We at Destructoid did not like Alone in the Dark. In fact, our review of it was quite harsh (although to its credit, it was no Eternity's Child). If you were holding out for the PlayStation 3 version, however, don't kill yourself just yet -- Atari has promised that Alone in the Dark for the PS3 will be better. It promised!
There are no specifics as of yet, but if Conrad's review was anything to go by, Atari needs to make improvements to the following areas: The pacing, the pointless collection quests, the repeating pointless collection quests, crap camera control. useless firearms and a series of glitches. Just clear those up and everything will be fine.
I don't hold out much hope. When a game is being sold on the idea that "it's not as bad this time," it's rarely ever good. We'll see what Atari has to offer by way of improvements before we can judge for certain, but nobody hold their breath.
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8:02 PM on 08.09.2008
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"Here's our game, it's crap. But we will make it better later"
THIS GAME however is just terrible, . . not Vampire Rain terrible, but pretty bad.
The first thing that killed me was how much better the last game was, in every way. . . Man, I can't imagine what the fuck they are gonna do to improve it other then scrap the whole fcken thing. [p]
I had high hopes for this game, and NOW I'll just be happy if I can get through it and make it to the end and pray for NO MORE driving sequences.
Seriously though what are they going to fix? There was so much wrong with that game it would easily take another year in development to make it decent.
It was indeed no Eternity's Child, because it was 100 times worse. No don't disagree, you're wrong, it really was :P
The game has an innovative way of telling a shitty story. Make it a good story, and you got yourself gold.
Course I just went out and bought the game, I didn't wait till some website told me it sucked and then sucked the virtual dick of the reviewer and tell him he was SOOOOOOOO right despite they never tried the game ever.
The inventory system was also quite innovative, oh and Jim, you where supposed to use fire to kill most enemies, that's why the gun was rather useless, you could make fire bullets and kill a few enemies like that though, you just needed to aim for the fissures in their bodies.
I have to wonder, just how many people who commented here have actually played the game or are they simply parroting back what the reviewers like the good little sheep they are.
I bought the game before any reviews we're available and was able to play through it without with an open mind. I have to agree with Kyousuke and say that most of the hate for this game is from people who've never played it.