A pair of Spring Showcase Alone in the Dark videos

by Richard Mitchell { May 13th 2008 at 5:15PM }

Of all the things that could have been showcased for Alone in the Dark at Microsoft's Spring Showcase, we're not sure we would have picked the two sequences featured in these videos. Alone in the Dark is a survival horror game, right? As such, one would expect to be treated to sequences of surviving horrifying situations. Speaking literally, we suppose these videos do just that, but we were expecting some ghosts, monsters, a mutant insect, something. What we get is some ledge-grabbing platforming and a car escape sequence. Don't get us wrong, it doesn't look bad -- in fact, these are things you don't see in many other survival horror games -- but we're just waiting to see some gameplay that lives up to the atmosphere created by the cinematic trailers that have been released.

Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky and see the promised demo before the week is out. We're really hoping it will make believers out of us. We want to believe.

Read - Alone in the Dark 360 Spring Showcase 08: Facade Sequence Gameplay Trailer HD
Read - Alone in the Dark 360 Spring Showcase 08: Parking Gameplay Trailer HD

Tags: alone-in-the-dark, alone-in-the-dark-5, atari, eden, eden-games, gamers-day-08, spring-showcase-08

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fox318 @ May 13th 2008 9:40PM

Game looks great! I can't wait to play it!!

andyface @ May 14th 2008 6:14AM

hummm, not overly convinced.

Shimmying across ledges while things try and fall on you (or up you) could prove annoying and slow.

And the lady in the car could only be classed as annoying.

"Do we have to jump over this?"
"Lets seeeee!" (in a playful way)
"Hey!" (all moody like he's just nicked her phone as a joke)

what kind of a response it that? Meant to be being chased by scary monsters. But maybe if she was just screaming her head of for the whole thing it'd be more annoying.

I shall reserve judgement for the demo, but what I've seen of the other gameplay was good, this stuff seems a little annoying though.