14 DAY TRIAL // Frogwares studio, the team that developed the famous Sherlock Holmes series for PC, is currently working on Dracula: Origin, their new adventure game. Having successfully tackled the myth of Cthulhu in the latest Sherlock Holmes installment (The Awakened), Frogwares is once again venturing into a disturbing yet fantastic universe, the world of the prince of darkness, combining romanticism, mystery and horror.
The game isn't at all hot [admark=1]news anymore, yet the following information about it, is. Here's what the developer has decided to reveal, as the official report reads. Young, charming and devout, but emotionally broken since the suicide of his wife, Count Dracula has been transformed into a monster, with an insatiable thirst for blood and vengeance, cursed to eternal damnation.
In the game, you play the role of Professor Van Helsing, the celebrated vampire hunter, on the hunt for Dracula, while Dracula himself is on a quest for a mysterious manuscript which will give him the power to raise the dead. Your goal is to prevent Dracula from finding and using this manuscript, but also to kill him, in order to liberate the souls of all those who have had the misfortune to cross his path.
As far as the gameplay is concerned, gamers will be using conventional point & click commands. With a subtle combination of 2D environments and animated 3D characters, the game faithfully reproduces the world imagined by the celebrated author Bram Stoker, with all its associated motifs (horror, love, blood, crucifixes, stakes, garlic etc.), in a disturbing, finely-realized and absorbing Gothic atmosphere.
Dracula: Origin is a superb adventure supported by top-notch graphics and a rich storyline, taking gamers all across London, Egypt, Austria and of course, Transylvania, the famous Bran Castle of the great vampire.
Also, Frogwares has rolled out three new screens of the game. Click on the object to the top left side of the article, to enlarge. As soon as anything new is revealed, you'll hear it from us first, so don't go too far.