Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (PlayStation 3)

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Description

Edward Carnby, private eye of the paranormal, is back.

Carnby's best friend, Charles Fiske, has been found dead near Shadow Island, a mysterious island near Maine. It is your duty to take up the investigation and find out the secrets of Shadow Island. But you're not going alone... your companion will be a redhead by the name of Aline Cedrac who has her own reasons for tagging along. Aside from being a woman and inexperienced in the world of danger, she is the only one with the knowledge for translating the ancient Abkhani tabloids which may hold the secrets behind Carnby's friend's death and the disappearance of Aline's father.

Upon arriving on the island, your plane has been shot down by the things unknown, and the heroes have no other choice but to jump with a parachute, thus separating them on the island.

Now you choose the character to play with, either as Edward Carnby or Aline Cedrac, as they explore the mysterious and gloomy island with all its secrets and parallel stories that contain different locations and tasks for different characters, thus adding the level of replayability in a different experience - Carnby's story is more action oriented while Cedrac has more puzzles to solve.

Just like in the predecessors you move your characters through pre-rendered backgrounds while the camera perspective switches around. You collect various items and books which are used to solve puzzles. Many situations can only be solved with violence which means you'll have to use guns to get rid of your foes. Aiming is manual and especially when playing Cedrac ammo is scarce. Saving a game uses up a save medallion which can be found during the game.

Screenshots

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There are 49 other screenshots on file for other versions of this game.

Alternate Titles

• "鬼屋魔影4：惡夢之夜" -- Taiwan spelling
• "鬼屋魔影4" -- Chinese spelling (simplified)
• "Alone in the Dark: Koszmar Powraca" -- Polish title
• "Alone in the Dark 4: По ту сторону кошмара" -- Russian title
• "Alone in the Dark 4" -- Informal name
• "AITD:TNN" -- Common name

Part of the Following Groups

• Alone in the Dark series
• Games made into comics
• Middleware: 4X Movie

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The Press Says

Defunct Games

May 25, 2012

B-

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Trivia

4X movie compression

The 4X movie compression technology is only used in the Dreamcast version of the game.

Comic Book

This game had a cross-promotional "prequel" comic book, featuring Carnby and Aline Cedrac investigating in Tibet, published by Image Comics in September of 2002. The story was written by Jean-Marc Lofficier, while the illustrations were by Matt Haley and Aleksi Briclot.

Edward Carnby

Edward Carnby is the name of the protagonist in all of the Alone in the Dark games, yet AitD4 is set in the year 2001 whereas the original 3 titles were set in the 1920's. Carnby is also visibly younger in the forth title. The explanation on the game's official website (see links) is that every 40 years a man is awarded with the name Edward Carnby and that man will be destined to fight the forces of evil and darkness.

Engine

Developed with Terminal Reality's Nocturne Engine.

References

The name of one of the characters in Alone in the Dark: TNN is De Certo. This is a reference to the name of the ominous mansion in the original Alone in the Dark title, which was also called Decerto.

Information also contributed by n-n, Pseudo_Intellectual Sciere and Scott Monster

Related Web Sites

• Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (Official Site)
• Hints & Tips for Alone in the Dark 4 (Instead of walkthroughs, which can spoil a game for you, use these question and answer type hints to nudge you along.)
• Walkthrough by Tami Meyers (Complete solution for Alone in the Dark 4)
• Wikipedia: Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare (Information about Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare at Wikipedia)