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Infogrames doesn’t just throw characters into a game without explaining their motivations. The leader of the pack, One Eyed Jack, and the black witch, Elizabeth Jarrett, also reveal their life-stories in a series of flashbacks which in the disk-based game appear as a set of 2D stills, although it is rumoured that in the cd-rom version these will be full animations. The most startling difference in gameplay is in the choice of characters.

Alone 1 gave the choice of playing as Carnby or Emily Hartwood for the womanly interest. Alone 2 gives no option, Carnby is the only ace in the deck. But the turning point comes when you are captured and start to direct little Grace, the girl kidnapped by One Eyed Jack. Grace is the only hope of survival and her mission is to find a way to free Carnby.

This offers a new dimension to the gameplay as the too-too cute Grace can’t perform the adult macho moves of Carnby and the game switches to a hilarious extended version of hide and seek between this gorgeous animated toddler and the ferocious zombies see boxout on Grace vs Emily Hartwood.

Comedy plays a big part in Alone 2, from waddling chubby chefs and drunken ballerinas to Grace’s teddy bear. But you’ll have to discover them for yourself as some of the funniest scenes are in the solutions to the puzzles. One of the aspects which would have sold this game, had it been out before Christmas, is the Santa Claus suit. At a certain point in the game Carnby finds a Big Red Suit. By putting this on, some of the zombies will not attack you.

Because they’re big kids at heart and still believe in Father Christmas. Alone 2 is also stacked with film references – you find out that Eliot Ness has been on the tail of One Eyed Jack and that the new head of police for San Francisco is one Lieutenant Callaghan, otherwise known as Crazy Harry aka Dirty Harry.

Twin Peaks. And as One Eyed Jack is also an inveterate gambler, surely this is more than just a mere coincidence. Despite all my glowing praise for Alone 1, it did have its faults. It ran slowly and experienced puzzle-solvers felt it was a few puzzles short of the full shilling. Both problems have been eradicated in Alone 2. Fine tuning the game engine has made it run up to three times faster, and a substantial increase in size means the gamemap now includes a house, its environs and a pirate’s ship.

The speed is most notable on Alone Vs most irritating flaw, taking a trip up the apples and pairs. Old Edward Carnby or Emily Hartwood would do a painfully slow glide up or down stairs, best described as a zimmer-ffame shuffle.

New Edward Carnby bounds up the stairways in proper, healthy, manly strides. Even with an increase in size at one point Infogrames thought the game was becoming so big they were going to split it into two instalments , Alone 2 has lost none of its prequel’s tension. More rooms to explore equates to more dangers to encounter. And at no point do you feel the luxury of space. Each new environment from the maze to the ship is tight and claustrophobic, with dark corners that hide a cornucopia of nasties that will blast away at you at the drop of a hat.

The improved speed has also allowed Infogrames’ programmers to place more characters on screen simultaneously, so when blindly wandering around a corner you could run into up to five assailants. This has placed a premium on saving life points and bullets as five Tommy-gun toting gangsters cannot be fought off with a rolling pin.

The extended gamemap has enabled more complex puzzles to be set as some objects may need to be gathered very early on for use a lot, lot later. Infogrames has also thought out the puzzlesolving element well, and all solutions make perfect sense.

All answers are firmly planted under your nose so that when you finally solve the puzzle you feel a complete nonce for not sussing it out earlier. Infogrames knew full well that the acclaim garnered by their first creation was largely due to the atmosphere, and the improved game engine has allowed them to bolster the graphics considerably.

Faces are more expressive, Carnby has many more moves and can even get pissed and reel around like an idiot; Grace has a completely different set of actions and villains don’t just go up in puffballs anymore when you kill them, but can drop to their knees and keel over, slip over and get stuck in sticky substances. But the biggest atmosphere enhancer is the movement of 2D graphics behind and in front of the three dimensional action.

This is rather unusual in a 3D game and the creepy movement of spiders, snakes and rats around you all adds tension to the spooky surroundings. If you’ve played Alone 1, then I’m preaching to the converted; if you haven’t, then I strongly urge you to buy both and play them in order. I’m not saying this because Infogrames is my best mate and sent me a case of brie and Beaujolais before I did this review – the truth is that Alone 2 is simply the best game in the adventure genre that you can buy.

