The Shrine

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>Does a good job of creating a freaky-ass atmosphere, but the controls are absolutely atrocious (worse than SH1). Hand to hand combat (at least with the board with a nail in it) is a joke. I'm about three hours in, and there have been a few too many situations where I've died simply due to the fact that the controls are <b>really</b> shitty. It's not even the Resident Evil control scheme that's to blame, just bad programming. Silent Hill 1 had this same problem, only instead of Konami fixing it, it got worse.

Aside from that though, it's fun so far. The control just takes a while to get used to.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Survival horror games are the only genre that can survive poor controls IMO. Their appeal simply isn't in the gameplay, but in the experience</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>I think I'm the only one I know of who had no qualms with RE2's controls.</div>

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah really, I'm pretty good at playing RE, I can move quite well.......Hell I was dodging Nemisis and Tyrant quite flawlessly.</div>

<div style='font: 9pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Same here. Code Veronica was the only RE game that I thought had poor controls (mainly because of DC controller).</div>

<div style='font: 10pt "arial narrow"; text-align: left; padding: 0% 5% 0% 5%; '>I'm used to it, and often find myself defending it. Silent Hill 2's controls are just sluggish and sometimes unresponsive (although they're not as bad as I made them out to be in my initial post, I was just REALLY angry at a couple parts of the game).</div>

<div style='font: 10pt verdana, tahoma; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>RE2 is the only survival horror game I've played, and I've heard complaints about its controls.</div>