Saw The Videogame

I had a short look at this game. As you can imagine, it is based around nasty things happening to an onscreen character and the player's attempts to stop said horrible things happening.

I think one of the reasons for the success of the movie franchise is in the 'toe-curling' reflex - of imagining yourself in the character's (uncomfortable) position. That is lost in a videogame, with its not-quite realistic character models - unless the controller is shoved up the player's backside*, needing to be cut out with a scalpel within a time limit, it is just a succession of unpleasant things happening to an onscreen avatar who I don't have much of a connection with.

* biologically speaking, this would only be possible if a Wii version were planned