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are so densely packed with cliches from the horror and shooter genres that it's hard to imagine the game could blossom into something more sophisticated. Yet with a little time, developer Day 1 Studios unleashes a finely melded title, if one steeped in the thematically over-familiar. The game, which assumes the popular first-person format most famously championed by is not quite as aggressively and unrelentingly terrifying as some of its contemporaries. But nonetheless, it remains a very frightening game that doesn't shy away from violence, and its scarier moments are consistently well crafted. Best enjoyed as a two-player cooperative experience, the game actually does a better job as a shooter than a horror title, and the gun battles and set pieces are among the most polished and engrossing seen in these genres for some time.