Alone In The Dark


Ok, got this today…have played it for about 2 hours…and my opinion?

Lovely atmospheric graphics with the best fire effects I have yet seen in a game.  The controls as widely-reported are indeed clunky & over-complicated, but are by no means un-managable.  My real concern is in the game’s novelty (see: pointless) dvd-menu gimmick allowing you to ‘skip’ forward to later parts of the game – for no other reason than to ruin your experience.  Absolute idiocy.  I of course will not sucome to such temptation, as I have a feeling the game will be short enough without needing to fast-forward. 

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