Extraordinary game!

User Rating: 9 | Dracula: Origin PC
I've been following this game since i heard about it months ago i always wanted a Dracula based game so i went out and bought it, boy was this game a breath of fresh air!

Graphics - it goes from very good to excellent, the amount of details and quality of the graphics are almost faultless i was impressed, some textures here and there are a bit lower quality but nothing major really, this game is proof that when developers want to do their job properly they impress, i find the graphics here to be much more inspired and better than Crysis even because it's a pleasure to look at.

the game do not support Widescreen in any way and it won't support it because the backgrounds are all rendered square so developers decided to cater for the masses, it's not a big deal at all, the game keeps the 4:3 aspect on widescreen with small black bars on the left and right just like movies. :)

Sound - the music is good if somehow boring because the music is louder than the voices, lowering the music volume made it much more pleasurable and it fits what you're doing perfectly, slow and haunting when exploring - scary when needed be etc.

the voices are generally great but just as the gamespot review said there's a bit of over-acting, you know like the guy is doing it more than required, it doesn't ruin anything it just feel different.

Gameplay - typical point n click but with some of the best (and hardest) puzzles i encountered yet and i loved it, infact sometimes the puzzles are so illogical they throw you off (good luck with the one at the cemetery with the Wolf) lol the game is worth getting just for the puzzles and worthy of the price alone, but in general exploring is nice and fun, you need to look carefully because some items may be hidden quite well around, i like this too.

Conclusion :

this is an excellent game one of the best adventure games around and very similar to the Sherlock Holmes ones but with more drammatic tones and creepy atmosphere.

if there's 1 criticizm about this game that would be that you need to READ the letters, papers etc that you find because they contain clues, normally i'd consider this a bad thing but somehow in this game reading is also a good thing.....so you EXPLORE, you solve PUZZLES, and you READ in-between. hehe

i highly recommend this game, have a cup of tea, turn off the lights, wear your headphones and be "sucked" into the world of DRACULA : Origin.

Enjoy.