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Best Sci-Fi Horror around.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 11
Date: October 23, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Finally, a shooter game with a Good story line. I hadn't seen one since Half Life that impressed me until now. To start out with, the graphics in this game are second to none, as well as the voice acting. This game plays out like a good movie, with wonderful background music and a few rock songs in the right places to boot. It'll make you -want- to finish the game and see what happens next. You might even shed a tear or two, I did. The controls are wonderful and add to the enjoyment of the game. The auto-aim helps a lot as well to make the frustration level of RLH go way down, unlike most shooter games. It does get more difficult towards the end, with Aliens you Can't auto-aim at, but over all they did a really great job at keeping this game fun. If you're looking for a good shooter but want to feel like you know the characters your fighting for, this is the game for you.

Better then Resident Evil in many ways

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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!!

Does 12 year old gamer ever go outside the house?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 8
Date: October 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Honestly I can say this game had me scratching my head on whether to buy it or not. But after debating with myself for about an hour at the store I decided to pick it up. And I must the gameplay is amazing. Don't listen to the others as to "sluggish" controls and confusing commands. That is only a pessimistic view. The voice overs are fantastic though I could have done without Star Trek: Voyager's Kate Mulgrew and her Man Butter voice she gargles out every time her mouth opens. At least the character in the game is almost a perfect recreation of what she looks like in real life. Other than that, BUY THIS GAME, YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT.

Reminds me of Systemshock2

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: December 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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....

RLH -- Hunt or be Hunted

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 15, 2005
Author: Amazon User

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.

The best Game Of the Year 2002

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: October 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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*.

The Best Alternative to Fox's "Alien" Universe (In A Game)

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: December 03, 2002
Author: Amazon User

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!

great is not a strong enough word

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: January 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game is absolutely amazing. It is rare to come across a good and so thoroughly developed game of the science fiction genre. This is no corny Edd Woods reminescent walk in the park with crappy aliens and even crappier plot. The voicing talent makes the game so much more real, as does the eerie lighting, fog effects, and the enviroment responsive sounds. Even though the name may seem a little... ok, really bad, you can't judge the game by it. RLH is more than worthy of the price asked for what you'll be getting. Have fun.

RLH

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: December 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game, poorly reviewed as I have seen before, is so much fun and a game you can play over 3 times.
Great videos, gameplay, and the music is the best. Breaking Benjamin soundtracks and other spooky music to keep you in the mood.

Very recommended for everyone.
PS2 though is better than the xbox game.

Best of the Best

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 16
Date: June 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I was totally blown away when I played a demo of this game, it was straight from Japan so I couldnt understand the text and the dialouge but from what I saw the game is a total killer. Everything from the enviroments to the charecters themselves are very detailed, almost as if it was tooken straight from a Steven Speilberg movie or from a Sci Fi channel original movie. One thing that I love is the camera angles that are always perfect and ajustable, The voice acting was real good my brother thinks it was terrible but I liked it and I hope the U.S. version is just as good. One thing I didnt like was the difficulty, this game can be really hard so if you cant beat games that involve a serious challenge then you should buy Tekken 4 which was also on the demo, But if you are a die hard adventure fan like my older brother then you will love everything about this game.

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