Customer Reviews

Run Like Hell

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(9)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

Run Like Hell had me running to the video game store and impatiently waiting in line to buy this gem.

*Graphics-The graphics are simply amazing and vibrant.
The character models are life-like and realistic. Sometimes you can forget your playing a game and not watching an animated movie!
The cut-scenes really push the story along.

*Sound-I have my PS2 hooked up to my Surround System(and locked the doors from pesky compalining neighbors).
The sound is very rich and realistic. Each door opening and closing made me jump.
In some levels you can hear the "thumping"of the monsters footfalls, i nthe next room and you would think they would jump through the television any minute.
The best part is the live voice overs, with such great talents as Lance Hendrikson and Clancy Brown. Each character comes "Alive" with the voice overs.

*Control-Altho, I found the control easy to adapt to, the absence of a "custon Configuration" had me beating my head off the floor.
The only other confusing part is the "upgrading of weapons interface". Take your time and go over this throughourly, it could make the difference from starting over and over..
The main interface is good, and the "Aiming" is very precise.

*Replay-Like most "Survival Horror" games, you can only play them over so many times..I have 2 more levels to go till I beat the game, so I won't know what hidden secrets are i nthere till I finish..

*Final Words-Better then Resident Evil in many ways, but still sticking true to the Surival Horror premise. If you are a fan of this Genre, then run like hell out to your nearest game store and pick this up..
Unplug the phone, lock the doors, shut off the lights, buy your Girlfriend/boyfriend a new book, and prepare to "live" this game!!

my friends said i was stupid when i first rented this game, when they played it they disliked how they were stuck all the time etc. i played it and got used to how it worked, though it has its cons (hard puzzles, easy to get lost, and constant shooting) its pros make up for it (great voice overs, unbelievable graphics, easy control, beautiful bloody story, etc.) i was getting in to the game and when i offered my friend if he wanted to play again, he said "you're making it look great, like a movie" i loved it, i guess it depends on what kind of gamer you are. i highly recommend this one to sci-fi fans (but rent it first to see if you like it)

I don't want to argue with other reviewers, but I thought the game was rather easy to complete. Now that doesn't mean that I didn't like the game. I thought the graphics were incredible and the storyline held true to most Sci-fi horror games (save yourself and the human race). Unlike other games, the voice overs/acting was very well done and in general the whole game played out like a movie, which I liked. The Music was good and the sound effects did their job. I definitely jumped out of my shoes a couple of times. Plenty of weapons to choose from, most of them needed to be powered up with items you find during gameplay (some had two different types of triggers). I didn't notice the mosters getting smarter on their own, the game made them harder to beat, but they didn't really change their patterns of attack. The bosses were not overly difficult to beat once you learned their moves and because the game gives you so much health and healing powers, I hardly ever had to continue the game. The puzzles aren't impossible to solve, but you find yourself having to look around for the clue quite a bit. I didn't like the fact that once you completed a section of the game, there was no going back to maybe look over the area more closely (makes you wonder what you left behind). There are some blantant uses of the 'F'-word (4 or 5, I think) as well as many of the other 'more acceptable' profanities, so that's your call, they're your kids!! My advice is to rent it for 5 days, two hours a day should be more than enough time to finish this one off. Replay value doesn't seem to be too high, I am already looking forward to playing something else. Recommend playing this one, just not buying!!

In Run Like Hell you receive live transmission messages from people who are still struggling to survive the cataclysmic events unfolding on the space station. You also see recordings revealing clues to the horror that has taken place when you were away... And the aliens are transforming people by merging them with horrific super beings called Elite.

This is so brilliant, and reminds me of Systemshock2. Unlike Systemshock2, in Run Like Hell you get to actually find survivors, interact with them and try together to find ways to escape. Also in Run Like Hell space marines try to rescue you but fail in a horrific bloodbath they didn't expect, because you were electronically jammed from warning them by the intelligent aliens. This is the best Sci-Fi horror ever.

And just like Systemshock2, the ending makes you feel wary and uncomfortable because you know it isn't over and the human race is still at stake.

You meet many different variations of the alien race:

Amalgamator - The master Aliens behind the attack. They are intelligent but not very strong.
Brutes - Big monsters. Run for your life.
Elites - have two legs two long arms and no head. They are telepathic and lead the others with mind control. They can have human heads from their victims assimilating their knowledge and personality. They can lure you into thinking that certain people are still alive to lure you.
Cutters - Ugly fast aliens with sharp teeth like taken out of the movie aliens.
Cloaked Cutters - Invisible cutters. Really creepy.
Drones - Spiders with human heads. Really, really creepy.
Scouts - Shaped like scorpions with alien heads and sharp teeth.
Snipers - run on two feet but have multiple legs for climbing and hanging from any surface. They fire bolts of plasma at you from far away....

I only wish Fox's attempts at conveying the creepiness of the original "Alien" in a video game had been as successful as this alternate, yet unique, form.

I read early reviews by reporters who had seen "beta" trade show demos of this game, and complained that the final product lacked something the demo promised. But these reporters need to realize that consumers generally don't go to trade shows and so aren't biased against the final release. All we see is what's on the store shelves and based on that, I love this game. I'm 35 years old and I love good action games and this one delivers the action as well as a very well thought out storyline. Frankly this video game script is better than most Hollywood sci-fi horror attempts. It has well drawn characters, beautiful art direction, and elegant game controls. Yes, elegant!

