Alone In The Dark Can't Be Worse Than The Awful 2008 Reboot

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Alone in the Dark is making a comeback! This isn’t the first time I’ve been excited about the classic survival horror franchise emerging from the shadows after a long absence, but hopefully it will be the first time the end product isn’t a massive letdown. This new reboot has the potential to deliver, but it will need to shake off the ghost of 2008 if it is to survive.

THQ Nordic’s new take on the property is intended as an original story that pays homage to classic genre conventions. We’re talking deliberate controls, tense combat sequences, obtuse puzzles, and a sense of claustrophobic isolation that makes us feel well and truly alone. The period setting is a lovely touch too, and should give writer Mikael Hedberg (previously of SOMA and Amnesia: The Dark Descent) more than enough material to work with.

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Remember Alone in the Dark: Illumination? It was a garbage third-person shooter, heavily panned by critics upon its 2015 release and was quite clearly a cash grab using the licence to make a few cynical pennies before Atari sold the rights off to THQ Nordic. It’s been left in the past, and for good reason, but seven years earlier a far more ambitious revival crashed and burned in a far more public fashion. Alone in the Dark from Eden Games is a bizarre experiment that has mostly been forgotten to time, largely because it’s pretty damn terrible.

This game launched when I was 12. Younger Jade wasn’t a media literate scholar obsessed with gay cartoons like she is today, but a curious gamer who loved JRPGs, cheesy horror, and anything she could get her hands on. Ahead of its release I watched Alone in the Dark from afar, mesmerised by its ambitious gameplay