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- From: fischer@netmbx.netmbx.de (Axel Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Alone in the Dark-Is it any good?
- Organization: netmbx, Berlin, Germany
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 12:19:57 GMT
- Message-ID: <LLP08FP@netmbx.netmbx.de>
- References: <C0pAKv.159@dunaad.co.uk> <1993Jan12.081439.12878@ericsson.se>
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- In article <1993Jan12.081439.12878@ericsson.se> Fredric.Lonngren@eos.ericsson.se (Fredric Lonngren) writes:
- >|> thought Alone in the Dark looked pretty good. Is it more arcade than
- >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.
-
- This is not as bad as you state it. The books are very short (5 pages or so)
- and you can read all the books in the games in max. 15 minutes.
-
- >Yes, quite spooky.
- The sound effects are superb. Dim the lights, turn up the volume and you
- will get chills.
-
- -Axel
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- fischer@netmbx.de DoD #0228
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