Siren for PlayStation 2 Reviews by Gamers

The game has an interesting premise, but the controls and cameras are just absolutely terrible.

Not only that but you walk around with a flashlight, yet everything is completely black. Therefore, you find where you're supposed to go completely by accident by running into something.

The terrible controls, terrible camera angles, and the fact that you can't see where you're going make the game completely unplayable.

Alright people, this is like a textbook case of the good gone bad. The concept of the game is great, as is the atmosphere. Then they make some of the most textbook cases of ways to screw up ever.

First, they make an incredibly detailed face, even down to talking, then put it on a static, unmoving and un-detailed head, meaning that the facial features move randomly as one talks. Worse is the game's gross violation of basic rules of immersion. First you find yourself being drawn to the game, only to suddenly have your attention wrenched away into another place and time and, even worse, character. What made the game developers think this was ok is up in the air.

Finally, the game requires you to do missions they don't tell you to progress beyond certain points, and the missions they do tell you to do are usually convoluted and vague. Come on, this was a great premise, why did they screw it up?