Polygon

After completing the game, a screen appears to grade your performance. I received a 75%, because I stole from children (it wasn'€™t clear whether murdering their parents was factored in) and also because I was a cannibal. I can'€™t say when I consumed human flesh, nor do I believe it was called human flesh when I did so. Ah well. One final tinge of guilt for an awful, disgusting, unsettling thing I never wanted to do. That sums up I Am Alive concisely.

Having that time-tested gameplay on the train home rather than having to fight for control of the TV is a valuable asset, and The Golden Abyss translates the console feel over to a handheld incredibly well. Innovative it ain't but hey, all games can't be broccoli. There has to be some junk food thrown in there every once in a while.

Escape Plan'€™s format — short stages, cute design, and a three star system€“ — purposefully draws comparisons to the iPhone competition. It is, without question, more beautiful than Angry Birds and Cut the Rope and their knockoffs. But it fails to compare when it comes to the actual playing of the game. The touch controls are too unreliable, the camera too cumbersome.

This is The Darkness II's biggest problem: the potential for so much more is there, and Digital Extremes walks by it in a blur of blood and gunfire. The Darkness II is good more often than it isn't, but the good ideas that are present serve to contrast with the chances not taken. Digital Extremes has made a game worth exploring more than anything else for the human relationship between Jackie and Jenny, but it's easy to see how much more it could have been.