Creepy, scary games can be good fun. Silent Hill and the Resident Evil series have done a great job of leaving gamers on edge after a few rounds. Unfortunately the second in the series or PC games based on the Blair Witch Trilogy doesn’t bode nearly as well as these other great horror games. While it is creepy, and does have a solid story the mixed presentation and weak controls mar the experience.

The one thing that can really ruin a game are its controls, be it awkward button configurations or poor response. Coffin Rock definitely has poor response as your character, Lazarus, is very difficult to move around, clumsily bobbing around the screen, which can be particularly annoying if you’re engaged in combat. Adding to this problem are the fixed camera angles that make it exceedingly difficult to get your baring while trying to get through passageways, most notably doors. On top of this it is very difficult to aim firearms as there is only an extremely small red dot on the screen to indicate where Lazarus is pointing his gun and often it disappears, resulting in many wasted rounds trying to shoot enemies.

interesting this is a game, not a movie, and as such people should be doing a lot more playing and a lot less watching. Better voice acting would also have gone a long way in making the cutscenes more bearable. As it stands it can be very challenging to wait through these scenes instead of simple turning off the game and doing something else.

At least the game maintains a scary persona and the audio is one of the main