Luckily, you are able to use firearms (although I only discovered two pistols throughout the entire game) to dish out some punishment.
For example, a bandage combined with a bottle of spirits, fused with some sticky tape becomes a sticky Molotov cocktail. Here you can pick up items such as first aid sprays, flammable liquids and mosquito sprays etc and then combine them with other items to create makeshift weapons. Alone in the Dark offers some shining moments of inspiration, and these come in the items management that are synonymous with adventure games of this ilk. On the bright side, there’s lot of melee weapons lying around to pick up and use, and I guess what is really neat is being able to set fire to items and then temporarily being able to use them against foes that are only killed by fire. The driving mode in several levels is the most intuitive and easiest to play, considering the difficulties of the rest of the game, but hey how hard should driving be? Alone in the Dark I had to actually use my Xbox 360 controller in order to make the game playable at all. Unfortunately the controls (especially for the Mouse and Keyboard) can be quite tedious and downright frustrating at times. An ingenious way of getting the player into the action without having to explain player controls in too much detail.
There’s no real need to have played past games in the series (although the first four are highly recommended), as the action and story unfolds before you in such a way that this is a fresh gaming experience, and a distinct departure from the old school adventure games from the early days of PC and console gaming.Īlone in the Dark introduces the player the various game mechanics during the opening chapters, think of the first chapters at the tutorial for the rest of the game. Set in a modern day New York City and predominantly around the city’s Central Park area, Alone in the Dark offers another slice of action adventuring for today’s gamers.
The Alone in the Dark series has had a long and rich existence as a video game and Eden games with Atari has brought the adventure into the modern age, with the original character from the first game, Edward Carnby making a rather strange return, despite being old enough to be worm food. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)ĭeveloped by: Eden Games (PC, Xbox 360) Hydravision Entertainment.
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