
As De Girolami told Retro Gamer, the team was well aware of these issues at the end, but Infogrames wasn’t really concerned about tweaking the game: “The focus back then was to capitalize on the success of the first game as soon as possible, not to maintain its quality level. Community Hub Alone in the Dark 1 Alone in the Dark: Classic Collection brings the seminal survival horror masterpieces of the 90s to your PC today.

This whole section is tedious and having to cope with it from the get go is probably the worst game design decision in the whole original trilogy. The controls are clumsy at best, terribly unsuited for the task at hand, and force you to corner every enemy to avoid being stun locked by the automatic firearms. Alone in the Dark Prologue is now available for download on Steam John Papadopoulos 11 Comments THQ Nordic has just released Alone in the Dark Prologue on Steam.

The first part of the game takes place in the garden maze of Hell’s Kitchen, where you need to fight your way through hordes of Thompson-wearing goons. Finding the action menu trimmed down to just Fight and Push should be the first indicator that something’s changed.

While the mechanics are exactly the same as in the first game, now the focus lies much more on combat. The original artwork that served as base for one of the flashback images.
