Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare is the fourth installment in the survival horror video game series Alone in the Dark. The player can choose which of the two protagonists to play as. Carnby’s side of the…
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare is an adventure developed by Darkworks, released 18 May 2001 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.
What Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare is
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare is an adventure game developed by Darkworks and released in 2001. It was published by Atari Europe. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set on October 31, 2001, Edward Carnby’s best friend and partner, Charles Fiske, has been found dead off the coast of Shadow Island, a mysterious island near the coast of Massachusetts. Carnby’s investigation quickly leads him to Frederick Johnson, who informs him of Fiske’s search for three ancient tablets with the ability to unlock an incredible and dangerous power. Johnson pleads with Carnby to take Fiske’s place and reopen the investigation in order to recover the tablets. Carnby accepts and makes it his mission to find Fiske’s killer. Johnson introduces Edward to Aline Cedrac, an intelligent young university professor. She joins Edward in recovering the missing tablets and assisting…
How it plays
It is played from a third 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: The New Nightmare is the fifth of 13 entries we hold in the Alone in the Dark series. It arrived 5 years after Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3. The next entry was Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare in 2001. Its critic score of 80 is 14 points above the series average of 66. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 8 points above the year average. Players rate it 74, 6 points lower than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium® II 300 MHz and 64 MB RAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare launched on 18 May 2001, within three weeks of Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Bejeweled, Flower, Sun, and Rain and Red Faction. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, Bejeweled, Flower, Sun, and Rain, Red Faction.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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