Alone in the Dark (X360) - Critic Reviews

Alone in the Dark

Mediocre Critical Reception

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Platform:	Xbox 360	Genre:	Action Adventure	Developer:	Eden Studios
ESRB:	Mature	Release:	June 23, 2008	Publisher:	Atari

Critic Reviews

The following reviews are used to calculate the overall reception for this game. All applicable scores are converted to our simplified rating system based on the specifics offered by each publication or the tone of each review. You can read more about how we do this here.

Nick Suttner

1UP

June 24, 2008 -

Good - Though no one element is particularly polished, [Alone in the Dark] is plenty varied, and it happily defies genre characterization wherever it can -- racing segments, rappelling, and a handful of great ideas keep things fresh.

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GamesRadar

June 24, 2008 -

Good - As much as Alone In The Dark deserves to be criticized for its problems, it equally deserves to be lavished with praise for some outstanding ideas and set-pieces. A gracious failure, AITD should stand as a lesson for other developers to see what they should be striving for.

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GameTrailers

June 26, 2008 -

Good - [Alone in the Dark] needed more gestation to really iron out the interface issues, but it remains an adventure worth pursuing. And with its DVD affordances, feel free to treat it as such: rent it and skip to the good bits.

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Chris Watters

GameSpot

June 26, 2008 -

Mediocre - Alone in the Dark is an ambitious game that features a lot of cool gameplay and bucks a lot of gaming conventions. Unfortunately, the technical execution does not match this ambition, and the resulting roughness will prove too high a cost of entry for many gamers.

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Sterling McGarvey

GameSpy

June 25, 2008 -

Mediocre - [Alone in the Dark] forces the player to fight against bad controls and struggle to find fun within its inherent flaws, which far outstrip its merits.

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Tom Orry

VideoGamer

June 24, 2008 -

Mediocre - Atari's ambitious next-gen take on Alone in the Dark is packed full with potential. It has more than enough good ideas to make a brilliant, must-own game, but features even more bad game design and gameplay issues.

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Matt Keil

G4 / X-Play

November 18, 2008 -

Poor - It's clear the people who made Alone in the Dark were trying to make something very ambitious, and there are a lot of good ideas here. It's just that none of them work very well.

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Robert Workman

GameDaily

June 1, 2008 -

Poor - Alone In the Dark earns points for its great presentation and a few clever ideas. However, it simply isn't fun, and as a result leaves its audience in the dark.

Ryan Geddes

IGN

June 24, 2008 -

Poor - Alone in the Dark has some good ideas, but it fails at most because it tries them all. Nice visuals, great fire effects and valiant efforts at innovation don't make up for boring combat, frustrating controls, poorly designed levels and a hackneyed story.

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