Alone in the Dark rides the recent wave of survival horror remakes, and a dedicated showcase gave us our first look at how the classic is being rebuilt from the ground up. Last year, developer Pieces Interactive announced its plans to revisit the celebrated first game and reimagine it for a modern audience. Numerous sequels of varying quality followed, but it’s been many years since the series was culturally relevant. It even featured two playable characters with separate scenarios, an idea later adopted by Resident Evil 2.

Players explored a haunted building laden with elaborate puzzles and scary monsters, with gameplay emphasizing thoughtful management of scarce resources.

I guess SH will be the game to lead survival horror beyond the B-Movies (however enjoyable they could be.Before Resident Evil and Silent Hill, 1992’s Alone in the Dark helped lay the foundation for 3D survival horror before the genre even had a name. So I guess we'll have to wait for Silent Hill 2. They are very poorly animated (especially Aline Cedrac). My only real complaint would be the polygonal characters. The only drawback is that you can guess the ending, and thus, the whole story after only an hour or so of gameplay. This brings up the story, and it is a very decent one. The gameplay is basic Resident Evil, altough the inventory screen does add some 'new' features.you run around a deserted mansion and slowly discover what happened on Shadow Island. The monsters look pretty decent.and the backgrounds rival those of RE3. The lighting effects and the rendering used for the flashlight are extremely well done. The graphics are simply great for a PS1 title. Turns out Infogrammes were really devoted to making this a special game.still, they could have done better. So I took it home just last week and hoped for a revelation. So when AITD: The new nightmare was announced (it's been a while.), I was more than thrilled. I used to play Alone in the Dark 1 and 2, and it became obvious that if any game was to give the genre the boost it needs, it would have to be the one that started it all. Since then, I have played through countless tired imitations.only a few of which captured the genuine atmosphere of the first RE. I have been a huge fan of survival horror, ever since I started playing Resident Evil for the PSX some four years ago.

Download alone in the dark 3 review