Alone in the Dark (2008)

didn't play this. I watched the entire gameplay and it's the worst horror game I've ever seen. It feels like whoever made this game is stuck in the era of point and click games. It's a strange combination of Alan Wake, Die Hard, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Driver and low quality Hollywood disaster movies.

The design of this game is filled with nonsense. Driving a car or a forklift just to show off physics and driving. Dynamic fire that only serves as a techdemo showcase. Some actions in this game have that old school feel of choosing an action first, then clicking to perform it. Who the hell had this idea of grabbing electrical cables to climb up? And repeat this same thing multiple times throughout the game? Why that obsession with climbing? The interface and healing in this game seem as if they were trying some VR game because the character has to look at his own body to heal and to choose items.

The main character is supposed to be an investigator. The whole game lacks investigation is more about killing monsters and solving puzzles with obvious solutions. There is a door locked with a keypad and a password in the beginning of the game. The character's hand just warps from one key to the next, as if this was a 2D game with static scenes. I was watching but I could sense through the camera's motion that the controls were rigid, janky, very hard.

In the beginning you don't know what is happening. You are toss into a building that is being attacked by supernatural evil forces and you have to escape the destruction. I thought that there was going to be a deep and intricated plot, but in the end it was all about Lucifer coming to rule over the world.