All the epic scenes of a movie, but none of the fun of a game
User Rating: 6.5 | Alone in the Dark X360
The survival horror genre is one that very few games are able to master. Even when a game looks good on paper, something always seems to go wrong. In this case, there were a list of things that "went wrong". Possible the most annoying thing is the camera controls. In an effort to be more like a movie, the game controls the camera for you, putting it in whatever position is most exciting, even if this means that you can't see what's going on. Sometimes it pays off, but rarely. Another big issue is the pace of the game. Obviously there's nothing wrong with a fast-paced game, but there is something wrong with a fast-paced game where you can't move fast. On multiple occasions I've been creeping (well not so much creeping and walking slowly and obviously) through a dark hallway when something attacks me. So what would you normally expect to do in a situation like that? You reach for the nearest weapon of course. Even doing that is an issue though, because instead of just looking around for a stick or some chunk of metal and grabbing it, you have to look for the one or two potential weapons in a room full of debris that you can't pick up. Then once you find a good object, it can take you five to ten tries to actually pick it up as you take a step to the left, and a step to the right trying to get it. All this your doing as some demon is slowly killing you. There are plenty of other issues, but basically, the game is just "off". Nothing handles quite right and it's disappointing because this game had such great potential. 