As PC was launched after the release of Alone 1, we never reviewed it. This has to be a good thing, as if I had rated it back then it wotild surely have been a classic and had a score of about Judging by this, the improvements in Alone 2, while keeping all of the original’s atmosphere and enthralling storyline, means I have to give this one When games are already in this bracket, extra points are much harder to come by, so the problem comes when Infogrames release Alone In The Dark 3 in the pipeline for next year and will probably be set in a Wild West ghost town.

Don’t improve on it too much boys, as we’ll have to invent a totally new scoring system. Christmas Eve and washed-up private dick, Edward Camby wasn’t feeling full of I goodwill.

The telegram from Striker dropped on his doormat two days ago. Striker, a big man, not more than six feet tall and not wider than a beer truck, was convinced One Eyed Jack had kidnapped the Saunders girl. He was going up to Jack’s coastal mansion to investigate. He hadn’t been seen since. If there’s one thing that turned Carnby’s guts it was folk messing with children. Clutching his. Jack and his cronies would get more than a sackful of presents down the chimney this Christmas.

Carnby knew how to make an entrance. The sentry degenerate pulled the short straw. His Yuletide surprise came unwrapped and blew up in his face.

But Carnby spent his life mixing it with this kind of unearthly low-life. Experience showed green fellas don’t take a pounding lying down. Ringing the bell on One Eyed Jack’s door is no way to die of old age. World-weary Carnby ducked into the maze. But this was no Hampton Court. Behind every bush there was a zombie in a crombie packing a pump-action shotgun. Cocksure, the crones introduced themselves with a medium-pitched ‘Good Morning Sir’.

This was the clarion call to unload a heap full of Thompson shrapnel into their breasts. Tommy Guns make the grade but extra cartridges are sparse – don’t waste ’em. The maze had more twists than a scenic railway but lady luck rolled a seven for Carnby. He stumbled across a card deck. One Eyed Jack was a notorious gambler and this theme runs throughout the game. Carnby played the right hand and took a nosedive to the cellar.

Secret passages and underground caverns were the staple diet of Alone 1 and the sequel turned out to be loaded with both. You can bet your last shot of bourbon for every clue down here, there’ll be a blobby sourpuss on your tail. This pooch stood out like a kangaroo in a dinner jacket; others ain’t so accomodating.

The cellar was a dead end, deader than something very dead. Carnby headed back to the shrubbery. The statue looked as inviting as a four-day old chop suey that maggots call home. But it was time to drop the artillery and use the grey matter. Grappling hook plus rope plus statue. Carnby hooked up and ‘open sesame’. The statue led to the cellars. The tub of lard in r the sharp suit was Striker. He was colder than an Eskimo’s nose and plainly didn’t get far on his quest for the kid. This proves to be bad news for One Eyed Jack.

The stakes were raised and Carnby wasn’t afraid of trouble. Trouble was his business. Inside, Carnby found a shooting gallery. It was a long narrow room, not very bright, not very cheerful.

At one end two goons indulged themselves in much-needed target practice. Unfortunately, Carnby was the target. Sizing up the re-load time on their pump-action pistols, Carnby dropped his shoulder and threw some weight into his punch knocking them from here to Denver. Merry Christmas, Mr Carnby.

There’s more than one way to fool a zombie and dressing up as Chris Cringle proves the point. In Hell’s Kitchen’s kitchen Carnby Claus prepared to fry the fat guy in the chef’s get-up. He knew this was just the beginning. He had Santa’s Big Red Suit now, but these zombies weren’t proving to be good or nice. I Find It Very difficult to talk about Alone in the Dark without lapsing into an unashamed eulogy on the qualities of the game and how ground-breaking it is.

But since I’m not the only reviewer who is utterly and hopelessly enamoured of the game, and since you will have heard it all half a dozen times before, I’ll be good and deny myself the pleasure. It’s a 3D arcade adventure loosely based on the works of H.

Playing either private investigator Edward Carnby or legatee Emily Hartwood, your task is to enter the mysterious old house, Decerto, to uncover the facts behind the strange death of the reclusive Jeremy Hartwood. While exploring the house, you come across more than you bargained for. The revolutionary use of multiple ‘camera angles’ for each room, strange perspective and eerie music give this game about ten times more atmosphere than anything else I’ve played oops, here I go again.

Essentially, this is the same game as the floppy disk version, even down to the occasional minor graphics glitch. As a bonus though, Infogrames has included a mini game.

