Alone in the Dark - Fire

Saw this on Gamer TV ages ago. Still looks impressive though.

Looks like this game will have a lot of replayability

This is not the same video from the Gamer preview. This is a new video specifically for your viewing. Hope you enjoy it.

Looking good. How can it fail?

In that case I'll give it a proper viewing. Can't get enough pyrotechnics mayhem me.

WEEL WORLD WULES :)

Reminded me of Dr Nick - "Who knew inflammable means flammable!?" ;)

@system

Ask yourself one question. Who is releasing this?

the arsonist in me is dancing with joy

Smack bang into uncanny valley with this. Yeah, looks 1000x better than any prior attempts at doing fire but then you have a new set of counter-realisms that turn up :
- unless they're covered in lighter fluid, things don't really want to burn that much. OK, a foam couch, paper, etc, but *wood* from a cold start needs a few seconds of sustained contact with a *very* intense flame to then start burning, otherwise it just singes
- flames don't stay at a nice uniform 12 inches, large objects develop a single massive flame. That bit of wooden beam propped up against the wall would have (by the time its entire length was burning) produced a big fat flame meters in height !!!
- etc

Having said that, it *is* a great step, I'll be buying the game. Just commenting on the uncanny valley angle.

The physics look great, obviously a lot of work has been put into getting it look good, now the proof just rests in the playing. I'll be really interested to see the review scores for this.

hello tessatickle
do you want to stand around for half an hour tring to set fire to a chair

Can't wait for this. I wonder if Condemned 2 will tide me over until then.

looks cool, the people that make the game should invest in some PR people. The voiceover sounds like a genuine mong.

@ tessatickle

Just assume everything that catches light 'too' easily has just had a fresh coat of varnish.Sense of realism preserved - huzzah!

@rdexter

ooh, nice zinger. Find that one yourself or picked it up from another forum ?