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Alone in the Dark, originally known as Alone in the Dark 5 and Alone in the Dark: Near Death Investigation, is the fifth installment of the survival horror video game series under the same name created by Infogrames.

The game will be released on the PC, Xbox360, Wii and Playstation 2 and 3 on July 3rd 2008 for Australians. The series is supposedly the creator of the 3D survival horror genre beating the Resident Evil series by 4 years.

The game has a couple of features including episodic format, open endedness and fire.

There are a couple of videos that showcase the game's features:

• Firstly the Trailer that shows off the characters and it's awesome sound track.



• Fire - Tech demo that shows how fire plays a very important role in the game. You can burn down doors that are blocking your way!



• Real World Rules - Another tech demo showing the use of objects and their interactions with the environment and enemies.

A note about the episodic format: you're not going to wait a year or two for the next installment. The whole game is there and waiting for you to play, except each episodes ends with a cliffhanger and a teaser for the next episode. There are also summary episodes that help remind the player what their objectives are.

I'm going to get this game for sure, but not sure on what console.

Watch out steve, greazy is trying to take your job.

Doesnt look too bad, hopefully the gimmicks wont just be gimmicks.

Doesnt look too bad, hopefully the gimmicks wont just be gimmicks.

You mean like in HL2 with the gravity gun and how the game forced you to use it at certain times? I've read that fire is the main weakness of the monsters, whether that's a bad thing or a good thing is yet to be known.

Also, I should have steves job because he uses abbreviations like Resi for Resident Evil. Woolworths had an advertisement about Avocados in their stores, they abbreviated avocado into avo. Can you guess what avo sounds like? It was changed a week later.


last edited by sif greazy at 18:01:33 12/Jun/08

Nah i mean like "hey cool i can make this heal thing explode..." do it once then use a pistol to kill everything and use heal spray to heal.

Avo is a common abbreviation for avocado?

last edited by Bah at 18:15:07 12/Jun/08

It seems like you're going to be using fire as a force of light amongst other things but I can see where you're coming from.

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to this too, its meant to be a direct continuation on from the earlier Alone in the Dark games, with the main character actually being Edward Carnby (how it can be Edward Carnby is apparently part of the mystery behind the game).

And yeah, monsters that are afraid of the light or are hurt by the light are a staple of Alone in the Dark games.

looks good. like the inventory system and how you can make a weapon out of almost everything.