Alone in the Dark (2008)

A brilliant, enjoyable game if you can get over the issues as easily as I did.

User Rating: 8.5 | Alone in the Dark X360

By OXM-Madman | Review Date: June 30, 2008

I don't see why people complain about this game. I've only been excited about AiTD for about a month, and it has reached the target it was aiming for. It is very enjoyable. The controls aren't clumsy at all, more intuitive, for example you have to actually swing your weapon with the right analogue stick, blink your eyes to clear your vision, actually heal spesific wounds with a Healing Spray by selecting areas with the left analogue stick rather than just selecting a health kid and using it, etc, and it rarely feels that it is overpowering you only once in a while I have made a mistake with the controls. I have rarely found glitches in the game, and the very most I have found was in the end of Chapter 2, in a very cinematic car chase through a crumbling New York. The car controls are also very arcadey and easy to play, although I admit that even the slightest touch will make the car stop in a very overreacting fashion.

Although the animations are fairly stiff compared to nowerdays, they are still above average in comparison to Hour of Victory (the worst game ever made, period), as is the look of the character. The fire effects are really beautiful and it can be exciting while you try and end a fire as it engulfs the walls around you! So far (around half way through the game) the only issue I have is with the the DVD menu (which allows you to skip after a puzzle if you are finiding it too hard), and that issue is that you will lose your current gained items for your jacket (there is rarely any gun ammo, so you have to combine items you collect and use them with your gun for greater effect, i.e explodable plastic bottle + hankerchief = makeshift Molotov cocktail) at that current time when you skip. Also sometimes you will throw the controller in anger at yourself dying, because a lot of the time when you die, you know it's YOUR fault because you made a small mistake.

Other than what I have mentioned, this is a really brilliant survival game revival, without the horror as it really isn't that scary (only with jumpy bits, like a corpse suddenly apprearing on the windshield of your car). Buy this as it is worth your money.

P.S: Feel free to really disagree with this review, as I have had a LOT of experiance with video games and I personally found the issues easy to get over.

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