JA reports:
''Let's start this review bass-ackwards, if you will, from the end of the game. Now, if you have been locked in a coffin for the past few centuries and have never seen a Dracula movie or read any of the numerous books on vampire lore, then what follows should be considered a spoiler and you may want to skip ahead a paragraph or two.
Dracula 3: Path of the Dragon screenshot - click to enlargeThe final five minutes of Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon is a tense, suspenseful confrontation between the game's protagonists, Father Arno Moriani and the Prince of Darkness (no, not Ozzy Osbourne). In what is a welcome change from the norm, Dracula himself has been visualized by the developers in a manner unlike any I've ever seen before. After his defeat – and has any book, game or movie ever not ended with the 'death' of the vampire – there is a wonderful cinematic that jumps to the future and opens new & mysterious avenues for sequels.
But what about the previous six to eight hours of gameplay that led to this point? Where was Dracula? For that matter, where were any vampires at all? Oh, there are some revelations made along the way that some of the supporting characters may be vampiric, but their nocturnal tendencies never really figure into the game. There is not even a single cinematic of the Count, though it is later revealed that he was the shadowy character skulking in the shadows. No Dracula, no vampires - frankly, that sucks.''
In anticipation of the release of the Dracula Trilogy, part of the Iceberg Interactive Adventure Classics range, Iceberg has today released the final the box design for this strikingly beautiful adventure collection for the PC. The Dracula Trilogy will contain re-mastered versions of Dracula: Resurrection, Dracula 2: The Sanctuary and Dracula 3: Path of the Dragon (the latter of which has not previously seen a retail release in the UK.
Fast expanding videogame publisher Iceberg Interactive has eagerly announced the UK fourth quarter release dates for six of their upcoming PC games. Autumn and winter, when people stay in and hide under a blanket with their PC, is adventure season at Iceberg Interactive, as it will release a raft of much anticipated adventure games.
Iceberg will kick off in October with the sequel to the acclaimed Adventure game Return to Mysterious Island. In Return to Mysterious Island 2, events pick-up from where they left in the original title, however, the helicopter that came to rescue Mina crashes and she is once again stuck on the island. Mysterious occurrences force Mina to explore new parts of the Island, left unvisited in the first title.
