Today I’m looking at horror/thriller game Alone in the Dark.
A thoughtful and innovative take on the genre, with a TV like episode structure and chapter select system, and the best goddam fire video-game history has ever seen.
Sadly there are some drawbacks with the controls and camera, but overall a pretty interesting release.
Enjoy the video!
Katharine
I’d like to say that I enjoyed the podcast as usual…however I didn’t. Please sack whoever is doing the video encoding, or choose another codec, or just send it out on DVD to all those whom subscribe or anything other than the recent spate of podcasts from Channel Flip. I enjoy your cheery outlook on Video games, I appreciate Wil’s “white tinted” outlook on technology. Just please someone fix the podcasts. I might be entirely wrong, but is this the reason that Channel flip disappeared for a few months this year?
Hi Schmung,
Volume issues: the volume is even when we run it on our tests systems here in the office. Is it just the first ’scream’ or the channelflip intro graphic?
Ratty: can you be a little more specific with your complaints about the video codec? What is it doing that you don’t like, and which episodes is it appearing on? Thanks!
I’ll double check on my home PC in case it’s just the works craptop, but I’ve noticed it with other videos as well. The opening channeflip graphic in most videos is generally a little loud in comparison with the talky bits, so I left the volume as was and got my ears blown out by the scream, but then had to turn it up again to hear the remainder clearly. I’ll let you know what happens on my home PC through the speakers - it might be that it’s more apparent with headphones or something.
Schmung and RattyocasteR what is the matter with you guys? the whole thing runs fine on my system, even watched it at work and had no problems. Do you just like to pick holes in everything?
Keep up the good work guys, Leicester things you rock!
I had no interest at all in getting this when it was released for the PS3 but according to IGN Eden have apparently listened to all the criticism and have made some pretty big changes to the title so I might pick this up now.
I hear that they’re patching the 360 version to include these improvements as well, so I might give it a punt once that happens.
Yeah I just read on Kotaku that their will be a 360 patch that “will implement most of the changes that have been made to the upcoming PS3 version”
http://kotaku.com/5040914/yes-alone-in-the-dark-360-is-being-patched
Please, please fix the volume issues. The start of this nearly blew my eardrums out!
On the topic of the actual game, I’ve had a freebie copy of this sat in the middle of my front room starting at me for the past couple of of weeks, but I just can’t bring myself to remove the the wrapping and play it after all the negative press it’s gotten. Worst of all I can’t even swap it at a shop as a it’s got a ruddy great promo sticker on it. Boo hiss. So, to my question : Rip it open and try and glean some enjoyment, or chuck it on ebay for a tenner.