Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3

You need to play this game. It started the survival horror genre, and it did it right because you learned to fear the inhabitants of the house. Some you could fight, if you could work out how. Some you couldn't, and your only hope was to avoid and evade. In a very real sense this is up there with Space Invaders, Wolfenstien 3D and other ground breaking games. You don't need to finish it, but you do need to play it at least once. That said, the decay set it pretty quickly. 1 is a classic, 2 and 3 where never as good. But buy it for the first one at least.

Can see the appeal, but it has really not aged well. Walking is awkward as are the other controls.

the model of resident evil with a sensational story, awesome musics (they soundin my head at this moment), this is the game that make me read HP lovecraft for those who like this universe, play "dark corner of the earth" and "sanity's requiem" excuse me for the mistakes, i'm french

Alone in the Dark is plain, just amazing. Full of references to H.P Lovercraft, and a perfect ambience will captive a lot of people, and will offer a lot of playability. The puzzles are great, and you can find enough hints on what to do spattered in books, so exploring is encouraged, good to look at the amazingly drawn (for 1992) scenarios. Alone In The Dark 2 is less spectacular, however. There the saga stopped being scary and creepy, to enfatize more on an action game. The scenarios are still beautiful, but not very spectacular. Alone In The Dark 3 is much more enjoyable, but is very different to Alone In the Dark 1. Returns to the puzzles, but abandons the scary ambience for a quite lame "zombie cowboy" one. However, fun, long gameplay and really beautiful scenarios and buildings save the title

i first played alone in the dark on 3do and it was one of the best games i have even played. on dos its just as good with its cd quality music. part 2 and 3 are not as good but still worth playing.part 2 can be found on saturn and psx but the dos version runs much much smoother at the expense of graphical detail on the polygons