ok, ok, so I bashed the game without giving it a total chance. I still say it doesn't give the scare factor in any regard, but its co-op play is addictive if you can find the right partner to play it with. The graphics aren't bad, but their not the best. It seems almost as though it's an overhead viewed version of Resident Evil, but it's just not the same thing.

Maneuvering with a partner makes it interesting, and kinda fun actually, but it's not a game to play alone.

It's co-op play is the best part, and that is what I'm playing. The game's culmative crapiness is diverted solely because of it's 2 player mode (although four player would have done soooooo much better).

regardless, a co-op game like this only has value as what it is, and this, is a co-op game.

You find to day that the genre of survival horror has its ups and downs. It has break through games such as Resident Evil 4, Silent Hill 4: The Room, and the classic Fatal Frame, and then it has the overly forgettable games, like Hunter the Reckoning: Wayward for ps2.

Hunter the Reckoning was a game adapted from the Xbox franchise, but i found it actually at a range of difficulty was simply un-necessary. The opening level of the game is the outer grave-yard. Your task is seemingly simple: find two cd-roms hidden in tombstones.

The problem arises when you have to backtrack through the entire completed level in order to locate the cd's. I found it to be increasingly un-nerving and turned the game off, only to play it later and find the same result. The multi-player is fun, but it would be better with 4 players.

I also dont think that it can even be classified as survival horror. They are several key features that indicate it to be: the massive rampage of zombies, the guns and item obtainment, the dark and gothic style enviroments. But its also lacking the key horror element. FEAR. Its not scary, and regardless if it is classified as survival horror or action-adventure, I place it under action-adventure.

My over-all point is that the game genre is losing its appeal. With movies like Stay Alive, that show the better version of survival horror, it is rather unsettling that the key elements in a game that that movie shows cant be incarnated in an actual game. To create a character to your specifications and roam a spooky place while shooting zombies and uncovering secrets would be a bestseller. But our current game market, as I know of, has as of yet to release such a game into our market.

If anyone knows of such a game, message me, but i scarcely doubt that ill be getting any.