PRODUCT PRESENTATION

Boxart: Alone in the Dark
Pegi-18+ESRB-M-17+descr
Blood and Gore, Strong Language, Violence

Alone in the Dark

Rating pending
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System requirements

  • Operating System: Windows XP/Vista 32-bit & 64-bit
  • Processor: Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz or Athlon X2 +3800 (Intel Pentium 4 3.4 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 +4000 recommended)
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM (2GB recommended)
  • Hard Disk Space: 9.5 GB free
  • Video: NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or ATI Radeon X1950 or better (NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX or ATI Radeon X1950 XTX or better recommended)
  • Sound: DirectX version 9.0c-compatible sound card
  • DirectX: DirectX version 9.0c (included) or higher
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    Central Park is hiding a secret. Built as a safe haven not only for the people of New York, but for something else entirely, generations of guardians have long protected the truth, preserving the vast parkland while the most expensive city in the world reached skyward on its fringes. Now the truth can no longer be contained, and paranormal investigator Edward Carnby finds himself inexplicably cast into the eye of the storm as over the course of one apocalyptic night he must uncover the earth-shattering secret behind Central Park. New York will never be the same again.

    Inspired by the gripping style of contemporary TV dramas, the game delivers a new degree of narrative intensity, presented as a complete season format of episodes each containing action, twists and cliff-hangers. Bursting with innovative technology, including unprecedented environmental interaction, revolutionary physics, advanced artificial intelligence, stunning visuals, and uniquely immersive user interface, Alone in the Dark breaks gaming clichés to fulfil the next-gen promise and deliver a new kind of entertainment experience.

    • Central Park: one of the world’s most iconic and best loved urban landmarks, Central Park has been accurately reproduced using satellite data and thousands of photographs.
    • Captivating story: The story reveals the conspiracy behind Central Park and challenges beliefs on the afterlife, based on ideas and theories drawn from real-world spiritual philosophies.
    • Narrative Intensity: taking cues from blockbuster TV dramas, the story is told in a TV season-style narrative structure to deliver the maximum intensity throughout, keeping the player hooked.
    • Real world rules: revolutionary technology brings a new level of environmental interaction to the gameplay where anything you could do in real life, you can do in the game.
    • Immersion: the player is plunged into the heart of the action in real-time with full movement control, in-game inventory system, on-body damage and healing system, and physiological effects.
    • Photographic Rendering: Eden’s proprietary Twilight technology and rendering engine create a lavishly detailed game world with highly realistic and advanced cinematographic effects including depth of field, camera focus, numerous light sources, moisture, reflections and High Dynamic Range effects.

    Only for sale in the US

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    REVIEWED BY CRISPY GAMER

    Alone in the Dark is a stunning disappointment

    Written by William Abner 2008-07-07

    Hot: Sharp graphics and art direction; Some of the puzzles are great; DVD chapter skipping is a novel idea

    Not: From the inventory system to the camera to the gameplay -- it's just a train wreck.

    Car rides are anything but thrilling.What did Atari and Eden Games do to Edward Carnby? I remember Edward as a simple old gent with a moustache who investigated a creepy mansion in Louisiana that happened to be infested with creatures from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos in the original Alone in the Dark. That was 16 years ago, when running the game on a 486SX 25 MHz machine was all the rage. The Edward Carnby in the 2008 version of Alone in the Dark is gruff, tough, has scars running down his face, and says "f***" a lot. In fact a lot of people in the game say "f***" a lot. This is supposed to make it sound edgy and realistic, I guess. Turns out I miss the old Edward, and the old mansion, and the feeling of complete solitude that the original provided. These new characters can curse, scream, and yell all they want; it doesn't change the fact that this latest spin on the series is a monumental disaster. The inventory system is highly irritating.It's really quite shocking. Alone in...

    Read full review at Crispy Gamer

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