Itō worked as background and creature designer on the survival horror video game Silent Hill in 1999.
The gameplay is based around survival horror.
It was the first game to be dubbed a survival horror, a term Capcom coined to promote the game.
The game sold over five million copies, proving the popularity of survival horror.
However, critics argue that these titles represent the continuing trend away from pure survival horror and towards general action.
Many genres have twitch scenarios, be it action-adventure games or survival horror.
A late shift in development effectively changed the game from survival horror to action shooter, and contributed to the many complaints the game received.
République combines elements of stealth action with survival horror.
Alone in the Dark is a series of survival horror computer games from Infogrames.
It changed the focus of the series back to survival horror.