Alone in the Dark - Inferno
Genre : Action Adventure
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- Blood and Gore
- Strong Language
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Slide into the jacket of paranormal investigator Edward Carnby yet again as you fight to survive one apocalyptic night and uncover the mystery of Central Park. All-new updates to make the game fully next-generation will bring you the deepest Alone in the Dark experience ever! The camera has been reworked to allow full range of motion, letting you completely immerse yourself in the mass destruction you cause. Driving has been updated for better control, and a new tutorial early in the game teaches the use and importance of Spectral Vision. And 59th Street, one of the best levels, has been made even better!
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5
Fairly Surprising
Before I picked this game up I had already heard enough negative feedback on it that I was hesitant of even picking it up. Being the survival horror fan that I am, I felt obligated to give it a shot.<br><br>THE NEGATIVES<br><br>First, this is no survival horror game. It felt more like a disaster movie with monsters. Central Park gets cut-off but great chasms from the rest of New York City. You play the unfortunate Edward Carnby, who has no idea who he is. The character build-up is poor to say the best. You don't get to know any of the characters by the time the game ends.<br><br>Second, the game is buggy as can be. When your driving around, the game will get choppy at times. It does this especially when you are traveling at high speeds. The combat system is bad too. You have to ready your action before you can attack with melee weapons and in first person mode you move at half-speed.<br><br>THE POSITIVES<br><br>The story overall wasn't bad if it didn't feel rushed or so rusty. A little bit more fine-tuning and it could have panned out pretty well. At least it wasn't a generic monster or evil corporation story type.<br><br>The inventory system, though a little slow to work with is pretty cool. I liked the whole combining standard items into useful ones. Sticky molotov cocktails are a clear favorite. Flashlight was handy in parts but overall not necessary to the game. You rarely ever were truly walking around in the dark.<br><br>I give this game a 5/10 because it was a fair game. It was better than my initial expectations and entertained me at moments. Like I said earlier it is buggy even after the few months in between the early release on the XBox 360 and other consoles to this one. You would think that they would be able to clean it up a little bit. If they did, then wow this game was really bad before the PS3 release.
(member since 2008)
reviewed on 12/8/08
9
Alone in The Dark is interesting
Alone in The Dark is a very interesting game, you would like this game if you enjoy games like Resident Evil by Capcom or the game Siren from the PSN network.<br><br>The Atari Studio, eden has made a very complex game that revolved a whole lot into the games ambient elements, physics, and many other realistic attributes. The graphics are stunning and physics of fire is very realistic. The Player's motion and damage which has made this game very difficult, until you get use to it, is very realistic as well. Alone in The Dark really takes time to adjust to it, and you might not like it at all if you are not a very patient gamer. The entire world of Alone in The Dark has various obstacles that will leave you running back an forth in belief you forgot to do something and leaving you hoping the game displays a tip for you.<br><br>Several cool aspects is being able to taper things together to make various sorts of explosive, weapon modifications, being able to hot wire cars, able to blow up locked doors, being able to bait and lure demons to you, very Intelligent A.I., and/or using the ambient world elements of like fire, electricity, and light to get rid of any demons that are baring a obstacle around you.<br><br>This is a top notch game if you like very difficult games that you have to pay attention to the world around you and love to encounter a ton of different obstacles. Other then just needing to get use to the difficult motion of the character, this game is worth a try, because the story is riveting, the world detail is awesome, and you never really do much of the same thing over and over. Watching the fire move and turn what ever it touches to hot ambers is very amazing game detail.<br><br>Alone in The Dark, will not be for everyone, but is great fun, interesting story, amazing detail, Brilliant A.I., and keeps the player busy with almost always something new to endeavor.
(member since 2003)
reviewed on 11/22/08
7
Don't judge it by its controls or demo...
because that's what I did, and I wasn't even going to rent this game at first but I did anyway. Turns out once you get passed the beginning the controls don't matter much because you mostly use firearms and other (creative) items.<br><br>BUT what made this game so enjoyable was its story, sure everything else is mediocre but the story kept me up and the ending..well you'll find out.
(member since 2009)
reviewed on 4/7/09
2
Dude, seriously?
