I am hesitant to put this here, but in all honesty and as much as I appreciate how this provides a new level of realism to the game play, it can be more of a pain than enjoyable. What's bad in I Am Alive? - The stamina gauge and scarcity of resources. All in all, game moves just slow enough and fast enough at times to keep me interested and ready to keep uncovering what might happen next in the story. I'm a huge fan of this type of game play as 10 minutes you may spend somewhat peaceably exploring around and maneuvering a strategic climb and the very next 2 minutes be faced with an intense combat situation. The pace of the game - I Am Alive moves slow at times (exploring and scavenging) and fast at others (think combat and climbing scenarios with quickly depleting health/stamina). This inevitably ends up making every twist and turn of the game suspenseful and stressful, but yet exhilarating all the same and when (and if) you manage to survive these encounters, you'll feel like you really survived the ordeal. The player is tasked to swiftly seek out which thugs have guns and which don't, differentiate between the tougher ones and the weaker ones, and make quick decisions such as: use up the 1 bullet resource they have, sneak attack and then fire, back one up to a cliff and push them off, etc - all in a matter of about 1 minute. The groups of street thugs that you encounter throughout the game react in such a way that you are forced, as the gamer, to think fast on your feet in any given combat situation. So whats good about I Am Alive? - The combat is completely unique (so far I have never encountered combat scenarios as unforgiving and perhaps realistic as this). Perhaps this is due to I Am Alive's harsher game play style which incorporates a stressful stamina gauge, few and far between resources, and unforgiving combat situations. While the two games have been cited numerous times in comparison (and some of which I can definitely see) they play a great deal differently. I was worried at first that my top notch experience with The Last of Us would somehow overshadow I Am Alive, but so far, this has not been so. I was worried at first that my top My experience of I Am Alive so far has been one of intensity, intrigue, and just plain fun/entertainment.

My experience of I Am Alive so far has been one of intensity, intrigue, and just plain fun/entertainment.

I am alive, ps3