Alone in the Dark: Illumination

Alone in the Dark: Illumination is a 2015 third-person shooter video game developed by Pure FPS and published by Atari for Microsoft Windows. The game is the sixth installment of the Alone in the Dark series.

It received negative reviews from critics and was the last title in the series to be published by Atari, as the intellectual property has since been acquired from Atari SA by THQ Nordic.[1]

Gameplay

The game is an up-to-four-player cooperative experience with four distinct player characters working together to solve a mystery in an action-horror setting. Some characters wield firearms whereas others use magical abilities.[2] Players make their way through levels with randomly generated elements such as enemy locations, locked doors, or even room layouts to make their way to a safety vault at the end of the level. Throughout it, the players will have to fight off various types of enemies by means of firepower and creating light-sources to defeat them.[3]

Characters

There are four player characters:[2]

Theodore "Ted" Carnby (The Hunter) is a direct descendant of Edward Carnby, the male protagonist of the original Alone in the Dark and three of the sequels. He is actually implied to be the original Edward Carnby living under an assumed identity, still alive in the modern era due to the events of the 2008 Alone in the Dark game. He carries 3 automatic weapons as his primary weapons, namely an AK-47, M4, and P90. He also has a flamethrower attached to each primary weapon that can be used to burn enemies, making them vulnerable to damage. His secondary weapon is a pair of revolvers, which fire more slowly than the other characters' secondary weapons.

Celeste, born Sara Hartwood (The Witch) is the great-granddaughter of Emily Hartwood, the female protagonist of the original game. She is a member of a coven of witches, who has come to Lorwich searching for 3 of her missing comrades. She fights with a pistol as well as a number of magical abilities, such as throwing a bolt of lightning, enchanting light sources so that they burn nearby enemies, and firing a wave of electricity that travels along the ground. She can also release an area-of-effect electrical burst that deals moderate damage and will activate any nearby electrical light sources.

Gabriella Saunders (The Engineer) is a young woman who has come to Lorwich searching for her missing miner father. Besides her pistol sidearm, her primary weapons are a double-barreled shotgun, a tesla coil device that can be placed on the ground to damage nearby enemies, and a throwing disc that can be triggered to explode. She can also repair electrical light sources after they shut down.

Father Henry Giger (The Priest) is a Catholic priest who has been sent by the Vatican to investigate the town of Lorwich. He dual-wields a pair of pistols, and can also use a number of holy abilities, such as firing an energy-imbued bullet that stuns an enemy and turns it into a light source, summoning a beam of light from the sky which explodes, and creating a fiery explosion around himself. His melee attacks also set enemies on fire and leave them vulnerable to damage.

title	Alone in the Dark: Illumination
developer	Pure FPS
publisher	Atari Inc.
director	Jason Brice
writer	Matthew Barcas
composer	Jeffrey Brice
series	Alone in the Dark
engine	Unreal Engine 4
platform	Microsoft Windows
released	June 11, 2015
genre	Third-person shooter
modes	Single-player, multiplayer

Alone in the Dark: Illumination

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