In a nutshell, it’s your basic haunted house. Formerly the property of one Jeremy Hartwood, an artist who took his own life (there’s a first), Derceto Manor is chock-full of labyrinthine puzzles which the player must navigate by rummaging through drawers and searching for clues, and of course, there’s the usual secret passage or two waiting to be discovered. It even went on to inspire the similar yet more action-oriented Resident Evil series, not to mention the ever more distant Silent Hill.Ī cross between an old school point and click adventure and the more nonlinear titles of today, Alone in the Dark charts a day in the life of private investigator Edward Carnby as he goes about investigating an old piano within a mansion out in the gloomy wetlands of Louisiana, only to discover that the mystery goes way deeper than a mere antique (miles, in fact). Released in 1992 for the PC, Infogrames’ Alone in the Dark is noteworthy for being the first 3D title in the genre.
The period in the run-up to Halloween seems as good a time as any to revisit the forefather of the modern survival horror game.
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