GameSpy watches New York burn in Atari's latest:
"Alone in the Dark continues its quest to modern times, with Atari bringing a recent build of the game to our offices recently. We rejoined Edward Carnaby in his misadventures through Central Park, this time in its underground sewers and a hair-raising car chase. There are clearly some issues for Carnaby's newest adventure to work through, but there's a lot of promise for this nightmare."
"With a planned ship date in May, there's still time for the designers to fill out the modern New York Edward Carnaby finds himself in. Our first look was more of a 'proof of physics' for the game's flame system and physics than a real hands-on preview."
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.
looking good so far