Alone in the Dark is coming back later this year, and we recently got the chance to see how the game is shaping up. With a torch in one hand and a security blanket in the other, we crept over to Atari's London offices slightly regretting not being able to bring a sofa to hide behind.
When Alone in the Dark emerged in 1992, it brought the nascent survival horror genre into the limelight by combining the latest technology--it was one of the first games to feature true 3D characters--with intelligent puzzles, nonlinear gameplay, and a pervasive mythos that expands beyond the game itself. The 1992 classic spawned two sequels at the time (in 1994 and 1995) as well as a 2001 follow-up, but none of these had the commercial or critical success of the original. Atari is hoping that the 2008 iteration will buck this trend, as the game is going back to its roots of pushing technical boundaries, free-roaming problem solving, and tapping into the current paranoid zeitgeist.
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Source: Gamespot
Mar 1, 2008, 03:05 PM
