"You can just skip straight to the end", many winged during all that hoo-ha over being able to skip episodes in Alone in the Dark. You won't skip it though. Trust CVG.
They sat down in one of Atari's plush game demo rooms, decked out with a nice big HD TV and 5.1 surround sound with a booming subwoofer (cranked up so load someone actually came in to ask them to turn it down) and had some of the most cinematic gaming experiences CVG can remember.
Alone in the Dark will impress you. It's one of those games that tries hard to step away from the conventions of videogames to provide you with an experience that's just that little bit more convincing than most.
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.
i am so hyped for this game! i hope the gameplay is good.
I've been following this game for sometime and it looks simply amazing! This kind of boundary pusher doesn't come along often. You owe it to yourselves, to the developer, and the entire gaming industry as a whole to go out and buy this game the moment is comes out.
THIS is why you brought a 360/PS3rd and not a crappy Wii.
HA HA HA HA!