Alone in the Dark Comments by Kristan Reed

"It depends on what the other PS3 extras are at the time, and the price difference between the 360/PS3 versions in November (Xbox version will be in the £20 region)."

It's been in that region since the week after it was released. Never seen a game discounted so fast have I.

Lucky bastards, the team should be put in jail for releasing such a mess

A drop kick into the 360 nuts. Clearly 360 wasnt their favoured platform and whilst admirable that they admit it had many faults how the heck are 360 owners who bought meant to feel when they hear such stuff? I never bought this but may do if there is a patch which addresses all the issues. Does anyone know if a patch will be forthcoming?

so, the PS3 version is superior... hummmmmmmmmm

You know you have a bad game when the pirate groups won't go near it.

At last, may make me try it again. Almost lost a 360 controller thanks to that game.

Horror games need fixed cameras. they turned this into a poor action title.

A drop kick into the 360 nuts. Clearly 360 wasnt their favoured platform and whilst admirable that they admit it had many faults how the heck are 360 owners who bought meant to feel when they hear such stuff? I never bought this but may do if there is a patch which addresses all the issues. Does anyone know if a patch will be forthcoming?

Calm down, mate.

They don't have any contempt for any platform. The game was shipped with those faults because they had a deadline to comply.
The PS3 version was delayed for other (usual) reasons. I'm pretty sure they would have liked to start selling that one sooner as well. But since they had more time to work on one of the versions, they decided to fix issues all accross the board.

So yes, the vast majority of changes introduced in the game will be patched into both other versions.

Never seen a game discounted so fast have I.

Lair's price dropped faster, methinks ;)

So the original version was rushed out (and crap) just like the Xbox 360?

Figures.

best o luck to it.

"Hey man, I wanna have a fight with you
Regardless of my feelings on the subject"
Shellac of North America

I'm amazed by this. I had been really looking forward to this game until I saw the reviews, then figured it wasn't worth it, especially after the delay. I didn't think for one minute they would bother correcting all the howlers, but maybe...just maybe...it might be worth getting after all.

Shame they didn't fix the way you performed attacks. After the camera that was my biggest issue with it.

Now - this is an excellent way of doing things - the PS3 version is going to take a lot longer to optimise, so get the 360 version out, with the best online play and in a finished state, get it reviewed and continue to work on the PS3 version.

Then release the PS3 version 6-8 months later, but as a deluxe version with the 1080p 10-year cinematics and all of that bollocks, but essentially - with all of the main criticisms of the 360 version fixed.

Then if the 360 version is patched to include the improvements, or updated via DLC, then everyone's happy - both games will get a sales boost from the renewed hype and publicity for the PS3 launch, plus many publications will re-review the game.

The PS3 version can even get another launch window when a 360-esque compressed version is released on PSN 6-12 months later, hopefully with improved online functions where applicable.

This sounds ideal. Alone In The Dark service pack 1 - what is the gaming world coming to!?

Delivering what we, the gamer, enjoy and demand - I hope.

ryz

@Apololol

typical 'tard wanker comment...

The tossers that made this game for the wii should actually apologise for the appalling state of the 'finished product' and they should be doing something about that (like a patch) instead of working on new versions that this time they promise won't be crap (honest guv).

A bit of respect for the customer instead of this continual PR bullshit and $$$ at all costs would be a nice change.

And BTW is it too much to ask that after printing all the rubbish about how great this game was going to be Eurogamer might inject a dose of scepticism when they say the new version would be better? Instead of lapping it all up .. how about holding the tossers to account for their broken game and ripping people off first time round?

Atari should be ashamed of themselves. I don't believe the PS3 version will be any better and I will never buy another Atari game.

Yes I have given up smoking recently but this article pissed me right off.

When I saw that the game got not so good reviews I decided not to buy, but then realised that the PS3 version wasnt released at the same time. Seeing some of the possible improvements I might actually pick this up, it seemed kinda interesting at the time.

One question, and Im not trying to be a PS3 fanboy when i say this, I am intrigued... If you have the Wii version or an Xbox without a hard disk, will they be able to patch it?

Xbox games are routinely patched - is there anybody that doesn't have a HD for their xbox? If you didn't then no they couldn't.

Wii patches need to be fairly small i guess.

Well they couldn't make it much worse anyway!