The eerie early scenes fade into
standard space horror panic and given how crowded that particular subgenre is, The Cloverfield Paradox emerges as a pale imitation.
Not exact matches
What follows is, on paper,
standard horror - thriller stuff: our heroes trapped in a confined
space with all sorts of evil - human and canine.
That style of
horror - themed shooters is reflected in games like Dead
Space, or even Bioshock, which use spooky environments as set dressing for
standard gunplay, without a hint of what made RE4's
horror mechanics special.