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Alone in the Dark 3 is the 1995 survival horror video game developed and published by Infogrames. It is the third installment in the Alone in the Dark series and a direct sequel to Alone in the Dark 2. It was first released for MS-DOS in late 1995, and in 1996 for Mac and Windows 95 under the name of Alone in the Dark 3: Ghosts in Town.

It was the last game of the original canon of the series that would be later known as the "90's trilogy", until it received a sequel in 2008 named Alone in the Dark.

Plot[]

Edward Carnby is called to investigate the disappearance of a film crew at a two-bit ghost town known by the name of Slaughter Gulch located in the Mojave Desert in California. Among the disappeared crew is Emily Hartwood. Edward soon discovers that a curse has gripped the town, and an evil cowboy from the Badlands named Jed Stone is the one responsible for the crew's disappearance. Lurking around town are many trigger-happy sharpshooters, deranged prospectors, and bloodthirsty lost souls whom Edward must ward off with both his strength and his wit.

Gameplay[]

The main theme of this game is the Wild West, as Carnby is pitted against a town filled with "zombie cowboy outlaws" who attack him with revolvers and lever-action rifles. More traditionally mindless, shambling zombies begin to appear about midway through the game. Towards the end of the game, the concept of radioactive mutation plays a significant role in the story, and the player ends up fighting monstrous creatures created from the radiation.

Alone in the Dark 3 has the exact same gameplay as the first two games. But still more fluent and responsive, Reload action removed, faster and more responsive shooting/fighting and more puzzles than Alone in the Dark 2.

Release[]

This was the first game in the series not to be released on floppy disks. Rather, it was released as a CD-ROM game since the initial release, with full Red Book audio soundtrack and dialogue speech (in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and Portuguese, depending on the country the game was released, and with the Mac version specifically featuring a different English dub) like the CD-ROM re-releases of the previous two games. It was also the first game in the series to be exclusively released for several computer formats and therefore it didn't receive any official console release unlike the previous two games.

Outside of Europe, the game was distributed in North America by Interplay Entertainment. In Japan, a PC-98 version of the game was developed and released in 1995 by AMT Savan Corps, a merge of the company previously known as Arrow Micro-Techs Corp which published the previous games for Japanese computers. There was no FM-Towns version developed this time. In 1996, the Windows and Mac OS versions were also released in Japan by Electronic Arts Victor as Alone in the Dark 3: Ghosts in Town.

The official guide to the game (Alone in the Dark 3: The Official Strategy Guide, Prima Publishing, 1995; re-released by the author, 2019) was written by Steve Schwartz in cooperation with Infogrames, and a comic book based on the plot of the game was released in France and published by Vents d'Ouest, the same publisher of the Prisoner of Ice book series, based on previous games by Infogrames.

A 3DO Interactive Multiplayer version of Alone in the Dark 3 was announced but never released.

Characters[]

Enemies[]

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Locations[]

Saloon[]

Underground
Ground Floor
  • Tavern
First Floor

Jail[]

Town Hall[]

General Store[]

Trivia[]

  • This was the first Alone in the Dark game and the only one of the original trilogy to not be ported to home consoles, staying only within DOS, PC-98, Windows and Mac computers.
  • Alone in the Dark 3 follows the same gimmick as Alone in the Dark 2 to have the story starting one day before a holiday, this time one day before Independence Day.

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External links[]

Alone in the Dark 3 at MSDOS Games

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