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What’s described as a cinematic trailer for Alone In The Dark has appeared, and will appear again below the jump.

I think I’d like games to be a bit more distinct when selling themselves via trailers, beyond emulating the visual styles of film trailers. In order for game trailers to look like film trailers, they need to be about 90% cutscene, 9% logos, and around 1% in-game footage. Which is a bit of a waste of everyone’s time, since, well, it’s not a film. (And really, the last thing you want to do is associate yourself with anyone’s memories of Boll’s Alone In The Dark film. If I were Atari I’d have the trailer be 90% explaining that it’s nothing to do with that movie).

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We have to thank GameTrailers for taking the bandwidth hit in five (count ‘em?) Alone In The Dark Videos. I’ve posted them all here for your pleasure. The question is: can it really be said to compare to series zenith, Alone In The Dark 2?

EDIT: Looks like the movies got purged for some reason. Boo.

1. Thanks!

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A new video for Alone In The D/Park has appeared, and it nicely shows off all those gimmicks that will hopefully make it something special. Setting fire to chairs is pretty much what I look for in gaming, so it’s off to a good start. Flipping crikey, Atari must be hoping this is good.

In our darkest hours, we know you’re there for us, Gametrailers.

The new Alone in the Dark game was announced a couple of years back now, and it’s remained something of a mystery since – it’s managed to carry almost the same air of quiet potential that Alan Wake has, in fact. With it creeping towards release at last though, here’s an (ugh) ‘gameplay’ trailer, which gets across some of the intended atmosphere, but still doesn’t give much away.

Bizarrely, it largely consists of a man attacking furniture with a variety of weaponry, seemingly without provocation. Perhaps the chairs are possessed by sinister otherwordly forces. “Alone in the Dark 5: Dawn of the Demon-o-Tables.” Or “Alone With the Bark”, perhaps. Whatever the true purpose of this wanton domestic destruction, it certainly demonstrates an impressive degree of environmental interaction. There’s also a fair bit of pyromania, and some glimpses of various spooky beasties towards the end of the video, but no clear sense of whether this reimagining of the classic action-adventure is primarily shooty fun, Tomb Raidersome puzzle-solving, a mess of quick-time events, or just one long anti-Ikea tirade.

Witness returning AITD hero Edward Carnaby in the midst of wood-rage after the jump.
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