The action of the new Alone in the Dark (PS3, 360) takes place on a single night in New York’s Central Park. Why there and not some creepy mansion or abandoned hospital? Because much like a man, Central Park is a miserable little pile of secrets, as this trailer reveals. The dead bird thing crops up in Condemned, too, as the most disgusting collectible to appear in a game, ever.
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