This is a really cute, and b seasonal, so it’s bound to have been a big hit over Christmas. Over the past few days of playing this horror action-adventure, it’s forced me on innumerable occasions to go back and re-examine exactly why I play games. What is the point of this magnificent hobby? Why do we keep coming back for more? The simple answer is that no other medium gives you as much fun. We play games because they’re the liest form of entertainment on the planet.

Lofty assertions aside, I can now explain why I’m emotionally and physically battered and bruised from hitting my fists on the desk, grinding my teeth, screaming at the screen and haranguing poor Will Porter about my liained experiences -AITD, for vast amounts of time, just isn’t fun.

That’s the absolute core of it. There are moments of excellence, but they’re consistently punctured by jaw-dropping ineptitude. AITD is a continuation of the HP Lovecraft-inspired series that set the standard for the whole survival horror genre Ixick in the early ’90s.

Paranormal investigator Edward Carnby returns as the lead character, although this time he begins his adventure in New York, with that old chestnut amnesia and a newly-discovered enchant for saying “fuck” a lot After escaping from a nasty antagonist called Crowley clever eh?

The first, and overwhelmingly major, problem you encounter is the game’s control system – using the PC keyboard and mouse is virtually impossible. I don’t mind using a key-plan for an RTS, but for a console-style action game? You use the standard W, S, A, D to move around in third-person using the awkward old-style Resident Evil “rotate and move” system , but that switches to standard FPS movement when you press Tab to go into a first person view.

To close your eyes and blink, use X;. As you progress, the game keeps you informed of the growing list of I commands, that change subtly in a different context, like when you’re in a vehicle for example. However, in third person, you can’t use a fire extinguisher to put out any blazes until you switch to first-person. The same goes for shooting enemies with the gun, or using the torch to fend off one of the game’s swirling darkness monsters, both require using the first-person view.

The health system is another example of a mechanic that is overly-complicated just for the sake of it. Instead of just having simple health packs that heal you, AITD has first aid sprays that you have to torturously use on every wound of your Ixxly in first-person view. If you cjet a major wound, you haemorrliage and have to find a bandage to wrap around the cut within seven minutes or you die, which is a classic example of semi-realism adding precisely no fun to a game.

The whole system is an utter mess – inconsistent, unintuitive and confusing. The developers obviously designed AITD to lie used on a console pad, so once you switch to an Xbox controller it all makes much more sense – it’s as if you’ve been trying to open a jar of pickled onions with. After giving up with the mouse and keyboard, AITD begins to dribble out entertainment, and one of the best things I can say about the game is that you genuinely don’t know what’s going to happen next.

One minute you’re dangling from a rope over a lift shaft with fizzing electric cables, the next you’re negotiating your way through a dank underground sewer system. AITD is structured like an episodic TV series, with each individual episode consisting of a number of sequences -and you can skip past aoy sequence. It’s handy if you get stuck And you will get stuck. I found myself skipping sequences at quite regular intervals, simply because in places the game is just ridiculously difficult, and also any death results in you being thrown back to the beginning of the level – don’t expect quick saves here.

Another major disappointment are the enemies: after the story setup and visceral cracks appearing in walls, you’re suddenly confronted by a bog-standard female zombie straight out of The Evil Dead.

Other creatures are taken straight from Half-Life headcrabs or other horror shooters, such as Doom, all of which shows off the developers’ desperate lack of imagination. Plus, their Al is average at best, as they lurch and make grabs for you, or simply turn away and stand still, as if all their hellish malevolence has finally tired them out. One of the major parts of AITD that the developers were keen to hype in previews is the ability to use objects in the environment as weapons.

On encountering a chair, for example, the context-sensitive Use button pops up with an option to pick it up, and using the right analogue stick, you can then swing it about to twat any nearby monsters, although it feels genuinely down to chance whether this works.

Fire is an example of something done well in the game – it looks good, spreads realistically, and if you’re holding wooden objects, you can set them ablaze and use them to destroy any of Satan’s underlings, on whom ordinary bullets have no effect. Objects can also be picked up and used to smash open doors that are locked, thrown at enemies, or combined in your inventory shown by Camby opening his jacket to create new uses.

So, if you need a molotov cocktail, you combine a tissue or bandage with a bottle, then hold it in your left hand while using a Zippo lighter in your right.

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