Alone in the Dark for PlayStation 2 Reviews by Gamers

I went into this game wanting to like it, and coming out feeling vaguely disappointed and wanting more. This game tries hard - it has a lot of new and interesting ideas that just fall short of actually doing good. One of the largest problems you will run into are controls - for most of the game, you are able to choose either first person or third person, though it won't matter because you will still die far too fast if monsters are about and you can't find the right weapon or fire to use, or run about aimlessly if there are not. Certain areas are timed, so even though you've, say, either killed every monster or done everything in that room that there is to do, you will still end up just sitting around and twiddling your thumbs, waiting for the game to pick up again.
Certain elements struck me as, while somewhat interesting, wholly unnecessary and mildly annoying. Take for instance the forced rail shooter areas, or the driving. The car handles badly even at slow speeds, and the developers made the mistake of putting reverse and brake as the same button. There are also some problems with the general physics of the car, and areas where you need to use the car once more not making much sense, but having bad handling killed the whole experience from the start.
The puzzles are also often at times obscure while not being all that difficult. There will be obstacles that you are unable to get around, only to discover that you actually need to do three or for things, and the end result makes you feel slightly dumber and much more bewildered as to why anyone would make something so needlessly complicated.
Overall, the game had a lot of good concepts that were brought down heavily by bad execution, and the adjustment of graphics from next-gen to last-gen makes the background beautiful, and the character models lacking something. As I said, it tries very hard to do well, but falls short of really being a worthwhile game.

Uwe Boll's movie was worse than the original, understandably, but this game is worse than that. I mean, why has it become so hard to make actual good games anymore? When they give up on the camera and controls, you know they're gonna skimp on the rest - that's the case with the newest Hulk game, which is far inferior to the older Ps2/Xbox one, and that's the case with this. Poor controls, abhorrent voice acting, mediocre graphics, and the music drove me Steamboat Willie loco. After an hour, I just sealed it up and sent it off same day. Rent only.