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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Infogrames boss David Gardner has told Reuters “we want to stop losing money”. No shit, Dave! As for how they’re going to do that, well…they’re hoping to sell a lot of videogames. Like the new Alone In The Dark.
Atari has just announced “Sinister Sightings”, a competition to promote the new Alone in the Dark. The objective? To take the creepiest photo you can in the world’s least creepy locale – a park.
Okay, maybe parks can be creepy when murderers, hobos and other, less savoury types stalk their finely manicured shrubbery. In any case, it’s up to you to make it an unsettling place so your photo is indeed, disturbing.
A winner will be chosen each week via online voting. Each winner will receive a copy of the AITD 5 soundtrack, while the winner with the most votes at the end of the competition will get an Xbox 360.
If you think you have what it takes to put the “Oh” into “Oh my God, there’s a weird dude in the park taking photos of me” then be sure to hit the jump.
In an interview with OXM, Alone In The Dark producer Nour Polloni has explained that the game’s coming bundled with a feature that should help out anyone who suffers from stubby thumbs. If you find yourself stuck on a particular part of the game and are getting sick of replaying it, the game will let you skip straight past it: We want everybody to be able to finish our game, so one of the other new features we’ve added is the ability to skip sections using a DVD-style menu if you get stuck.
Only downside is that it’ll cost you possible achievement points, but then if you’re the type of person who’s going to skip on gameplay just to get past a tough bit you probably don’t give a flying duck about your gamerscore, either. Alone In The Dark Q&A [OXM]
Running around in the dark chopping up tables looks booooooring. We know, the real game will have bad guys, but for now, this trailer, it’s booooooooring. All except for that inventory system, actually: finally, a game where an actual objective is to reach into your pants in first-person, in real-time.
The main attractions are the screenshots, for which the Xbox 360, Wii and Playstation 2 versions of the game are catered for; some facts about the “re-imagined” Central Park that serves as the play area in AITD 5; and a couple of flavour videos to set the mood.
On a related note, there’s been more word on when Eden Games’ survivor horror title will actually be released. Jan/Feb/March 2008 seems just a tad more realistic than the one Atari Australia’s website was sporting last year.
Central Dark [Official site, via Blue's News]
We’re guessing (and it’s hard to be sure, what with the trailer being so subtle and all) that there’s something evil. Something evil under Central Park. That’s…killing birds. Lots of birds. And driving up real estate prices. Whatever “it” is, it’s very evil. And mysterious. But mostly evil.
You’d think topping the fright factor of a fifteen year-old video computer game would be a walk in the park, but few games have ever come close to matching the scariness of Infogrames’ PC classic Alone In The Dark. If you ask me, realism is what is killing the mood. In the original AitD the primitive polygonal creatures allowed your imagination to fill in the gaps in truly terrifying ways. At least an Atari and Eden Games managed to pick a suitably eerie location for the game. Central Park is bad enough without supernatural forces beyond our comprehension at work. It won’t have anywhere near the impact of the original, but hopefully it will be entertaining nonetheless.
