Awful, awful, awful. I expected to find some underappreciated, perhaps ahead-of-its-time value here but this is a rare case where everybody was right, it sucks. It's easy to forget with how spoiled we are now on the genre, but horror games after the Left 4 Deads and before Outlast were (mostly) in dire fucking straits. It's a shame that so many spectacular ideas on display here (the overall A.I. protector system, contamination disguises, the puzzles ain't bad either) are snuffed out by a viciously atrocious execution. Even with a brand spankin' new 1 TB SSD this thing still runs like super glue and takes forever to load, and even if it did perform well - which, I cannot stress this enough, it doesn't - its systems are still finnicky and reliably unreliable. The of-the-era bullshit sci-fi aesthetic stuff is totally unnecessary, controls are hot garbage, and if The Order: 1886 was only half a game then this is like 1/4th of a game. Just makes me feel bad how shitty this is

the ps3/360 gen was such a rough time to be a fan of horror games that i remember actually being excited for this to launch. for what it's worth, the trailers and pre-release materials didn't look anywhere near as bad as this turned out but fucking god.

this could've been a more middling kind of bad if it wasn't for the misguided stealth section/chapter to end all misguided stealth bits. it was unfathomably bad and i'm glad it's over.

legiterally one of, if not The worst game i have ever finished. should've used something else to test out RPCS3 but i was feeling nostalgic.