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Atari: Positive Alone in the Dark reviews keep coming

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Videogamer writes: "Atari has revealed it wants more from its major summer release, Alone in the Dark, despite the title placing at No.1 in the Xbox 360 chart and at No.3 in the All Formats chart.

"The positive review scores continue to come in and marketing support is scheduled to run through to the end of August," Atari product manager Ben Walker told MCV. "Our target now is to build upon the start and keep Alone in the Dark selling through-out the summer"

We found Alone in the Dark to be one of the most disappointing games of the year so far, scoring only 6/10 despite much early promise and plenty of good ideas"
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Gollum - 532 days 7 hours ago
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Positive? LOL! Thank Goodness our preciouSsSs wont be getting this game until after a while, by then AAA game will overshadow it, we wont even notice it on the shelves
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harrisk954 - 532 days 3 hours ago
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1.1 - Positive? What is Atari smoking?
The metacritic score is 61 and the user score is 6.3.... i think that we can pretty much consider this to be a huge disappointment when it was so highly anticipated and the scores from both critics and users are so low.
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thereapersson - 532 days 7 hours ago
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2 - I've said it before, and i'll say it again
360 owners will buy anything with the 360 logo on it. It's a shame videogame sales don't take into account how many people end up returning games due to mediocrity...
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blindfromthesun - 532 days ago
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2.1 - i think your overstating things a bit
A bad game is a bad game. I won't buy this game for my Xbox or PS3. The game has been out for two weeks and only sold 120,000. Not a lot considering the developers were hoping to sell 3 million. Here is the link with current sales data:

http://www.vgchartz.com/wee...
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PirateThom - 532 days 7 hours ago
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Positive reviews?

Where?
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ShinnokDrako - 532 days 6 hours ago
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I've seen only complainings about this game, and i was going to buy it too, i needed a scary adventure =P but with all i have seen and read, bye bye Alone... hope in the PS3 version they can fix something, then i could think about it again. If it's the same (or worse) i forget it.
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Captain Tuttle - 532 days ago
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You'll love Bioshock
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kingme71 - 532 days 6 hours ago
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Hopefully, that is just PR speak and they are fixing alot of these problems for the PS3 version. If they are getting good sales despite bad reviews, what motiviation do they have?
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idontcare - 532 days 6 hours ago
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lol@Atari
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Shroomy - 532 days 4 hours ago
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8 - I got it along with my Elite in a bundle
I can tell you now, it's a really flawed gem.

There are loads of bugs and things that would annoy the hell out of you, like swinging a weapon around or the slow and akward controls, to the terrible driving model.

Despite this, it's the only game in the last few years where I really had to THINK about how do I complete this puzzle, that's what I enjoy about the game. Reviewers have too high of a standard today, I think they were really harsh on it.
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