Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary

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Product Details

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• ASIN: B000059WIM
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.8 inches ; 4.8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 12, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,553 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC | Edition: Standard

An adventure that will astonish...a challenge thatwill be remembered.Product InformationImmerse yourself in a hauntingly beautiful incredibly realistic 3D world ofthrills and suspense.  Journey through eerie atmospheric environmentswhile attempting to solve the numerous puzzles and riddles that await  youin this story-driven adventure.As Jonathan Harker you know that your wife Mina trapped under the Vampire'sspell will never be safe as long as Dracula is still alive.  You must nowhunt down Dracula in an attempt to vanquish him forever.  Follow a lethaltrail in a chase from London back to Transylvania: from an insane asylum toDracula's castle and through an underground prison littered with the bones offorgotten men arriving finally at Dracula's Last Sanctuary.Only with your wits and ingenuity can Dracula be defeated.  Prepareyourself for an incredible adventure.  Product Features Freely explore more than 40 different scenes and locations. Solve challenging puzzles. Over 30 hours of gameplay. Stunning 3D graphics and animation. Windows Requirements Windows 95 98 Me XP Pentium 200MHz processor 64MB of RAM 8X CD-ROM Drive 16-bit Video Card 16-bit Sound Card CD-ROM Drive

Customer Reviews

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Creepy..., March 22, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary (CD-ROM)

Ok- so when I got this game, I thought it was going to be kind of silly and amusing...I was looking for something fun to play later on in the evening, once the day was through, chores done, etc, and I thought it might be similar to something like the 7th Guest and the 11th hour...Boy, was I wrong! This game, which features Bram Stoker's characters, is beautifully rendered. Game play is smooth- thankfully you get to use the mouse rather than the annoying arrow keys. The graphics are great, and the sounds and music are pretty cool. Rather than just plodding around solving simple logic puzzles, you are collecting clues, combining objects, fighting creatures in an intelligent way and, of course, saving the girl. This game is scary! When you least expect it, something pops out of the darkness- and trust me, there is lots of it here...Try playing late at night, and see if you don't get goosebumps also when you are in the cemetery looking for Dracula's mausoleum...See if you aren't jumpy as you explore the desolate yard of Dracula's Carfax home while the wind is howling, or while you're in the asylum hearing all the mad laughter and mumblings about you ... Gothic without getting too bizzare or obscure! Very neat! A great, entertaining buy!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good, But Could Be Better., November 10, 2001

By 

Jesse Blough (Somerset, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary (CD-ROM)

I enjoyed this game very much, mainly because of the great graphics, decent storyline, and creepy and detailed characters. Although there are a few problems... But first, I'll concentrate on the good aspects of this game.

First of all, this game succeeds in what it's supposed to be: A creepy game with Dracula as the main antagonist. Everything about this game is creepy, from the old dilapidated house filled with shadows and god knows what else, to Dracula's dungeons, filled with a sea of skeletons. The characters are especially creepy. They're downright ugly, and their imagery will remain stuck in your head. Especially the insane Hopkins, who a mother couldn't even love. This game isn't "scary", not really... Although there are a few places in the game (mostly in Carfax, the run-down house) where you will jump a little bit, but mainly those situations are few and far between. This game is mostly creepy... You will get the chills while playing this game, especially late at night.

The graphics are really good, as I've said before. The backgrounds are, at first, really nice to look at, although soon you'll find out that they look a little flat looking... But they still look nice. I do have a complaint about the enemies... They really stand out from the flat backgrounds, so they look unnatural in their surroundings.

There's no music (besides some in the cut scenes), but there's some creepy background noises... Such as creaks, groans, wind, growling, insane laughter... And in some scenes, there's nothing, so it's creepy silence. Basically, I didn't mind that the game didn't have music, because the sounds were enough.

The cut scenes are really nice and add to the storyline well. The only problem I see with them is that the lip-synching is downright horrible. It really throws off the entire thing. Too bad... But the character's voices are really good... The voice actors really put some time into making them just right.

At times you will come across some books, which you can read. If you don't feel like reading, you can just click on the words, and the character that written them will start reading them out loud for you. I liked this function.

Okay, now it's time for the bad things...

This game is really uneven. Most of the puzzles are not very hard, meaning that if you poke and prod long enough, you will come across a solution soon. But, there are a few puzzles in the game that will frustrate you. So, you'll end up doing a really easy puzzle, then go into a really hard one, then end up doing a really easy one again. Another thing about the puzzles that I didn't like was that the solutions to the puzzles lie in items that are really hard to find. Meaning that you'll spend a lot of time moving you cursor all over every scene to try to find that one missing item. This will really frustrate you, so you must have patience if you're going to play this game. The reason the items are so hard to find at times is because they're usually hidden in dark corners where you can't even see the item hardly, and/or because they're small so you'll usually pass over it without seeing your cursor change. 98% of the time I used a walkthrough is when I couldn't find the item, and usually it ended up that the item was right under my nose, which frustrated me.

Another problem I had was the ending... It is bad. The reason it is bad is because it's really easy. You would expect the end to have the hardest puzzles... But it doesn't. In fact, the ending has some of the easiest puzzles in the game. The actual ending cut scenes aren't that bad, but you'll still be saying "Is that it?" after seeing them

Pros: Good graphics, good storyline, good characters, good cut-scenes with good voices, a lot of the puzzles are fun to complete, and it's very creepy. There also aren't that many bugs in it, so don't expect it to crash. In fact, it never crashed on me yet. This game, unlike a lot of other adventure games, does have some replay value. Mainly because it has a decent storyline and settings, so it'll be like going to an old favorite book and rereading it.

Cons: Some of the puzzles are frustrating because the items are hard to find, even though they usually end up being in plain sight, and when you do find the items, the puzzles become very easy. Lip synching is horrible. The ending is bad. The backgrounds are sort of flat, although that wasn't that big of a problem for me. Every time you want to play this game, you have to insert disk 1, even when you're on disk 2, which gets kind of annoying. The game won't take you that long to complete. It took me about a week to do it. It doesn't show how you die... Like for instance, on the chessboard puzzle... If you make one wrong move, a "Game Over" screen will appear, and nothing more.

Overall: It's a very fun game, although it can be frustrating at times. I recommend this game to anybody who likes creepy games, the Dracula story, or who likes adventure games. I generally liked it, in spite of some annoyances. I will be picking up the first game in this series, Dracula Resurrection, because I liked this game. Four stars.

Note: There are some violent scenes, but not that many. Most of the violence is when you plunge a stake through the heart of a vampire, and he fades to dust... But that's it for that. There are also some naked vampire women. (...)So, I don't really recommend this game for younger players.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A terrific improvement from the first game, April 10, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Dracula 2: The Last Sanctuary (CD-ROM)

Dracula 2 is everything the first one wasn't. If you were disappointed with the first, I don't blame you. Although it had wonderful graphics, it was way too short. This game is ten times as long, ten times as challenging, ten times scarier and ten times BETTER! I love it!! There are many beautifully depicted environments to roam and explore freely in, all in a logical, strategy-driven way. The puzzles are challenging, but not impossible or too easy, they are perfect. It picks up right where the first game left off, so I suggest buying the first game as well. The graphics are, without a doubt, the BEST I've ever seen in a PC game. They are absoultely astounding...you really have to see them to believe it. Buy this game - it's cheap and tons of fun that will keep you busy for a long time!!

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