Atari's parent company Infogrames has already made clear the intention of leaving its child on the side of the road, hoping it'll figure out the way home by its lonesome. What's even worse is that Atari's essentially admitting the fixes it has planned may not be able to turn the ship around, stating in a report, "We cannot guarantee the completion of these actions or that such actions will generate sufficient resources to fully address the uncertainties of our financial position." Translation: We ain't gots a clue what be happenin'. There's no word really on what games Atari is going to kill to save money, but at this point you'd think that Alone in the Dark would be the last development hurrah -- but we'll see.
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Would not buy again.
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This isn't the Atari we know and love from our childhood, this is and evil entity that is cloaked under the nostalgic Atari name. The Atari we knew died a long time ago and left only it's name for the world to inherit, unfortunatly untold evils found said name and used it's power to attempt to destroy gaming as we know it.
If Atari is curious as to what they're doing wrong it's perhaps that consumers aren't as stupid as they use to be and slowly have stopped buying all these lame games that only serve to milk an established TV show to death. Some of us have also realized what shovelware is, are aware of it and stay far away from that godless type of game.
Maybe Atari should focus their efforts on a decent game? But even then, it's to late for such a thing. They have lost all respect in the gaming community and no matter how good any game they make we will shrug it off and laugh at them. I guess the best option for them is to continue pushing the bolder up a hillside, but never reaching the top. Selling off IPs and firing people is probably the smartest thing they've done in 10 years.
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No modern Adventure sequal :( I always hoped for it one day; oh well.
Sucks about Atari but in life people die and come back as brain-eating zombies who go out on crazy business ventures and fail.
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