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Alone in the Dark | 
| From: Atari
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 7240
Format: Cd
Platform: Windows Xp
ESRB: Mature
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Age: 17 - 20 years
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 27388
UPC: 742725273887
EAN: 0742725273887
ASIN: B00113HUZ8
Release Date: June 24, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
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| Features:
| • | A New Inventory System Players utilize the pockets of protagonist Edward Carnby to hold items which they can view, switch and combine without leaving the game. | | • | Narrative intensity Taking its cues from blockbuster TV dramas, the story is told in a TV season style narrative structure based around episodes that deliver maximum intensity throughout and keep the player hooked. | | • | A Captivating Story Centered in iconic Central Park long-time series protagonist and paranormal specialist Edward Carnby returns to delve into the frightening events occurring in the Big Apple. | | • | Real World Rules In-Game movement has been designed to allow players to do almost anything that is physically possible in the real world. | | • | Photographic Rendering Game developer Edens Propriety Twilight technology creates a lavishly detailed game world with highly realistic and advanced cinematographic effects. |
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Amazon.com
There's something strange and frightening happening in the middle of New York City's Central Park; something whispered to have been intentionally kept secret; something that players are compelled to explore in iAlone in the Dark/i.p/Known today as a safe haven for New Yorkers yearning for relief from the stresses of their chaotic metropolis, history records that Central Park was built on a useless swamp, yet as the New York City skyline hurtled towards the sky over the last 150 years, making the city the most expensive real estate in the world, the park has remained untouched. Why? Civic pride? Perhaps, but the recent strange happenings in and around the park are casting doubt on that, doubts that require investigating.p/table width="200" cellpadding="15" align="left"trtd align="center"img alt=""Alone in the Dark" game logo" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/aitd-logo.jpg" border="0"brbrsmallcenterbiThe return of an iconic series/i/b/center/small/td/tr/tabletable align=right width=250 cellpadding=10trtdimg alt="Edward Carnby" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/aitd-01-sm.jpg" border=1 align=topbrsmallcenterbiParanormal PI Edward Carnby.br/ View larger./i/b/center/small/td/trtrtdimg alt="Stunningly spooky views of NYC" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/aitd-02-sm.jpg" border=1 align=topbrsmallcenterbiStunningly spooky views of NYC.br/ View larger./i/b/center/small/td/trtrtdimg alt="The odd wildlife of Central Park" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/aitd-03-sm.jpg" border=1 align=topbrsmallcenterbiThe odd wildlife of Central Park.br/ View larger./i/b/center/small/td/trtrtdimg alt="A whole new inventory system" src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/aitd-04-sm.jpg" border=1 align=topbrsmallcenterbiA whole new inventory system.br/ View larger./i/b/center/small/td/tr/tablebEnter Edward Carnby, Paranormal Investigator/bbr/Despite the title, iAlone in the Dark/i is actually the fifth game in a series that dates back to 1992 and centers around the experiences of Edward "the reptile" Carnby. A paranormal investigator by trade, Carnby is looking for answers to the strange events and horrific creatures reported in and around the park, but gets more than he bargained for when all the mysteries and terrors of the park spill out over the course of one apocalyptic night. It's the player's task to avoid the new frightening dangers of the park as you search for the answers to what these supernatural occurrences mean and why they are happening.p/bGameplay Based on Full Player Immersion/bbr/Packed full of action and vivid in its realism iAlone in the Dark/i goes to the extreme to keep players engaged and immersed by plunging them into the heart of the action in real-time at every turn and challenging them to survive using full movement control. The goal here is to allow players to do or at least feel that they can do more or less whatever is possible in real life, within the game.p/Need to avoid a blast of steam or an eruption of fire that has shot up in your path? You can simply side-step it or you can handle the obstacle with a little more panache by using the environment around you, for example by swinging around it using reachable pipes or wires. In another situation you may be challenged by attacking monsters. No problem. You can take the path of least resistance, again by side-stepping them or placing an obstacle between yourself and them, but if you are feeling like taking out a little aggression you can pick up a board, chair, box, etc. and have at it. Nearly anything that you come across that would be usable in real life is usable in game and can be wielded in several different ways.p/In addition, game developer Eden Studios has done away with a few in-game conventions in favor of real life upgrades. Instead of old-fashioned health bars iAlone in the Dark/i uses realistic body damage and physiological effects to