I for one, loved it! It is without a doubt my favorite game of '08, of course if you wan't the desired effect, play it alone at midnight, with all the lights off, surround sound blasting, other than that, it isn't very scary, it also helps if you're playing on impossible, the enemies drain 1 bar of health every hit, it genuinly gets scary, aside from that, good story (its original, if you care for backstory, movie, G.novel...i found it original anyway) decent graphics and really fun to play, it gets my seal of approval, which holds absolutley NO weight as of yet unfortunately