Better than your average movie tie in, and different, but nothing magnificent.
I was pleasantly surprised, I'd have to say. It has it's flaws, mainly combat, which is badly controlled, unresponsive and frankly irrelevant. You have a wide variety of weapons to pick up all over the game, and all of them are not nearly as good as your bare fists. Every enemy in the game can be overcome by repeatedly punching them over and over, with no further complications. This is mixed up a little by having enemies you need to take care of from a distance, but you always encounter this foes in areas with obvious trap spots to make them virtually irrelevant. Where the game stands out is simply it's thinking factor. It is, when boiled down, a series of puzzles. It felt nice to play a puzzle game again, as they are virtually extinct in today's game scene, and there really are some difficult moments. One sequence sticks in mind where our hero must transverse a series of crushing wall traps, defeat a sweaty shirtless fat guy armed with a steel pipe, escape a room filling with poison gas, and successfully disarm two complex electrical puzzles, all in the space of five very fast going minutes. This may be controller throwing frustrating for some gamers, but I thoroughly enjoyed the challenge, and the feeling of accomplishment for getting through something like that over the standard fare in gaming.
The game again falls short in it's length, it can be finished (with a little perseverance) in one long sitting, with no reply value as far as I can tell. All in all, fans of the movie will likely love it. Fans of the horror/survival genre will probably enjoy it to. Anyone who wants their trigger finger to be more taxed than their puzzle solving skills will likely be frustrated with it. Oh, and Tobin Bell does a brilliant job, as always, as Jigsaw. Was a nice surprise to hear his voice in the game.