Kotaku reviewed the recently released Saw. But is it worth a purchase? Is it the game that survival-horror fans have been waiting for? Go to the source to find out.

First off, full disclosure: I've never seen any of the Saw movies. I'm not sure why. I guess I just fail to see their appeal. Along those same lines, I'm not really fond of survival horror games, either. In this case, though, I have a very good reason. It's because I'm a giant wuss.

Scary movies don't creep me out nearly as much as scary games do. It's one thing to yell at the dumb blonde on screen about how bad of an idea it is to go into that dark basement. It's another to be the one controlling the character who's about to go into that dark basement.

In Saw, much to my dismay, you don't control a sexy blonde. Instead, you play as Det. David Tapp, a character from the first Saw film (played by Danny Glover in the movie but not the game), who awakens in an abandoned insane asylum and discovers he's a piece of a deadly puzzle created by the Jigsaw Killer: After suffering a gunshot wound, Tapp was saved by Jigsaw, who removed the bullet and, in its place, embedded in Tapp's body a key. Your goal is to solve Jigsaw's puzzles and free each of six victims related to Tapp's past, and then escape from the asylum yourself. Meanwhile, there are others trapped in the asylum, and, for them, the only way out is to kill Tapp and get the key inside him.

Miss Razz via kotaku.com »