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"I used to look like two of my mothers put together..." xd

The Hulk was great, so much better than the 2003 steampile, and Hancock doesn't open for another week or so. razz

xd Gold.

So I played Alone in the Dark a bit... and I kinda have mixed feelings. But to start off, it's not as RE4ish as one might've thought, which is a plus since it uses the over-the-shoulder camera as well as a first-person view. It has some scares in it, it's pretty dark and foreboding in areas which is nice. It's got a grand scale of destruction from the very beginning, which I like.

Now the controls could use some improvement. They're tank control or FPS dual-stick control if you use the first-person view, butif you're over-the-shoulder it switches to free movement style (think Outbreak, SH4, etc.) whenever you hit a fixed camera angle spot. Then it reverts to tank contols. It gets dizzying at times. Plus the constant "open jacket to retrieve flashlight everytime you do something is kinda annoying. Thank goodness for Favorites though. Pick four favorite combos to map to A, B, X, and Y (i.e. flashlight and handgun, handgun and exploding can, etc.) and then hold D-pad up and press the corresponding button for easy access.

Combat is handled in one of two ways. With your gun, you use the right trigger and it switches to first-person mode for aiming. When you pick up something (a chair, golf club, etc.) and use melee, the combat is controlled by the right analog stick. Get the swing ready by pushing it in any of the four main directions, then swing by moving it quickly in the other direction. Example: Quickly push the stick left, then right to swing at the enemy. Up, then down, and so on. Also, if you can set your weapon on fire and hit the normal enemies once, they die. Burn. Poof into dust. biggrin

So... so far, it's decent. Not amazing, but decent. Although the grand scale of destruction is amazing for me. I love that stuff. xd

Oh right, maybe I should make it clear that the combat wasn't a complaint. Those controls work nicely. It's mostly the movement that I have minor gripes about. xd

I have yet to discover too much of the story (on Episode 2, Part 3), but it sounds like something true to the series as far as I've seen. The voice acting feels decent to me. I mean, you have your levelheaded-sounding main character, a somewhat melodramatic female character, an injured man that sounds injured, and a freakin' demonic sounding person where they should sound demonic. The other minor NPCs really sound like one would if they were faced with the things they are.

ninja That's when you start talking about something completely new.

Ah, they won't. These kids are too lazy to read OR write.

I'm s**t at writing. I enjoy reading, though. Just not as much as I used to.