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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.

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

* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: {{spoiler|The SWAT squad leader can [[Open Says Me|"open" locked doors with his shotgun.]]}} But when you try it with {{spoiler|the ''same'' shotgun,}} it doesn't work.

* [[Genre Shift]]: By the end of the second game, {{spoiler|there's a lot more science fiction involved}}.

* [[Haunted Technology]]: Dr. Romero says that the PA system in NH2 is completely automated. It's not, although it doesn't start being noticeable up til Chapter 3. It's both hilarious and creepy to hear the mechanical voice start showing signs of being a [[Deadpan Snarker]].

* [[Haunted House]]: Setting of the first game.

* [[Heroic Mime]]: The player character never speaks, or even make any sound at all.

* [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]]: The level design is in-lieu with lots of the Source games, meaning that there will be loads of this.

* [[Invisible Anatomy]]: Played straight, since it is a Half-Life 2 mod.

** 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.

** 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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