It seems Atari doesn't like bad review ratings as they've started threatening European gaming sites with lawsuits for giving Alone in the Dark a bad score. Well, they're not saying it's because the game received a bad score of course, they're claiming the sites must have used an illegally obtained copy and used that for their reviews.

4Players.de, who gave AotD a meagre 68%, didn't in fact give the worst score up to now. Norwegian site Gamereactor.no gave a 3/10.

Meanwhile, Tor-Steinar Nastad Tangedal from Norwegian site Gamer.no has contacted Kotaku with a similar story:

Atari's comment on the matter: "No Comment".

So Atari is putting pressure on game sites that did not receive a copy of the game from Atari themselves. Since when do you need to obtain a copy directly from a pub

With Alone in the Dark being just about the only game being released by Atari this year that could actually make some big bucks, it doesn't look very good for the publisher

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