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

I bought those games when they went out. They were outstanding. A lot of those reviews are silly and non sense. People here do not take in account how old are those games and how advanced they were back in the days. It was the 386 period. Architectures that had no GPU and CPU between 12Mhz and 40... they were basically overpriced calculators. So all the comments... it hasn't aged well... controls are awkward... it could have been better... 33 years had been passed and you weren't even here at the time. Better rinse your mouth before mentioning those masterpieces...

At first, sorry for my bad English. I played this game in 1993 on my (still working!) old 386 DX 40 desktop pc (by the way, the number 40 refers to its processor's clock: 40 mhz - yeah, you didn't read it wrong: it has ridiculous 40mhz speed... slower than your actual grandmother's obsolete cellphone!! ;-). There was a time when I still had hair under my hat. About this game review, I must say that I spent the last 20 minutes trying to find the words to describe what I felt the first time I played Alone on the Dark - but my lack of English vocabulary prevents me to make justice to this masterpiece right now. But I can say that, as a gaming man, I have tons of PC games in my shelf, from many different categories (strategy, chess, puzzle, adventure, 2D and 3D rpg, racing, fps and many more), and I can assure you that, if you ask me to name only three games that I think that everyone needs to play before death, I don't even blink to give the answer: Alone in the Dark 1, The Lost Vikings and Tomb Raider 1 (not necessarily in that order). So, do yourself a favor and grab this game. PS: No, Gog is not rewarding me to write this review. ;-)

This is truly one of the most stunning game series ever. I remember owning 1 + 2 on floppy discs back in the day. One of the, if not the first game to incorporate polygons within a 3D environment. The game's atmosphere, unique view angles and horror movie style presentation, together with the musical background (there used to be a CD version of AITD 1 with not-so-midi-style music) make this an awesome feast for the senses. If you enjoy macabre, intense horror atmosphere, then do get these. The insane price for three games is all the more reason.

(bonus if you get the title reference without googling.) AiD is a hard game to review. It created the survival horror genre, and deserves mad props for that. However, the primitive control scheme is epic, unreservedly, bad, and 20 hours practice will still leave you flailing. The graphics are mind-numbing ugly...except they kinda work for the game. Not at all perfect, honor it for swinging for the fences, and having a wonderful Lovecraft inspired story. Also a seminal PC game (yes I mean seminal in the original sense)

Without this trilogy, the Survival Horror genre would not have looked like it does today. We have Alone in the Dark 1 + 2 & 3 to thank for that.