Alone in the Dark 4: The New Nightmare

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Product Features

• story based on works of H. P. Lovecraft
• high color graphics
• variety of supernatural weapons.

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00005B8GK
• Media: Game Cartridge
• Release Date: June 26, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #24,916 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

Product Description

Platform: Game Boy Color

Amazon.com Product Description

Edward Carnby, detective of the supernatural, returns to investigate the death of his best friend, Charles Fiske, whose body was found in the waters of amysterious island off the coast of Maine. Carnby's investigation quicklyleads him to his friend's search for three ancient tablets, which, whenplaced in a specific location, will unlock an incredible and dangerouspower. Armed with a flashlight and a pistol, Carnby must find the necessaryitems to survive as well as the clues that will help him escape hisultimate nightmare.

Product Description

After one of his friend's lifeless body washes up near Shadow Island, supernatural detective Edward Carnby decided to investigate. He discovers that his buddy was looking for three tablets that are rumored to be the key to a great power. Carnby decides to take over his friend's quest, but he brings some help: archaeologist Aline Cedrac. Now, the two must use their limited resources to figure out what is happening on Shadow Island. Using an arsenal of supernatural weapons, they will have to battle the minions of evil that stand in the way. Thanks to innovative technology the game runs in the high-color mode, which allowed the designers to create incredibly detailed backgrounds and character sprites. Help Carnby and Cedrac discover the truth behind Shadow Island in ALONE IN THE DARK: The New Nightmare.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Alone in the Dark New Nightmare for GBC Great game, June 17, 2004

By	GreatWriterChrisJames "ChrisJames" (biloxi) - See all my reviews

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Alone in the Dark review, June 15, 2002

By	Lindsey (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars You can get stuck in this game in less than 10 minutes., June 12, 2002

A Kid's Review

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!

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