Can you elaborate on what you meant by horrible controls?
Hmm where to start.
The first time I played I had rebound jump, which caused me not to be able to finish a section of the tutorial for some reason. Resetting the controls to default and then not reassigning jump fixed it though.
The movement controls are just fugly, Maybe im just spoiled by Gears of War but using the mouse to look around just feels completely wrong in WALL-E for some reason. So I use the keyboard, which doesn't feel all that much better but the way it works is WASD are like 'move in the X and Y axis' but moving the camera can change the axis, its really fucked up. Then i have the arrow keys to move the camera which iI find works nice just Holding W to go forward and the left/right arrow keys to make decent turns.
Then theres zooming in to first person mode, you cant move around just look and use your laser. But you cannot use the damn mouse to look around, so its a pain to try to hit something with your laser using the WASD keys.
Its really hard to explain but its pretty bad.
Try the demo though. I'm guessing the full game is more fun than the demo considering it only has 2 levels and it took me like 10 levels to get the controls down.
http://www.worthdownloading.com/download.php?gid=3303&id=15405
Overall im happy I picked this one up though.