which was integrated into NH2 as a prologue and features improved visuals.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|Romero}} as you destroy {{spoiler|his machine}}.

** {{spoiler|Romero}}'s diary mentions how {{spoiler|the cook was a zombie}} and he killed him with the axe, which means that some of the zombies are real - or he is just completely bonkers. It's more likely that most of the zombies are real, and that {{spoiler|Romero is just cloning them from his own or the Player's experience.}}

*** Maybe the ''[[Mind Screw|axe]]'' [[Mind Screw|isn't real either]], and is actually still just lying there in front of the house with all your weapons from the first game.

 

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