Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare

THE GOOD:
Beautifully rendered backdrops, frightening atmospheric noises, challenging gameplay.

THE BAD:
Frequent backtracking.

SUMMARY:
The Alone in the Dark series was the first to break the mold of the Survival Horror genre, and it shows. The fourth installment, The New Nightmare, takes the thrill of playing a horror game and beats you over the head with it until you want to cry. This is a great game for people who love to have to occasionally put their controller down because their hands are shaking. Alone in the Dark has great backgrounds that mesh perfectly with the music, sound effects and atmosphere. Gameplay is a bit erratic, but it makes up for that with a brilliant plot and challenging puzzles. Combat is balanced with problem solving, and the enemy monsters are a mix of classical and outlandish. And if the strange noises in the background don't creep you out sufficiently, they've thrown in...

THE GOOD:
Graphics, sound, characters, storyline...everything!!!

THE BAD:
Nothing

SUMMARY:
This game is both exciting and fun.

PERFECT! 5 out of 5!!!

Fantastic graphics and sounds are blended together to make a recipe for the greatest game I have ever played!
The storyline is one of the best I have ever seen and it just sends a shiver down your spine. You tingle with anticipation wondering what is around the next corner. Friend or foe?
There is such a great variety of items and armery to choose from that is hidden in various places around the games location. Finding them and finding your way provide4s a good chanlenge with in the game and it really makes you realise the perils of being 'Alone In The Dark'!

THE GOOD:
The storyline, the illumination system, the walkie-talkie use, and the cameras and scenarios

THE BAD:
The monsters´design could be better, they are more funny than scary, except the scorpions and the bosses

SUMMARY:
I recommend this game to everyone who calls itself a gamer, and likes adventure games. The two different scenarios add lot of playability: if you like story and puzzles, play as Aline Cedrac, but if you like blood, action and shots, play as Edward Carnby.

THE GOOD:
Nice graphics, good easy to get used to game play, nice creepy feeling

THE BAD:
It was kinda like Nocturne without the really good shadows.

SUMMARY:
I really enjoyed it

THE GOOD:
Light switches, miles of corridors, cool guns and darkness.

THE BAD:
after playing through with Carnby I was little dissapointed not to recieve any in-game cheats for my next play through. However that doesnt hurt this games abit.

SUMMARY:
Horror fans, dont miss this one, its a beauty. Anyone who likes a good mystery and doesnt mind a little fright should give this a try. theres something very sweet and satisfing about this game... Its the first game ive played in a while that really justified its price.

Well, this game is quite great, i guess ...... Because I don't really like the graphics..... actually I like the background graphics, but the graphics for the moving things like the character that we're using, the objects that in our inventory, and many more !! But the things I like about this game is that we can use the torchlight and the weapons are quite great!!But, I think it's still need some work ...........

THE GOOD:
It was terrifying. Great story line.

THE BAD:
Being ALone In The Dark!!

SUMMARY:
I really love this game. I am still playing it. I just can't seem to pull my self away from it for very long. I loved the fear it puts in you. The graphics really look Great and the music pulls you in.

THE GOOD:
THE MUSIC!!!!! it totally freaked me out the first time i played it.the monsters creeping out of the shadows made me jump once or twice or thrice.....the graphics were good like RE3.

THE BAD:
well,when i inserted the 2nd disc,i expected a more interwining story.instead, the develepors chose the easy way out; more monsters.that really BITES!!!

SUMMARY:
u buy it 'n' u will die a happy...err...zombie?
its worth the money if yer in it for the scares.
TURN THOSE LIGHTS OUT IF U DARE.......

Now that I've finished the game with Carnby and the initial excitement has died down, I can write a fuller review of this game.

First the good:
The music and sound effects are excellent, you have the spooky, eerie effects as in Resident Evil, but some really dark and menacing music with a lot of bass guitar as in Silent Hill, both go together well. As for the sound effects, well let's just say that on more than one occasion, a piercing human scream or the blood-curdling roar of a nearby demon really does shit you up!
Next the graphics, backgrounds are nice as you'd expect, I wouldn't say that they are better or worse than those of R.Evil 3, just the same. The torch is nice, but due to the Playstation's limitations and the fact that the ojects onscreen are'nt 3D they don't cast real time shadows, but it's not a problem really. Characters and monsters are fine, if alittle blocky, but then all graphics on the PS don't look as sharp now that the PS2 is out.
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