Alone in the Dark producer shows Wii controls and gameplay

Le grille? What the hell is that?

Also, is it a mere coincidence that Loppin and Carnby look EXACTLY the same? Anyway, the Wii graphics don't look too bad on this one. All you other Wii developers should be ashamed of yourselves!

Opening the coat is a nice touch, but its missing one thing......."Whaddayabuyin?"

Finally someone else than GoNintendo picked up my news subscription.

Yea, that video alone made my hype for this game be "hmmm, interesting but Wii version most likely suck" to "OMFG I MUST BY THIS GAME DAY ONE BRING SPECIAL EDITION TO USA!"

Plus, I am afraid my PC will be unable to run the Games for Windows edition.

those wii graphics are actually great

Alone in the Dark Wii: Now with flasher control. Show enemies your penis!

This game looks pretty rad. I noticed they have a driving sequence where you use the wiimote and nunchuk like your grabbing a steering wheel? I thought they did that in one of the earlier COD games on Wii? Heard that didn't go too well...

Too bad its not RE5 on the wii :P

Controls and graphics look quite good!

I would consider this version Vs the 360.

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I'm guessing most of you didn't understand a word that he said?

Don't feel to bad, I'm a french Canadian and his "French" accent is hard for me to understand also! :P
hehehehe!

Ho crap....ok third parties don't have any excuses anymore. Make games look like that!

I'm writing a translation, done in 5 minutes.

What the hell? This looks actually much better than I anticipated. So far nothing much on the Wii Version was shown and I assumed it'd be a really awful port that just relied on name association sales.

If they get the controls feeling right and focus on that it might be a pretty good substitute for (most probably) not getting the whole dynamic liquid with sticky tape and fire stuff. Although I guess we'll all miss the sticky tape. Who wouldn't.

The wii version looks awesome. He said that the entire game is going to be on the Wii and PS2 versions.

I don't have time to translate all of it right now, but he's basically saying that the whole deal about Alone in the Dark is its immersiveness, and the Wii REALLY allows him to do it.

He's able to pull out his left/right weapons individually and to store them in his coat through movements, and to really look into his inventory, he just opens his coat with a parting movement. And well, you swing the wiimote in the appropriate direction to get the main character swinging.



There are some concessions they had to make, such as the material bursting into flames: instead of having it be done dynamically, they had to script it. So, instead of lighting a chair with your lighter, you'd have to carry a chair and put it in a fire source (there will be a bunch of them in the game). Other sacrifice is that you can't truly rotate the object you're holding around you, you're just going to swing it in front of you.

I think that pretty much covers what he said.

My French is not that good but here it goes:

For anyone who knows the general story of AITD, the story is the same, the scenario is the same, and for the PS2 and Wii versions, what we had to do was figure out how to adapt the game for a “next gen” experience. So we're talking about dynamic fire, interactive physics, but overall just how to adapt the game to the PS2 to have almost all the same features as the Wii version, to really push the strengths of the systems.

We'll talk more about it later, but obviously the vast majority of the other difference for the Wii version is the controller, of course. How could we use the Wiimote/nunchuck perfectly for this game?

[He says something like, in this game, it's not just “press some button to open your inventory” but something much more dynamic and...]

If I want to pull out a flashlight, I just move like this and.. just like that I can put it back. On the other side I can pull out the pistol, and just as quick as I can take it out, right back in. I can pull out both at once, and even go in first person mode. You can view objects easier this way, survey everything. And now we put them back and, if I want to check out the other objects I have, I make the same movement as before but with both hands now.

And looking down I can see what objects are there, whether or not I want to take them out, and no... nothing, so I close my jacket. Voila!

But yeah, moving on, looking at the objects we have here, there's stuff to heal you, and herre's a spray can, a lighter. And you can grab both to make them interact with one another. So holding this item here, and just moving my hands together I can use the lighter to make a flamethrower just like that. Then I'll just put them away.

But, when working with larger things like chairs, trashcans, etc... you just grab it like this, and make the same motion you want to in the game. So, I have this can, if I want to do a right attack with it, just swing from the right. Same for left attack or an overhead attack. And a lot of objects let you interact with the environment, break doors, smash stuff, etc.

And, damn, wrong item, here we go, with the gun, as you know, the controls are super accurate. With the wiimote you just aim, and you can even tilt the gun as you'd like. And if you want to reload, there's none of that “hit a button to reload” or shooting offscreen, but you turn the gun like in real life and just... eject the clip. Easy as that. And there's one level of zoom, for more accuracy and more sensitivity.

