Alone in the Dark
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Alone in the Dark is an adventure developed by Eden Games, released 20 June 2008 on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Alone in the Dark is
Alone in the Dark is an adventure game developed by Eden Games and released in 2008. It was published by Atari Interactive. It is available on Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Twilight.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Edward Carnby wakes up in an apartment in New York with a major case of amnesia just in time to witness living fissures wreck the city and turn many of its inhabitants into vicious monsters.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, mystery and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Alone in the Dark series
Alone in the Dark is the ninth of 13 entries we hold in the Alone in the Dark series. It arrived 5 years after Ghosthunter. The next entry was Alone in the Dark in 2008. Its critic score of 45 is 21 points below the series average of 66. The highest-rated entry is Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare at 80.
How it was received
Alone in the Dark holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points below the year average. Players rate it 51, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 12 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium® D 2.6 GHz, AMD Athlon™ X2 3800+, 1 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce 7600, ATI Radeon X1650 XT. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 9GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Alone in the Dark launched on 20 June 2008, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Persona 4, GRID (2008) and Battlefield: Bad Company. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Persona 4, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Characters
All 15
Dlc
Quick answers
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