Danielle Rose23

Dracula 3 Path of the Dragon - a good game

Again Dracula. It seems like the creature created by Bram Stoker, already famous, is the inspiration for a lot of adventure games. In the last one, the third of the series that has started with Dracula Resurrection and continued with Dracula The Last Sanctuary, it seems it doesn't bring anything new. The producers remain at the same classic formula for an adventure and sends you in Transylvania in 1920. The puzzles and the visual effects are the strengths of the game that seems more to be an uninspired story with detective than the encounter with the legendary monster - see strenghts of the game.

The story is not one that you expected, although this is not necessarily a bad thing. You will not get in the role of Van Helsing or his descendants, instead you will play with father Arno Moriani, a priest sent to Transylvania by the bosses from Vatican to investigate the death of a Roman doctor, who was a candidate for canonization.

The priest finds out that the doctor has investigated several weird deaths in the city, and is found in a position to demonstrate that there are no vampires like the investigations of the doctor said. Much of the time you will do all kinds of scientific researches, you will ask teachers about what is happening in the city, and you will not be on the trail of Dracula. Actually, you will not meet any vampire by the end of the game, where you will have a big surprise - play a simple game.

Another novelty is the location, the action does not take place in the 1800s, but in the 1920s whend Romania was destroyed after the First World War. But the gameplay does not change, since we have the same objects that we use - complete game objective.

The graphics is neither good nor poor. The shadows are very successful, also the effect of fog, which creates an appropriate atmosphere for a game named after the famous vampire. Characters in exchange move in slow motion, thing which gets pretty annoying.

Many times throughout the game you will feel more like Sherlock Holmes rather than a priest from Vatican, with the sole ability to open the Bible and recite quotes that actually reminds you are wearing a crucifix and the church badge. Most of the puzzles include scientific research, but you will have some puzzles that are closer to the horror genre, namely to restore destroyed artifacts, ancient books to search, to draw pentagrams and more.

For adventurers that have the pleasure to resolve methodical puzzles, Dracula 3 The Path of the Dragon is for sure an option, even though the game doesn't surprise them.