French retailer Smartoys has just leaked the first screenshots and details for an upcoming remake of Alone in the Dark. And since THQ Nordic will hold its Digital Showcase later today, we are pretty sure that the publisher will officially reveal it today.
Here are the game’s key features:
- Explore Derceto’s mansion in this revisit of Alone in the Dark, a true love letter to the 90s horror classic
- Go back to the roots of psychological horror. Experience an atmospheric adventure worthy of the game that founded the genre
- Immerse yourself in a world punctuated by sounds that will give you goosebumps against a backdrop of doom jazz as memorable as it is hypnotic
- Feel the adrenaline as you desperately try to survive a world where reality is beginning to crumble, evil lurks in every shadow, and ammunition is scarce
- Experience this nightmare from the perspective of Emily Hartwood or Edward Carnby. Unearth the dark secrets of a Gothic mansion
- Go beyond imagination through a complex psychological story written by cult screenwriter Mikael Hedberg, author of SOMA and Amnesia.
Enjoy the screenshots and stay tuned for more!
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“Explore Derceto’s mansion in this revisit of Alone in the Dark, a true love letter to the 90s horror classic.”
Ya…. jury’s still out on this one. I just hope this isn’t just another company dropping a massive steamer on yet another classic.
Love letter my a*s. Another over the shoulder remake. I think Tormented Souls and Alisa proved that people are completely fine with traditional survival horror, why change it now? If it was a literal letter, it’d probably say: “Oh hey, people loved you back then and they’ve been asking for a remake, but we want the Resident Evil 4 audience. It’s not you, it’s us.”
Why does Carnby look so damn young? Actually, why does it look so generic? Is this a flipped asset?
Two things instantly came to mind when I saw these screens.
Cheap. Generic.
I have little to no doubt that this will be garbage. Like this franchise hasn’t taken enough of a beating already over the years.
The environments look fine, but those models got me worried. I really hope to be wrong and it will at least be decent. I’m ok with playing B or even C-tier horror games. If it’s at least that, then I’ll be at least kinda happy.
Any other games like these two?
I have TR from GOG but alisa is a surprise.
Do you have more?
P.S. Im in same mindest about horror games and prefer original RE style, RE:CV was the last good RE
Not like those games but you should try Stalker, it’s basically the russian fallout.
what is the obsessions with these sh**ty TPS
Dude, for real. So many gameplay styles to choose from, so much creativity could be had. We could even have a hybrid of cinematic camera angles and ots shooting when we aim (Cold fear did this), but nah. Always the same f*king perspective, same f*king controls, and a lot of the time, even the same f*king animations. I swear every game with this perspective always has canned animations. Bet you anything they’re gonna put stealth in the game, and it’s going to be the same lazy “hide behind a box” stealth, where you have to crouch and walk at a snail’s speed to get past a section. At this point, I think there’s a template somewhere.
The template began at some point during the xbox360/ps3 generation.
Am I weird for preferring the original design?
I don’t know, I feel like modern games rely too much on blur, bloom, fog, filters and all…
But the atmosphere isn’t just there anymore.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e45dc6ce9ab398d98858e02fbe5610c03f4a772e73e46d14eeb9e9aa2e223e54.png
They just took the safe route and are going to make a RE2make clone.
I know what you mean. It’s the same with a lot of these games like Outcast the moment they’re brought back after being stuck in limbo for many years. The devs seem to have a hard time knowing how to get this right, even if the original team is on-board.
Although they haven’t showed his face yet, I’m kinda concerned on how the protagonist will end up looking. Never played the original but I can say that he has a distinctive look in the 1992 game.
Based on these screenshots and the trailer of this reboot, he perhaps looks a little too similar to main characters from The Evil Within and Murdered: Soul Suspect. He’s wearing an outfit and hat identical to those games too. I don’t think he’s a ginger which is a step backwards in my opinion and I doubt he’ll have the moustache either.
The game could turn out to be fine or amazing but the character, environmental and gameplay designs in a lot of these modern remakes or long awaited sequels are often overlooked, which doesn’t help when trying to differentiate from the competitors in the market.
Mafia 1 isn’t a solid remake wtf.
The chars look like monkeys with wide faces, the gameplay is of mafia3, which doesn’t fit the mafia1 narrative. A taxi driver that shoots like a soldier in Vietnam..
He was a taxi driver just in the beginning, he could have trained guns just fine.
Resident evil sure opened the way for horror games, i can’t complain.
You mean Alone in the Dark opened the way for horror games. The first AitD came out in 1992 whereas Resident Evil was introduced in 1996. I think AitD was the first horror franchise to use fixed camera angles but RE broke away from that trend since the fourth game.
No, I mean the remake.
If you’re talking about the latest trend in high budget horror games following RE7’s success then fair enough. There was a scarcity of mainstream horror games prior to that. It’s just your wording made it seem like you were saying RE pioneered horror games in general.
Woudn’t call scarcity, more in the sense that there was scarcity of horror games with combat since in that time there was a massive influx of amnesia clones.
True. It’s why I said mainstream as in AAA horrors. Games like Amnesia, SOMA, Layers of Fear, etc. are AA at most and they’re not combat oriented. The only time you really ever see action in horror games are usually from the big studios.
Not to take credit from AitD, but the game that popularize the genre gets the credit for opening the way. This is the second time that AitD turns from inovator to a clone, the first one was AitD new nightmare.
Ironically, AitD innovated again with Alone in the Dark 2007 with episodic format, free roaming survival horror, physics based combat and immersive HUD, but wasn’t popular, again.
I understand that but that’s no reason to strip away its title as one of the pioneers of 3D horror. The way I see it, if there was no Alone in the Dark there would never be a Resident Evil.
But sure the franchise has certainly suffered from ever being a hit like RE has become and tried to reignite the spark numerous times with failure. I don’t count the multiplayer game as a genuine attempt to bring back the franchise though.
That hat tells me everything I need to know. I’ll pass.
Too bad there’s no character creation in this game.
Yes, otherwise, you’d be creating an underage girl with a burka and you’d be jerking off to it.
Keep your fantasies between you and the police.
Keep what between me and the police? It’s illegal to wear those nasty third-world clothes here.
Muslim women are very unattractive, that’s why they act like wild monkeys in western countries.
Yawn… is this even updated given covid masking rules? So the women are unattractive and the state forces them to show their face, what a self own. Also, you can’t talk about other people being ugly without proving you and your family are not a bunch of inbred virgin neckbeards, remember your words or do you have Biden’s dementia?
“Keep what between me and the police?”
pederasty and whatever skeleton you hide in your closet.
Mafia 1 was pure t*rd. Play the original.
;The original is a masterpiece! One of the best action games I ever played!
This is more like a reboot that a remake but definetly interesting.
I wish someone would remaster or make a proper patch for Alone 4.
I remember liking that game a lot.
I had a funny feeling recently that we might be getting a new Alone in the Dark in near future.
Even commented that here in one of the DSOG article.
Dang. Can’t believe it.
Lets wait for the full reveal.
This one needs a remaster treatment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzCoCdIMIcI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k8KYp0aaJY
sounds promising now we just need that trailer
Solid poo that one
Reminds me of that Sinking City game