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- From: etxfln@eos.ericsson.se (Fredric Lonngren)
- Subject: Re: Alone in the Dark-Is it any good?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.081439.12878@ericsson.se>
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- Reply-To: Fredric.Lonngren@eos.ericsson.se (Fredric Lonngren)
- Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
- References: <C0pAKv.159@dunaad.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:14:39 GMT
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- In article <C0pAKv.159@dunaad.co.uk>, dan@dunaad.co.uk (Dan Hunter) writes:
- |>
- |> Title just about says it all,I'm pretty new to the PC world and after
- |> finishing Indy4 and Monkey2 fancied a bit of an arcade adventure so i
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- Have not played 'em (I surley will) but most sierra titels.
-
- |> thought Alone in the Dark looked pretty good. Is it more arcade than
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- 6 out of 10 I'd say. Cool graphics & sound but some quite annoing problems.
- One gripe is that the story is driven by reading a LOT of books you find
- everywhere, rather than by traditional quest-solving. So you must find and
- read a book to get hints on how to solve quests with your objects.
- I prefere the traditional way where objects and quests are connected by
- (mostly) logical and natural relations.
-
- |> adventure? Will it work well on a 386 20?Is it good fun?and is it pretty
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- More adventure. Worked well on a 386DX/25. It's not _good_ fun, but fun.
-
- |> spooky like the magazines said?
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- Yes, quite spooky.
-
- |> Any reply would be great.
- |> Thanks in advance
- |> Dan
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