Controlls are frustrating, the driving is extremely weak, You start out putting out fires in the dark and knocking down doors with a fire extinguisher<--lame. the characters are robotically animated and irritating. When you kill an enemy you have to drag them into the fire which is insanely frustrating--you may have to play it to understand..you can only turn a half inch to the left or right with the body in your hand so you have to reposition yourself over and over untill you burn the dawgone body and it takes too long. When you go in a car you can look in the visor of the drivers side and have to get completely out and walk around to be in the passenger seat to look in the glove box! I tried to give this game a chance but it just drove me crazy
(member since 2008)
reviewed on 2/16/10
5
Great Gothic Feel
Alone in the dark is pretty much just another horror genre game. The story of this game I must say is rather gripping and will leave you on the edge of your seat from the beginning till the very end. One of the features about this game which rather annoys me is the ability to "Fast Forward" through chapters. You can literally put the game in and beat this game in less than 5 minutes. As a hardcore gamer this rather annoys me. Why do I want to play this game all the way through(Which I did in less than 6 hours game play) with some of the most annoying controls ever (EXAMPLE-To attack you have to lock on to the target with L1, move the right thumb stick down to up or left to right, repeat) when I can just skip to the ending. I must say that I am glad I did not give up on this one and played it out even though at times I just wanted 2 scream due to the horror of the controls. The darkness of the graphics bring out the feel of the game. Graphics=8, Controls/Movement=2, Story=8, Sounds/Music=7, Fun Factor=3, Replay Value=2 . OVERALL=5(Worth a play if you do not have something better in your game Q.)
(member since 2008)
reviewed on 12/1/08
7
A INFERNO worth going through!!!!!!!!!
Funny how this game was the starter for all things horror when it came to video games. And now it struggled oh so much to get back on that perch. The multi platform release was disastrous with many bugs. The PS3 version is the elite version with most bugs taken care of,. Story is driven and the setting as a dvd where you could see what happened before like in chapters is actually amazing.
(member since 2008)
reviewed on 1/21/09
7
Much better than expected
Ok, first things first...this version is much more playable than any of the other versions. Alone in the Dark was a surprisingly fun game that I enjoyed a lot. The graphics were pretty well done despite some technical issues and the controls are much more fluid than the 360 version. The story was intriguing but I felt that by the end of the game, the writer(s) didn't know how to end it and just ended it (despite there being 2 different endings). However, the gameplay is actually very unique in that there is a good amount of variety. Each chapter of the game felt fresh and never really felt repetitive which is really good. The game does have a lot of memorable moments and it was pretty cinematic. The audio is pretty well done as well as voice acting...well, for the most part at least. The voice acting is decent but there are some pretty dumb lines the main character says that were laughable. All in all, the game is really good and definitely worth playing because there was a good amount of ideas put into the game and it shows. Any fan of survival horror or just plain action adventure games should definitely give it a rental by all means.
(member since 2008)
reviewed on 11/24/08
10
All better now!
This is an excellent game. All the problems that plagued the 360 release (at least the ones that made me return it) have been fixed. Driving is now much easier, and the whole system seems a little more forgiving than before.<br><br>Believe me; this is as good as the 360 version was awful. A must for all survival horror fans. Only problem I had was that items are pretty scarce when in the open world segments.<br>
(member since 2008)
reviewed on 12/23/08
1
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this game toke 20 mins away from my life.i want it back.
(member since 2008)
reviewed on 11/6/09
3
A cool mess
Alone in the Dark is basically an adventure game with a survival horror atmosphere. Unfortunately, it's not really scary - it's more horror in the goofy sci-fi channel B-movie sense than in the Silent Hill sense.<br /><br />Gameplay is 3rd person action-adventure with some of the weirdest controls ever. There's a lot of "puzzle" solving, but the problem is the solution to every puzzle basically is either shooting something or blowing something up. The melee controls are absolutely awful - you essentially pick up stuff and "swing" your control stick. The end results are not visceral or intuitive, just awkward, particularly since your controls and the protagonist can get out of sync since Carnby get his weapon deflected or his attack repelled, but you can move your joystick anyway.<br /><br />Shooting is awkward. Melee is awkward. Puzzles are awkward. Camera is awkward. Graphics and sound are okay, with some real weird moments: one that sticks in my mind is the building collapsing and bursting into flame around the protagonist during a cutscene, but the animators didn't bother to actually animate a reaction to this, so Carnby just kind of stands around staring in one direction as everything around him blows up.<br /><br />The story and atmosphere are ambitious, but that doesn't mean they're good. The dialog is god-awful, even by videogame standards - this game was made by a French studio and it has the same quality in games like Silent Hill where you feel like something was lost (or made a lot more awkward) in translation. The main character comes across as a dull jerk - not an anti-hero, as they obviously intended, but just kind of an awkward, impulsive jerk.<br /><br />Too much ambition, not enough polish leads to a pretty shallow, awkward game with some really cool moments and ideas.
(member since 2008)
reviewed on 5/30/09
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