[I can't hear what he's saying over the music here, but I think he says you can get headshots if you aim well]

But if you find an item, like this chair, you can just smash the monster with it. These attacks are really powerful and you can easily drop the item, umm this button here. And now you can see, using the lighter and spray can, I can light the monster on fire

Now in the car, well, look, you can even interact with the sun visor here. Let's just see if there's anything behind it... no. We can check the glove compartment also, but nothing here either. Now, we don't have a key so we're going to hotwire the car. And, just like in real life, I 'm going to make this motion. And holding the wiimote like this, I grab the wires and manipulate them carefully. Not this one, let's see if this works. I've found the right combination, and the car starts.

Now that we can drive, it's the same, just like real life, I grab the wheel with both hands. Turning left and right, the game responds just like I'm driving. [loud music, can't hear what he's saying]

Obviously there's stuff that could be done on the 360 that can't be done here. So instead we can take part of that experience, not the same level, but still, we can work with that. So no, we can't do all the next gen effects, wood splintering, etc, no. But, but! With this version we can do something else, we can remove the barriers between the game and the player's experience and bring them into it. We can make their own motions the controls. And now when you grab a chair, you can put it in a fire, and when it's on fire, swing to hit the monsters. But the “next gen” systems you can't have that feeling of smacking a monster with a burning chair, they can't do that. So with the version you can just take big swings, left right, right left, and overhead smash, that's the kind of control we're talking about.

I'm translating as I'm watching:

In general, the story is the same, the scenario is the same, although a few adaptations had to be made. Obviously a challenge for the Wii version was how to include all the very next-gen elements such as dynamic fire and movable objects with the resources of the Wii and PS2 which are obviously a lot less powerful. So all of these features are in the Wii version, however they were properly adapted to the hardware.

And of course another important thing for the Wii is the controls that we've done. The wiimote and nunchaku work perfectly for this game. (Translator note: Ya, we'll see if that's true when it comes out on retail... :/)

The main focus was on immersion, so whenever you want to interact with something you don't just push a button (He mumbled different examples really quickly... French is my second language so I didn't really catch what he said there). Edward Carnby, to open up his jacket, you go like this. *performs jacket opening motion with wiimote and nunchaku*

If I want to pull out my flashlight, I do like Carnby and I put my hand in my vest to pull it out, now I put it back. Same thing for my gun, I pull it out, and I put it back. Afterwards I can pull out both of them if I want, and go into this view (he meant first person)
we can look at different things and objects, your flashlight points where you point your remote.

Now I'll put them both back in, and like I said earlier we perform this motion to open the vest, and now I look at what's inside and see if there's anything that I'm in the mood to use. No, so I can close the vest.


(The guy basically just goes on like this until one part of the video): In the 360 version we had a level but it couldn't be done in the Wii version. So instead we had to cut it up into small segments and then you do it all but in smaller segments. That was one of the compromises that had to be done.

As for fire, which works dynamically in the 360 version, where it burns differently on different materials, we were unable to do this. So instead what we did is that if there's a fire in a hallway for instance, it will move closer to you, but it'll be scripted instead. We can't have a fire and apply it to any random object. But we still have different fire sources and you can still pick up a wooden chair and light it on fire and use it for different things.

Another thing which he ahd to take out is that on the 360 version, you can pick up an object and move it all around your body (he means the whole thing where you move the analog stick to move an object around your head). Instead, you use the wiimote to perform large hits either from left-to-right, right-to-left, or from top-to-bottom. (he demonstrated himself doing that in the video and it appeared to work nicely)

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Wow, amazing Wii graphics.

Y A W N

Finally a game that looks about as good (maybe better) as Resident Evil 4, Gamecube version, on the Wii.

Wow, I wasn't expecting this from the Wii version. I believe I will buy this.

Hi everyone,

Just a quick note to say that the french website is not jeuxfrance, but jeuxvideo.com. I somenone at Joystiq could correct that on the news, it would be great ! Thanks

What's with the hellicopter? I thought AITD games was set in the 50 or something...

The motion controls look awesome, but are cause for worry. They can really enhance the game when done to exacting specifications, but in a game that relies on them this much, the slightest touchiness can ruin the experience. He's probably had a lot of practice, so maybe he just handles the Ouimote really well...still, I'm hoping for the best.

This video has peaked my interest alot, if the graphics are up to RE4 standard I will take this version over the 360 easily.

Sadly, those screens are from the 360 version... want proof? Look at the fire and the shadows and everything in the opening scenes, then look at it again when he's actually playing. No nice shadows, no brilliant lighting, no fancy anything (although I shouldn't say no fancy anything... you really can't see it that well). The only chance those videos are from the Wii or PS2 version is if they're cutscenes, but there's button pressing in the part with the helicopter, which probably rules out cutscene.
I'm not saying the Wii version will look like crap, but it's not going to look that good, probably not even as good as RE4.