‘Dracula: Origin’ Coming to the PC; Website Goes Live

Dracula: Origin will give players the opportunity to play as Professor Van Helsing as he tracks the dark and mysterious vampire Count Dracula. Exploring London, Egypt, Austria and -of course- Transylvania, this point-and-click adventure follows your quest in hunting down and destroying the father of all vampires before he finds a manuscript that will allow him to raise his long-dead wife from the grave. You see, Count Dracula may be the prince of darkness (sorry Ozzy) but he is a romantic at heart. 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.

As Van Helsing, not only are you trying to stop Dracula from raising his wife from the dead, but your goal is to also liberate the souls of those who have crossed his path. To do this, you must kill Dracula. Using conventional point & click gameplay, Dracula: Origin is an adventure title supported by a rich storyline, with a subtle combination of 2D environments and animated 3D characters, the game reproduces the world imagined by the author Bram Stoker with all its associated motifs (horror, love, blood, crucifixes, stakes, garlic, etc.) in an absorbing Gothic atmosphere.

Focus Home Interactive and Frogwares Studios have promised a Q2 release for the PC game, but check back often as I am sure we will get a more concrete date soon. The screens they sent us today give us more of an idea of what to expect, but you can bet the farm that Dracula will win in the end. I really wish someone would make a game where you play Dracula and hunt Van Helsing instead, because it is about time that do-gooder got his comeuppance.

The website and forums for the game are now live, so go take a gander at the page by clicking here.