Dracula: The Resurrection (PC)

Dracula Resurrection, a point-and-click adventure game from DreamCatcher Interactive, begins seven years after the primary events of the book. Mina has begun acting strangely, and some force is drawing her back to Transylvania. Harker follows his wife in hopes of saving her and finds that, indeed, Dracula is undead and well. But exactly how he returns from being a few handfuls of dust is never made clear. Perhaps the designers thought sunlight was an insufficient way to kill a vampire, even though it's been a staple of the vampire mythos. Whatever the reason, Dracula's titular revival is never explained or even discussed. He's just back, and the game begins from this shaky foundation.







Attempting to write a sequel to such a seminal horror novel is an understandably treacherous task, and so it's probably for the best that Dracula Resurrection has such a thin story. Other than the setup and the conclusion, there's very little in the way of narrative. As Harker, you must explore two major areas - the town surrounding Dracula's castle and the castle itself. Exploration is done from the first-person perspective typical to adventure games. You move from static point to static point, and at each node you can look around and interact with people and objects.

Dracula: The Resurrection Tech Info
Publisher: DreamCatcher Interactive
Developer: Canal+ Multimedia
Genre: Adventure
ESRB: MATURE
ESRB Descriptors: Mature Sexual Themes, Animated Violence

Minimum System Requirements
System: Pentium-166 or equivalent
RAM: 128 MB
Video Memory: 32 MB