Alone in the Dark Series

Over the past few months I have been using my free time to play through the Alone in the Dark series. I had decided to play the Xbox 360 game only to learn it was the 5th game in a series. I follow video games pretty closely, but apparently this series had completely escaped my notice until now.  Yes, it was the first survival-horror game, a classic franchise, blah, blah, blah. What can I say? I missed it. Survival-horror is really not my go to genre for games. I enjoy Resident Evil enough, and I own some fairly obscure titles, which have never made it to a play through, but really, give me an rpg or an adventure title any day. Still, I owned the 5th game so track down the rest of the series I must. After a little time on Ebay and Amazon, I am now the proud owner of all 5 of the games. I’m just about finished with the last game; I have one more chapter to complete.While I’m glad to be able to say I’ve played them all now, I have to say the series was not that amazing. It had some bright spots, but overall, there are better entries in the survival-horror genre in my opinion.Reviews of each of the games in the series will be up shortly, but for now its back to burning roots in 5!

~ by androidcookie on October 1, 2009.