show players how much damage has been done to Carnby by the new dangerous nightlife of Central Park. Basically this means if Carnby has been taking a licking he's going to be a little bloody. Monsters use sensory perception of all kinds to find their victims, so players need to keep aware of Carnby's physical state, as well as the impact he has on his surroundings. Also gone are traditional inventory systems that take players out of the game while you switch or check items in your possession, replaced by an in-game inventory system where items are carried in the folds of Carnby's trench coat. This allows you to stay in the action the whole time. Sticking with the realism theme, the number of items that Carnby can carry is limited, but since ingenuity is built into the system, items can be combined or their uses altered, mostly with tape, so players can adjust as challenges arise.p/bTV Style Intensity That Keeps You Hooked/bbr/Built around a unique television style episodic narrative game structure, the storyline of iAlone in the Dark/i is split into a number of distinct 30-40 minute episodes, doled out one at a time as you play. This new way to progress through the storyline ensures that players can enjoy the game regardless of the amount of time they have available without ever feeling lost. Each time a saved game is launched, the episode will begin with a video summary of the previous episode to quickly re-immerse the player in the story, removing the need to remember where you were or what you were doing at the end of your last play session. In addition, every episode will also close with a nail-biting, cliff-hanger ending to rattle players' nerves. And when you choose to leave the game, a video teaser of the next episode will play to leave players always wanting more.p/bVivid Photographic Rendering/bbr/Even on a bad day, and this will be a bad one, Central Park and New York City are something to see. With Game developer Eden's proprietary Twilight technology and rendering engine, players can expect to see everything from the City's famous landmarks to the manifestations of the evil that have been festering in Central Park come to life as if you were there. This lavishly detailed game world takes advantage of highly realistic and advanced cinematographic effects including depth of field, camera focus, numerous light sources, moisture, reflections and High Dynamic Range effects.p/Whether it's the innovative game play, the unique episodic game structure, the advanced physics or the return of a ground-breaking protagonist recast in the modern era, iAlone in the Dark/i holds something for players willing to take on the mysteries and dangers at the heart of Central Park.p/
Product Description
Alone in the Dark, the video game that launched survival gaming and set the standard within the genre, returns with an extraordinary action-packed within a highly detailed, free-roaming environment, featuring a mixture of astonishing real-time physics and full environmental interaction.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 Really really bad November 4, 2008
I played this game until I got the first bad guy/gal. Trying to fight her was horrible. The fighting was slow, hard to control and I couldn't even swing the objects. I was smashing the hit button over and over and they guy would just not do anything. I promptly unistalled it and will try not to think of the wasted money on it. br / It also took like an hour to load which I don't totally understand. Maybe it was my computer.br /
Hello, Microsoft? October 30, 2008
Perfect example of the slime that makes its way from the Xbox trash receptical to the Games for Windows! marketing drive.br /br /A) Immediately upon entering the menu and selecting "configuration", I am trapped. Not frozen (the mouse moves) but no button on my keyboard or mouse click returns from "calibrating" to any part of the game. I am forced to quit. So I can't change any settings. Sweet. That and the sensitivity in game is so high that a twitch of the mouse does a 360...br /br /B) um, nuff said.
 Not worth the trouble October 29, 2008
Quite frankly it started off as a decent game and I was interested to see where the plot would go however it quickly became tedious thanks to the horrible controls. Forget trying to fend off the creatures with a keyboard/mouse. The xbox 360 controller for windows solves part of the problem but they could have done a much better job with the control mapping. I did enjoy some of the driving missions and the game has a decent soundtrack, but not much else going for it.
Manifests badly on a PC October 28, 2008
I bought this game at target for $7.98, and I would return it if I could.br /br /The ideas behind it are interesting and innovative, and the graphics are spectacular. Gameplay on the PC, however, can only be described as painful. The controls are awkward, and the puzzles are, too often, situations you can only figure out by dying over and over again (starting too far back each time). Movement is a major issue, one that I assume works out much better on one of the console versions.br /br /If you are interested in trying it out, don't try the PC version.
Oh man, this one is really bad.... October 27, 2008
This is probably one of the most horribly executed games pertaining to game play in history. This is the only game I have ever actually returned to Amazon for a credit.
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