Dracula: Origin
Dracula: Origin reveals the dark origins of the Dracula curse. Once the ardent defender of Christendom, Dracula loses his faith in God when he is abandoned by his one true love after she marries. Dracula then…
Dracula: Origin is an adventure developed by Frogwares, released 2 June 2008 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It currently starts at $0.99 at GOG.
What Dracula: Origin is
Dracula: Origin is an adventure game developed by Frogwares and released in 2008. It was published by Ascaron Entertainment. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
How did Dracula become a vampire? He was a passionate, deeply religious man, but was broken by his wife's suicide; the soul of the woman he worshipped was damned! Crazy with grief and rage, he damned himself by choosing the Devil. He hid the profound suffering of the loss of his love and became an immortal monster, devoted to destruction. His inconsolable sorrow and his infinite hate carry him to search eternally for revenge; thus, he discovers that there exists somewhere an antediluvian manuscript with the details of a ritual, a ritual that would show how to awaken the infernal souls. At last, Dracula thinks he has found the way to bring back to life his love from beyond… for starters
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are horror and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Dracula: Origin holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for PENTIUM 4 1.5 GHZ/ATHLON XP 1500+, 512 MB RAM and 64 MB DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE GRAPHICS CARD. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $0.99 at GOG, 90% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Dracula: Origin launched on 2 June 2008, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company and LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, GRID (2008), Battlefield: Bad Company, LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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