I would agree with one reviewer that complained about the alternative rock interludes that are simply annoying. This video game has a lot of class, and the rock music takes it down a notch. The scored "cinematic" music is far better.

The sound design is awesome. I can't emphasize enough how top notch the environment and production design is. If this had been a feature film, I would have paid my 9 bucks to see it. This game has all the depth of a big budget TV pilot, and based on the story, I hope Interplay and Digital Mayhem continue with more Episodes of Run Like Hell.

I would like to add this. There should be an option to somehow just watch all the in-game videos in narrative order to just watch this game as a movie. In case a player can't finish the game, they should have an option to at least see the story. Also, there's a music video hidden on the disc as well. It seems only fair that if you pay $50 for a game, you should have immediate access to all of its features. Nothing should be hidden.

Do yourself a favor. Buy the game and enjoy it. It's really great. An it's not infuriatingly hard, you just have to be calm while you play it (easier said than done!)

5 Stars!

This game may have an awkward name since running away from "The Race" in the game is NOT a good idea. They're much faster then you. Maybe the Scouts if you've got good skills but Cutters and Brutes is another story. But anyway, this game has excellent voice acting, an original storyline, great graphics and environments, and even cooler music. Both the suspenseful and the rock music produced by Breakin Benjamin's CD "Saturate". There is very cool furturistic weapons that can be upgraded to be stronger since the aliens get tougher and adapt to your behaviors. Well thought out and probably the best Sci-Fi alien game made, I've played others like Alien Resurrection for PS1 but that didn't do it for me, and Half-Life's original but later on you fight too many human marines rather then aliens. If you're concerned about your parents for this game being too violent, well you're mostly killing aliens. Never a human pretty much and there's hardly no blood in this game. Yeah there's a pretty nice decapitation in the beginning but that's really it. The blood splatters on the walls and floors throughout the levels are pretty bland and too dark to see. This game does have 3 uses of an F bomb dropped though. Mostly the main character Nick Conner. But more like 5 F bombs because there's one on a couple songs in Chapter Four and one on one of the same songs on Chapter Seven. But you won't hear it unless you got headphones on. The controls are extremely responsive and not hard to learn, kinda like GTA's controls and maybe a little better. This game only dissipoints on a few factors because the game's self-running trailer or demo perhaps if you leave the main menu alone looks alot faster and cooler. And the game's action isn't that fierce and exciting. Plus most of the demo was from the CGI movies which you'll see in the game combined with gameplay. And lastly there's no unlockables, so the replay value might not hold out unless you wanna do all seven chapters again. You could make a "Chapter Selection" thing up and make seven out of the eight total game saves and just play a specific level(s) you like at any given time without doing the entire game over again. The puzzles in RLH are very tedious involving buttion combinations, which gets boring. But the best puzzles are on Chapter One. Here and there, you might get some button mashing parts, but it's nothing serious. There is no additional endings like Silent Hill and this game's ending is a little depressing, but then again the whole game is depressing because nothing goes right and the aliens get worse to deal with, till the point Nick needs to get the hell off the Forseti Station and blow it up and with any friends he still has last. I won't spoil what happens inbetween though, but I got kinda pissed when a favourite character of mine got blown up on Chapter Four. Anyway for lastly, some small game hints: Don't attack the big Brute aliens they're impossible to kill unless you use a custom made Crossbow toward the end of the game, or use high explosive tank canisters. There is some nifty tricks to kill the Brutes in the game but I'll leave that up to you to check out. As for Cutters and Scouts, they get alot deadlier throughout the game and some "boss versions" of them occur a few times. Make sure to upgrade the weapons and spend chips on the most reliable weapons. The best guns to use for chips not specifically made for a specific weapon, is the Rifle, Assault Rifle, and Pulse Rifle. There's alot of ammo for Shotgun but alot of weapons in this game hardly got ammo for them, one even sucks your health away if you use it (the alien weapon) but thankfully I completed this game with 111 medical kits so this game is not very hard to find health. Some of the weapons are even unlimited ammo!! Which really is a nice thing. Now you've got some good info to start with, so buy the game!! They should make a sequel. Due to a cliff hanger ending.

OK i have to agree with everyone and say that this game is better then Resident Evil,you cant really say taht about many games.I am a big RE fan ,but this game really blew me away, i mean the gameplay was like nothing i have ever expriencend before.The storyline was very fresh after playing RE ,and other Survival-Horror games.The music (done by Breaking Benjamin) ties very well into the game.One thing that is a great feature to this game is that, unlike other Survival-Horror games that take you about 3-4 hours,this game acutally takes about 10-14 hours to complete. Overall this is a must buy game.

This game has it all,great graphics ,lots of puzzles,the most fun that I've had playing a game in the last year, My friends
thought it was the SHI*.

Im not really into Sci-Fi games or adventure games but this is a really enjoying game. I first played the demo and knew i had to have it. So I got on amazon.com and bought it. This is the funest game I have played in a long time. There are great graphics, well, awsome graphics, sweet looking aliens, and awsome voice. I dont know what others are saying about the game being 'too challenging' or 'impossible' because it is the perfect mix. They dont give too much health but you need to control how you use it because it is hard to find as you get moving in the game. I would give this game 5 stars but I dont like the auto-aim but I guess its worth 5 and a half stars.

This will be simple and short; those who say this game was bad only say that because they have jello for brains. its worth the time to play, regardless of potential simplicites or small lackings, truly it is...trust me folks, try this "run-and gun" game and i think you'll find it quite cool for what it is...