Customer Reviews

Alone in the Dark 4: The New Nightmare

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4 star:		(5)
3 star:		(1)
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This game's graphics are awesome...well, for Gameboy Color, that is. I'm stuck. Everything is confusing! I look everywhere I can and I get stuck! It's rated 'T' for teen, because of so-called "violence". Well, there's like no violence. The only reason it should be rated 'T' is because the game is so hard(and whenever you're about to go into combat mode, it shows Edward and he says 'what the [heck] is that?'). I probably should've saved my money. Save your money too, unless you plan on playing the game for 5 minutes and then giving up!

Alone in the Dark The New Nightmare is based on successful, horror games by Infrogrames (which has been making games over 15 yrs).

Alone in The Dark featured breakthrough animation, cinematic
scenes, sound, scary storylines, and equally scary characters (ghost, zombies, killer plants to name a few). In fact, it's not wrong to say that Alone in The Dark might have inspired the Resident Evil series by Capcom. In the first Alone In The Dark games, you played a resident who was investigating the bizarre murders and supernatural activity of a eerie mansion.

In the Gameboy Color game, the plot revolves around Camby investigating a murder on an island where a fellow was murdered
by a tribe after a special statue.

All fingers point to Alan Morton who was living in a scary
mansion and who fiddling with voodoo and conducting secret expirements on the island.

Word is that Morton is dead, and has perhaps mutated in
a horrifying monster........

GRAPHICS 5

The battle scenes and scenes involving finding clues
are done through a series still, photographic images. The quality of the images is really good using a combo 2d pixels, shading , and sprites.

The backgrounds for the game are also quite including the shots of the mansion. The monsters in the game: Everything from spiders, to killer dogs, look like they drawn in a rush and could have used more detail, but overall, the monsters look allright.

However, there are certain parts of the game, where the scenery is drawn too dark and shaded so bad, that it makes it hard to tell in what area you are moving. For this fact, I gave the graphics a 5.

The intermission scenes with Camby discussing the situation and puzzles you encounter are amazingly smooth and clear. In fact, they are almost as good as the PC graphics and polygons of the original game.

The scenes in which Camby encounters the head monsters
in the game is really detailed and scary up to the point
where you do get a good scare at the very least.

SOUND AND MUSIC 6

Shotguns blast, secret levers, magical items all have their realistic sounds that suits them. In this regard, the game is good, it's not like other games I have played in which the same sound is played for all the items in the game (which is incredibly stupid from a programming and gaming point of view).
The sound and music in AD is great . In scenes that entail a battle or a scary sequence the music changes to it. In many cases, it happens so fast, that you do get a good scare or at the very latest a good laugh of it.

My biggest complaint of the music though is that there are only 2 or 3 soundtracks for the game, so it becomes repetitive in many areas, but since the music and sound is done well, it's not a big deal.

CONTROL 6

In AD you get through the Nightmare using a variety of different
weapons. Using the start and select buttons, a and b buttons you can switch between different weapons at once.
I found the control to be very easy and very good, a contrast between the Alone in The Dark pc games, where most of the control was done by mouse clocking and use of the keyboard.
This is ok, but taking the fact, that there are many controls, and weapons, the use of a gamepad, or d pad would have helped.
In that regard, Alone in The Dark The New Nightmare is a much better game.

Replay Value 5

It's a really interesting game to play the first
time as you encounter clues, secret passages and
fighting monsters. But unless you're a fan of Horror Game or Alone in the Dark, you're probably only play the game, finish it, and then never play it again. There is no random feature, or minigames included which would have made the game that much better. I personally would have added , a special section on the history of the game, to make gamers not familiar with All The Dark Games interested in the franchise.

Overall:

Alone In The Dark The New Nightmare is a great new story in the series. The graphics are respectable, though in some cases, the 2d backgrounds, and shading make some areas very ugly and dark to see. The sound and music is also good, for the most part it sets the tone in the game throughout, leaving you scared in some cases and leaving in suspense in others.

The Replay value is the biggest problem in the game. Once you finish the game, there is not much motivation to play it, unless you're a fan of the series.

However, from a game programming point of view, the game is done well and anyone wishing to program games, could learn a thing or too from this game.

Alone in the Dark has awesome graphics(pre-rendered backgrounds) but the main character Edward could look better. He is comprised of only three colors, and sticks out from the background like a sore thumb, but enough about Edward. The game has awesome color rich environments, although the game lacks in sounds and music the gameplay and graphics make up for it. One other bad thing about this game would be the battle sequences, you cannot aim worth a darn and sometimes end up wasting alot of ammo, but... This GBC game overall is a awesome game, and I would recommend it to those who like survival horror.

Not As Good As The Playstation Version! A Short Game Compaired To The Consule Versions. But Still a Must Have For The ALONE IN THE DARK Fans. Also It Has a Battery Installed To Save All your Game Info. Overall a Great Survival Horror Game! I'm glad I bought It.

this is one heck of a horror game, but even though its on GBC, it still provides a good scare, this may be so, but it dosn't match that of Gaiden.
Its almost completely indentical to its Playstation counter-part. So here you go, my review on Alone in the Dark.

Story: like the PS1 version, edward carnby is investigating his friends death, and this leads him to Shadow Island, with him is Aline Cedrac. Thats all there is to touch on here, so I'm going leave it there.

Graphics: absoloutly gorgeous, the textures are smooth and colorful. The pre-rendered enviroments look better than ever, too.

sound: The digitized owl hoots sound great, and the weapons are decent.

Gameplay: The fire fights are action-packed, but the exploration can be frustrating, nothing that flaws the experiance as a whole.

my conclusion is that this is a pretty neat game and you should definatly check this out, its preety sweet.

I am not a spring chicken but this game is fun, except I got lost about 5 minutes into it, however my 16 yr old son figured it out, (as usual). Its has good graphics for the age of the game and its fairly easy. I think its fun...

The fourth installment of the long running Alone in the Dark series makes it's GameBoy Color debut, and the results are surprising. For being an 8-bit GBC game, the graphics are awesome, even reminiscent of Konami's GBC version of Metal Gear Solid. Besides the great graphics and sound, the only glaring problem with the game is that it is incredibly easy to get lost in the game and the enemies and puzzles are taxing. Not to mention the game has virtually no replay value once you beat it, no matter how much of a survival horror fan you are. Despite that though, as far as the genre goes on the GBC, there is this game and Resident Evil Gaiden, and Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare is noticibly superior. All in all, if your still playing your GameBoy Color, this game is definitely worth checking out, and from the looks of things it's most certainly better than the upcoming movie.