What the fuck is this?
This was my reaction when I started up the PS3 demo of Alone in the Dark. The PS3 version was God-only-knows how much longer in development and it’s just incredible that not only they didn’t make the game better, but actually made it worse.
First of all the graphics are just… bad. There is no need for some creative adjective here. They are BAD. The textures are in much lower resolution that their 360 counterparts (let alone the PC ones), the screen tearing is just as bad as in the Xbox version and there is aliasing everywhere. Looking at Carnby standing in front of fire (which is the main theme of the game) is like watching a dancing wood saw –it’s that bad.
Second thing is the controls. Atari claims that the controls are “so incredibly, fantastically, very improved” over the original ones. Now that is bullshit. They took a rather bad scheme and made it worse. Did you people ever heard about content sensitive controls?! HUH?! You still have the silly system where you have one button to pick up a table and a different one to put it down. Two buttons change your perspective into 1st person (depending on conditions) and there are multiple buttons for different action when in fact there could be just one. Sure they decided to “free” the camera and give the player control over it, but it has absolutely no impact on the gameplay (actually, the fixed camera was better) and only adds another button to the controls (you have to press it to get into a combat stance).
I bet most of the bugs that were present in the original releases are still in the game.
It’s like giving a sculptor more time to work on his creation because it was ill-proportioned and all he could do is cut the head off.
Good job Atari, good job.
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