Console monster writes: "Console Monster were kindly invited to a hands-on preview of Alone in the Dark for the Xbox 360. Myself and Thomas Hostler snapped up the chance and hit the road in what resulted in a surprisingly impressive reincarnation of the series. To detail our thoughts and conclusions of the game, we have come together and formed this special conversational preview of the game, we hope you enjoy.
Reece:
Jumping straight into the good stuff, fire is simply amazing. You can set fire to one particular area of a room, for example say the door, and the fire will spread up the wall catching fire to the ceiling and slowly moving from one ceiling tile to another. As you can imagine, the entire room can soon become engulfed in flames, burning down everything in its path (including you or your enemies). As explained by the developers themselves, fire is easily the greatest friend and enemy in 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.
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.