The English Pro_G have put a video online with the first ingame footage of Alone in the Dark 5. The spooky game is coming out later this year for PS3 and the XBOX 360.
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.
Are the developers japanese??? Reminds me of "ghost in the shell"-sound.
Certainly looks impressive from a visual standpoint.
Looks rather impressive and sort of eerie which is a good thing in my book! I wonder if this game is going to be anything like indigo prophecy which for a game made me actually feel like part of the story! Whatever the case I just really hope this game turns out to be good and these developers keep on making cool stuff to take my mind off life from time to time whenever I pop in a game!
That footage wasn't new at all. In fact I saw that trailer way back in late summer of last year. The trailer will always be impressive, but right now I'm looking for some new footage for this much hyped title. Maybe I've been spoiled by the quality of Gears of War and expect everything to have bang for the buck, not necessarily the graphics but the quality. Gears of War is to the 360 as Dead or Alive was to the Xbox. Dead or Alive was a launch title in the early life of the 360 and even after so many video game years, the games graphics and polished look has yet to be matched by most of the next gen games out now. Hopefully 2007 will be the rush of the games that the 360 was meant to have.
That looks very interesting. Would like to see allot more footage tho before i would purchase it.