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I've never played any of the classics of adventure horror (Silent Hill, Resident Evil, etc.), but the two that come to mind immediately are Half Life and System Shock 2.
Half Life just had atmosphere down pat. I'd be a lying dog if I said I didn't jump in my seat at least a few times when a headcrab would jump at me seemingly out of nowhere. Creepy tunnels with all kinds of weird stuff going on and this monster jumping out at me with a gutteral growl? Yeah, it was scary.
I never actually played System Shock 2, but just watching a friend play it freaked me out. That game is intense and atmospheric to the extreme. The fact that compared to a lot of games you spend a lot of it hoping you can survive because you don't have much to work with really adds to the fear element. You have one half-broken gun and a few handfuls of bullets instead of an arsenal of destruction. Makes a big difference. Too bad I hated the interface.
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