Rise of Nightmares

Worth PlayingBrian Dumlao

7/10

Rise of Nightmares offers a spine-tingling horror experience that uses Kinect controls to give players new encounters filled with fearful anticipation and terror.

COGConnectedTrevor Houston

60/100

When the Kinect arrived on the scene last year, Microsoft pitched it as family gaming peripheral for the Xbox 360.  It’s main selling point was that it was full motion body controls promising to get your family off the couch.  The peripheral sold millions and was off to a fantastic start in the first 60-days of launch.  Unfortunately, some of that momentum has been lost in recent months.  Perhaps it is just the lull of summer releases or perhaps it is the lack of quality games.  Regardless, the popularity of the Kinect seems somewhat stalled at this point.  Nevertheless, the Kinect is still re...

VGChartzVGChartz Staff

4.2/10

One long nightmare of bad game design.After a short prologue in which your character dies by being squished in an Indiana Jones-esque closing wall [...]

IGNJack DeVries

4/10

I’ll hand it to SEGA: Rise of Nightmares is an ambitious title, and it’s even functional for the most part (aside from the most basic of actions, walking). But ambition and basic functionality alone don’t make a game good. The ironic thing about Rise of Nightmares is that the control scheme is so basic it comes off feeling like a game for kids, when it tries so damn hard not to be. Even if you like the novelty of chopping off undead heads longer than I did, a bad horror game is a bad horror game. And Rise of Nightmares is a monster.

VideogamerTom Orry

4/10

Rise of Nightmares isn't a good game, but at the same time it's a novelty you might want to give a look.