
While you can waste away precious ammo to kill these beasts, you also have the option of shining your light on these animals to drive them away being creatures of the dark, they are repulsed by the light of the flashlight. As you progress through the game, you'll encounter evil beings of the dark. This really helps in not only finding specific items in this very dark game, but the light is also used as a weapon. Yes, you can move (using the D-pad) and shine the light in whatever direction as you're walking. When you turn the flashlight on, you have complete control of where you shine the light by moving the Analog pad. One of the new play mechanics is the use of the flashlight and while it's similar to Silent Hill's, it's done quite a bit better. Of course, there are some noticeable dull areas that you'll see in these pre-rendered backgrounds but for the most part the artwork for the backgrounds is quite pretty. There are some great looking backgrounds and the game is super sharp, especially when playing on a monitor.

The overall visuals are pretty impressive. Thankfully, AITD:The New Nightmare goes back to the original roots of the game, a relief for fans that suffered through the Western antics of the third chapter. Oh yeah, remember the diverging storylines in Resident Evil 2? If this is beginning to sound pretty unoriginal, well, that's because it is. When flying to the island, their plane is attacked by some mysterious force where Aline and Edward must parachute down separately on the island. The story follows our two characters trip to Shadow Island - yes, they couldn't think of a more clichéd name of an island - to find three mystical tablets and find out why Charles Fiske, Edward's best friend, died off the coast of the island. The newest chapter of AITD accelerates the time line to a more modern day theme and from the onset of the game, you can play either the busty Aline Cedrac or the old-school Edward Carnby in new-school "Matrix" gear. But if you've been a follower of the Alone In The Dark series, you'll be very disappointed that it's essentially a clone of RE. The results? Well, if you're a fan of Resident Evil you'll probably like this new fresh look. Unfortunately, rather than relying on what made it so cool and different in the past, the newest chapter in Alone In The Dark: The New Nightmare takes all the current trends of the survival horror genre. Of course, there's nothing bad about this new look as I'm sure we've all enjoyed this fresh and action-packed look to the survival horror genre. In the place of head numbing puzzles that required almost too much thought, RE delivered simple "scavenger hunting" puzzles that were meant as a pause between the zombie-head blowing action sequences. In exchange for a rather eerie and mystical world of horrors where incantations and bloody rituals took place, we received a science fictional revival of the dead with gory images and bloody violence. Resident Evil took the feeling of horror but made lots of changes that gave a new generation of gamers a new look to horror genre. I'm of the opinion that as the sequels to Alone In The Dark came out, they became less and less scary. For that matter, there's always a "safe" room in Resident Evil, but that wasn't the case in Alone In The Dark.
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While Resident Evil deserves quite a bit of respect for delivering a pretty darn scary experience and introducing the mainstream gamer to the world of video game fear, it was a very different feeling in Alone In The Dark you never had to block windows and doors to prevent monsters from getting you, you never wondered whether the incantations you were uttering in AITD were good or bad, and you sure as hell didn't to use frying pans to fend off dark creatures in RE.

Lovecraft combined together to deliver a truly frightening video game experience.

The proper use of great sound effect, brain-scratching puzzles, and the horrors from the mind of H.P. While it's probably true that no game has popularized this genre than Capcom's take on terror, Resident Evil, Alone In the Dark was probably the very first video game to nail down the specifics of the survival horror genre.
