If you coud run in full Three-D motion and pull of all kinds of killer combos, then RE would lose it's point. It wouldn' be frightening at all, becaue 80% of the fear factor comes from being unable to react quickly. Whether intentional or not, the controls seem to simulate BAR and the fight of flight or freeze response.

That's not why I don't like it. I can deal with the camera, the slow response time, and the lack of being able to move in any direction. My complaint is literally the controls, not the game engine. It would be 100% better if they utilized both analog sticks. They didn't do this because at the time Resident Evil was being developed on the playstation, analog sticks didn't exist. Then they just went with it, and for some reason they wanted the remakes to be as faithful to the originals as possible, crappy control scheme included. Rotating in place before you can move???? C'mon, it's 2004!