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Tom Bramwell
It's a banner day for delays - first Spore and now, Atari's revealed, Alone in the Dark.
The next-gen survival-horror title - one of the most impressive behind-closed-doors demos at E3 this year - won't be out until the company's next fiscal year, sadly.
Which means nobody will get to play it until sometime between April 2007 and March 2008, although CEO Bruno Bonnell reckons it will "be probably the hit of our next year".
The game's currently confirmed for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, with a PC version mooted but not confirmed, and Bonnell told investors yesterday that the series would make its way to other formats, with an announcement due "shortly".
As you'll know if you read our E3 preview, Alone in the Dark puts you in the role of Edward Carnby (again) and the action's entirely focused on New York's Central Park.
Some of the set-pieces look amazing, as does the general level of attention to detail, while developer Eden Studios also plans to use an episodic approach to the narrative to try and keep people interested.
Each "episode" in the full game will be about an hour long, topped and tailed with "previously on" and "next week on" style shorts to refresh the returning player's memory and entice them to continue respectively.
For more on the game check out our game-page, with trailers, shots and previews.
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Well delays usually fortell of development problems and hard feature cutting dilemas, but in this case I am going to optimistically assume they are taking the extra time to really make the game live up to the promise. Another game I bought my 360 for but there are plenty more great titles coming out over the next 6 months to easily tide me over :)
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"Each "episode" in the full game will be about an hour long, topped and tailed with "previously on" and "next week on" style shorts to refresh the returning player's memory and entice them to continue respectively"
More games should do this - and it would be even better if they could take a savegame and show an optional short "What has gone before" using scenes and sections from the game upto that point. The number of times if played a game, saved, and returned to it months later - only to find out i havern't the foggiest whats going on.... in regards to the article, it seems that many next-gen games are slipping their dates, so i guess this is hardly surprising... |
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NegativeZero
10/08/06 @ 23:50
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The trailer for this that was shown at E3 was very good. Hard to believe it's an Atari game.
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animal_mother
13/08/06 @ 23:25
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Is any major pc title going to be release this year? I hear EA don't do delays, so BF2142 is odds on for autumn, I wouldn't bet against Stalker or Hellgate London being rescheduled. At least I can rest easy in the knowledge that my current pc will be able to handle the majority of games released in '07.
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