Edge writes: From an extensive look at various scenarios from its most recent builds, Eden Studios' New York horror title is looking a lot more like a game than during previous viewings.
It's certainly heavily story-led, with Eden evidently having put much work into various narrative tricks. It has no distracting HUD – Carnby's body shows his injuries, and particularly heavy damage causes his eyesight to blur, requiring a click-in of a stick to clear. It's an interesting piece of design, even if it does force players to go blind at the moment they need their vision the most. It's used well during the opening sequence, however, in which Carnby wakes up, eyes glazed from being drugged or beaten, and requiring frequent presses to see what's going on.
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.
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.
anticipated game in my list this year, and far cry 2.
I was watching x league.tv (a digital channel here in the uk) and the lead developer from Atari was on reviewing games and promoting this game. When asked what platfroms this game is released on his reply was "first the xbox 360 and pc" then a few months later "the wii and ps2", he never mentioned anything about the ps3. Whether he said PS2 instead of PS3 by mistake i dont know but thats what was said.
He also mentioned that Atari are working on a massive xbox 360 exclusive which will be announced within the next 4 to 6 weeks