Controls have been highly refined to give players a better handle on Edward and full camera control has been granted to the right stick. Inferno definitely boasts a number of improvements over its earlier console counterparts. Driving sections, inventory management and cryptic cutscenes are also present in full force, so there's a little pinch of everything here. Inferno has a number of different gameplay elements, including a light amount of platforming, some combat and a handful of fairly creative puzzles. You play as Carnby and guide him along through both first and third-person perspectives. Inferno is basically an adventure game with horror elements. I love the apocalyptic setting of the game and some of the later thematic elements - while perhaps not fully explored - definitely captured my interest and enhanced the experience as a whole. Upon playing through Inferno, I realized how much potential occult tales have and there's definitely a chilling charm to Inferno that coaxes you into playing. I'll be the first to admit that the story has a few problems and certain sections of dialogue are lacking, but for some (perhaps miraculous?) reason, I took to Edward Carnby and his ridiculous, oddly-timed curses. But at the very least, what was once an awful game riddled with issues is now a reasonably entertaining effort that better highlights some of the great ideas that Eden attempted to implement into the project. I can say with complete confidence that Inferno is a tremendous improvement over its predecessors in terms of gameplay and structure, though it still bears some of the same problems that plagued the other versions. Now that Alone in the Dark: Inferno is available at retail, some gamers might be curious as to how the latest version turned out. His review was not the only one that reacted in this manner, and the folks at Eden took the criticisms very seriously when they continued their work on the PS3 version.

My colleague, Ryan Geddes, had some serious qualms with the 360 version of the game, including its poor controls, unintuitive combat mechanics and a less-than-ideal story. There's no hiding the fact that Eden Games' Alone in the Dark, which hit several consoles earlier this year, was not terribly well-received.

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