Cryo Interactive is set to unleash the ultimate horror survival action adventure game of the year - From Dusk Till Dawn. Distributed in the UK by Acclaim Entertainment and developed by Gamesquad (The Devil Inside), the game will be released in the UK on Friday 7th September.
Based on Robert Rodriguez's 1996 blood-curdling, ultra-violent cult exploitation vampire slayer flick starring George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino, the original From Dusk Till Dawn movie documents two notorious thieves who enlist the aid of a preacher and his family to flee across the Texas border into Mexico. The group ends up at the infamous Titty Twister; a macabre topless biker bar situated in the middle of a desolate Mexican desert, embroiled in an all-night bloodthirsty battle against a plague of ferocious vampires.
The PC CD adaptation is written by Gamesquad's Hubert Chardot (whose writing credits include Alone in the Dark 1-3, The Devil Inside and Shadow of the Comet). Chardot ingeniously takes the main protagonist, Seth Gecko (originally portrayed in the movie by Clooney), switches the location from the Titty Twister, and places Gecko inside a maximum security ghost-like floating prison-ship called The Rising Sun, which is sailing towards New Orleans.
Although innocent, Gecko is unjustly sentenced to death in place of the awful crimes committed by his psychotic rapist brother, Ritchie Gecko (the latter was bitten by a vampire in the feature film - Seth was forced to drive a stake through his heart). Now Seth is faced with only 72 hours left before execution. The key to his survival is to make it past and kill as many vampires on the ship as possible. As Gecko, your mission is to free the other prisoners and yourself by making your way from the bottom level to the top deck of the ship - ALIVE!
To protect himself, as well as the fellow prisoners, Seth has at his disposal some twenty faithful weapons to back him up including a unique holy water gun, riot gun, an assault rifle, a nailing gun and a circular saw.
PC Format magazine recently described the game as "A little bit of Half-Life and lot of Metal Gear Solid." FDTD features plenty of object finding, puzzle solving and full-blown gory, nail biting, in-your-face violent vampire destruction to whet the appetites of those gamers who've been engrossed in other noteworthy horror survival games including Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, Resident Evil and Silent Hill.
If you loved Robert Rodriquez' original movie, you'll love how Chardot as meticulously adapted the very essence and spirit of the film into a rewarding and chilling computer game experience. His distinctive cinematic writing skills have earned him the reputation as the consummate pioneer of the horror survival videogame genre. Although there have been copyists that have attempted to cash in on his lead, nobody has matched his distinctive trademark style for sheer terror combined with tongue in cheek humour.
Says PC Format - "To get around making a solid game based on a movie tie-in you need a talented storyteller. Who is that there but Hubert Chardot - the man at the helm of the first three Alone in the Dark games. Chardot's instinct for weaving tales should assuage any worries that things might descend into generic third-person action territory. The script is hones, and often funny, and takes on a decidedly adult nature, thanks to the addition of swearing - all very much in the theme of Rodriquez' film."
Chardot may be based in France, but do not underestimate the sheer power and global impact of his writing. He commands a legitimate, ironic and downright nasty desire to both shock and push the horror envelope that much further. And this is what puts him on a par with his horror contemporaries - Stephen King, George Romero, David Chronenberg, Dario Argento, John Carpenter and Wes Craven. In the true sense of all things immersive, interactive and technologically realised, in the PC CD adaptation of From Dusk Till Dawn, nobody comes out of this game alive, unless you're highly skilled at killing vampires.
From Dusk Till Dawn is not just another Internet generated marketing hype campaign of Blair Witch "sing-around-the-campfire" epic proportions. If anything, the spirit of the game promises to give the player the same immediate pure adrenaline rush they first experienced when they saw cinematic horror classics including From Dusk Till Dawn, Dawn of the Dead, The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining and Rosemary's Baby.
Based on Robert Rodriguez's 1996 blood-curdling, ultra-violent cult exploitation vampire slayer flick starring George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino, the original From Dusk Till Dawn movie documents two notorious thieves who enlist the aid of a preacher and his family to flee across the Texas border into Mexico. The group ends up at the infamous Titty Twister; a macabre topless biker bar situated in the middle of a desolate Mexican desert, embroiled in an all-night bloodthirsty battle against a plague of ferocious vampires.
The PC CD adaptation is written by Gamesquad's Hubert Chardot (whose writing credits include Alone in the Dark 1-3, The Devil Inside and Shadow of the Comet). Chardot ingeniously takes the main protagonist, Seth Gecko (originally portrayed in the movie by Clooney), switches the location from the Titty Twister, and places Gecko inside a maximum security ghost-like floating prison-ship called The Rising Sun, which is sailing towards New Orleans.
Although innocent, Gecko is unjustly sentenced to death in place of the awful crimes committed by his psychotic rapist brother, Ritchie Gecko (the latter was bitten by a vampire in the feature film - Seth was forced to drive a stake through his heart). Now Seth is faced with only 72 hours left before execution. The key to his survival is to make it past and kill as many vampires on the ship as possible. As Gecko, your mission is to free the other prisoners and yourself by making your way from the bottom level to the top deck of the ship - ALIVE!
To protect himself, as well as the fellow prisoners, Seth has at his disposal some twenty faithful weapons to back him up including a unique holy water gun, riot gun, an assault rifle, a nailing gun and a circular saw.
PC Format magazine recently described the game as "A little bit of Half-Life and lot of Metal Gear Solid." FDTD features plenty of object finding, puzzle solving and full-blown gory, nail biting, in-your-face violent vampire destruction to whet the appetites of those gamers who've been engrossed in other noteworthy horror survival games including Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, Resident Evil and Silent Hill.
If you loved Robert Rodriquez' original movie, you'll love how Chardot as meticulously adapted the very essence and spirit of the film into a rewarding and chilling computer game experience. His distinctive cinematic writing skills have earned him the reputation as the consummate pioneer of the horror survival videogame genre. Although there have been copyists that have attempted to cash in on his lead, nobody has matched his distinctive trademark style for sheer terror combined with tongue in cheek humour.
Says PC Format - "To get around making a solid game based on a movie tie-in you need a talented storyteller. Who is that there but Hubert Chardot - the man at the helm of the first three Alone in the Dark games. Chardot's instinct for weaving tales should assuage any worries that things might descend into generic third-person action territory. The script is hones, and often funny, and takes on a decidedly adult nature, thanks to the addition of swearing - all very much in the theme of Rodriquez' film."
Chardot may be based in France, but do not underestimate the sheer power and global impact of his writing. He commands a legitimate, ironic and downright nasty desire to both shock and push the horror envelope that much further. And this is what puts him on a par with his horror contemporaries - Stephen King, George Romero, David Chronenberg, Dario Argento, John Carpenter and Wes Craven. In the true sense of all things immersive, interactive and technologically realised, in the PC CD adaptation of From Dusk Till Dawn, nobody comes out of this game alive, unless you're highly skilled at killing vampires.
From Dusk Till Dawn is not just another Internet generated marketing hype campaign of Blair Witch "sing-around-the-campfire" epic proportions. If anything, the spirit of the game promises to give the player the same immediate pure adrenaline rush they first experienced when they saw cinematic horror classics including From Dusk Till Dawn, Dawn of the Dead, The Exorcist, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Shining and Rosemary's Baby.