#Ps1 dracula resurrection movie#

Here you will meet and question a few locals in the Inn and also visit the cemetery and a small number of other eerie locations around and about. In the first section your objective is to find a way into Dracula's castle. The game is divided into two parts each on one CD, hence no problem with disk swapping. This is a most enjoyable adventure game, there is no token arcade sequence and no combat even though you leave a couple of characters behind with a good headache. Also, just to get really picky, in one scene early in the game a hot spot was missing so that I performed an action without having a clue why! I don't want to spoil things here, but you will probably know what I mean when you get to it. Well, really the only other thing is that there are no subtitles which many players will miss and, maybe, there could have been more save game slots. Oh dear, I've just made a complaint and I really didn't want to! But since I've made one I might as well get a few others out in the open so I can go back to being positive. Highlighting the cursor when it was active would have solved the problem completely. This was a little disconcerting at the start of the game, but I didn't notice it after a while. All very simple and it works fine except that the 'active' area for doing things is sometimes very small meaning that it may require multiple mouse clicks to get things done. and a right mouse click opens your inventory. I usually skip through transitions in an adventure game anyway so this didn't hurt me one bit!īesides an arrow, the cursor changes to a magnifying glass for close ups, a hand for taking items, gears for using objects, etc. The cursor changes to an arrow for movement and there are no fancy transitions, you just jump from one predetermined location to another where you can pan around in every direction. It is mouse controlled, only using one keystroke to access saving, loading, etc. Controls and cursorsĭracula (resurrection) is a first person game with some third person cut scenes showing Jonathan acting out your commands. They are superb, almost caricatures, with clearly defined features in minute detail and eyes that tell their own stories. A creaking cupboard door in the Inn will send shivers up your spine if the characters haven't already started it a-tingling! And the character graphics have to be seen to be believed. So eerie, they do an exceptional job of building up the atmosphere and are aided by an impressive, if intermittent, soundtrack and generally very good voice acting and sound effects. The wind whines, a real portent of danger and almost pushes you inside where you, as Jonathan, begin your quest.ĭarkness is a theme of this game, you never do get to see daylight, and the graphics are exceptional, playing around with shadows and shades of black and silvery-white with smudges of muted colours. Adventuring after darkĪs you gain control the misty moonlight picks out the shape of the Golden Crown Inn before you and the leafless trees cast their eerie shadows across the gleaming snow. It's a promising beginning, and it only gets better.

#Ps1 dracula resurrection movie#

The introductory movie is excellent crisp, clear and chilling, and the use of letters (following Stoker's original) as a story telling device altogether sets the scene for Dracula (resurrection). Jonathan scribbles a note to his friend, Seward, keeping him up with the news and immediately heads off on the trail of his wife where you will direct his next hair-raising adventure. In her letter Mina explains how she was overcome by an irresistible urge to return to Transylvania and had no choice but to set off right away. He arrives home one evening to find Mina missing and a letter waiting for him. The game begins seven years later when Jonathan's worst fears are confirmed. or does he? Though the puncture marks fade on Mina's neck Jonathan isn't convinced that his vile foe is gone forever. Dracula's fate is sealed as he fizzles in a burst of flame.

At that precise moment the sun rises over the horizon and lends a helping hand. He is immediately set upon by Quincey and Jonathan but doesn't succumb to their measly weapons. The sled draws near and comes to a halt as shots are fired. The landscape is thick with snow and Jonathan, Quincey and Mina are huddled behind a snowdrift waiting to ambush the sled that is transporting Dracula back home from England.

Review by Rosemary Young (January, 2000) As the opening credits roll by this newest resurrection of the Dracula legend flashes back to Borgo in 1897 and, with a little artistic licence, re-enacts the final pages of Stoker's classic tale. Publisher: France Telecom Multimedia/Canal+ Multimedia/Microids