Work your way through a haunted Central Park in Atari's cross-platform survival horror title, Alone In The Dark.
Alone in the Dark developer Pieces Interactive has been hit with layoffs a month after its release, as per the latest information.
That genuinely, genuinely sucks. The reboot has clear flaws, but it really felt like a solid first step for this team to receive *greater* investment.
That's standard. Teams are together for a Project, after its done some..and sometimes most devs are fired until the next Project is in the works and people are needed again. Only the core members stay in the time between the hot phase of the game development.
What’s annoying is people don’t understand how contractors work, either. All of this is uninformed knee-jerk reactions without any understanding of how employment works in this industry. There are key developers and staff that stay with a studio/publisher, but often times it’s a hire per project and then seeking new employment for a project. That’s how it’s always been…
That's a fair point too. I would say that in light of its tepid critical/commercial response and ongoing mass layoffs across the industry I think it's understandable for fans to worry about the longer-term implications. We'll see how it plays out in the future.
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "In one sense, it feels strange to even think Pieces Interactive had big shoes to fill with this series' legacy. Given what's come before, did it really? And yet, even when considering the last two flops over a two-decade span, there's still something about Alone in the Dark emblazoned on a title screen that carries a sense of revered history. In that respect, perhaps this reboot's best accomplishment is in honoring that spirit through its inventive world. It's also fair to emphasize knocks against its survival-horror design, some puzzle-solving, and so on; it certainly won't be considered a trendsetter like the 1992 classic. Still, the amount of goodwill wedded to its brighter qualities makes for something that dawdles the line between unfortunately-flawed and impressively-enticing."
The new Alone in the Dark remake doesn't do anything especially noteworthy, but that doesn't mean it's bad. It's just... cromulent.
for a game that looked so incredible this is truly a let down on an epic scale and now that I know what to expect I won't be getting the ps3 version which will have had more dev time on its side.
The even worse part, Atari and Phil Harrison said the Ps3 version wasn't where they wanted it in terms of quality. That is their exact words. So, that leads me to believe that if the xbox 360 version did meet their standards of quality and it turned out like this, then the Ps3 version is really going to be a huge bowel movement.
This was looking good aswell. I might wait for a few more reviews but it looks like another dissapointment.
I'm just glad I don't always blindly follow reviews.this game is innovative and quite fun.I don't see the cotrol issues.they work great and I have no problem.I wonder if the people who said the controls were bad are just atari haters and are trying to bring the game down.I give at least an 8 of 10.Great cinematic ingame sequences very good graphics, innovative controls that are intuitive and easy to use,and perfectly fine voice acting.I find any site thta rates this game low not worth my time ever again because they cant be trusted.For me ,this game is great. Its upsetting that the reviews will keep the lemmings from trying this game for themselves.
I should add that I'm playing mostly in first person view and that may account for the difference in opinion
I just dont get why there is a control problem.
left,right ,up,down on left analog is left, right, up ,down on screen.on the right stick moving it left swings weaopn left ,swing right it goes right,and so on ....why is that so hard for these fools?
i've played a few games that scored like this and really liked the games and i've played gaems that score really high and hated them.
it's not the scores that bother me, rather, the content in the reviews. the poor game mechanics and the tedious ending levels are what i'm concerned with.
That's a shame. This game looked like it had potential.