History VideoGame / DraculaUnleashed

* LetsPlay: One can be found [[http://lparchive.org/Dracula-Unleashed/ here]]. Another, by the WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} team, can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo4M1tlpv9rsvSh9jA0svnhq_TWpVZaOI here]].

* FullMotionVideo: The game is presented in this fashion outside of events like writing in the diary or riding around London by carriage.

* WomanInWhite: Dracula's brides all wear a form of white gowns when seen. Juliet's especially sticks out as the most notable.

* PowerFloats: Only seen with Juliet when she's turned into a vampire. When Devlin mourns her in her crypt after she's buried, Juliet appears before him and [[GhostlyGlide glides across the floor rather than walk]] when approching him. Once Alexander, Johnathan and Van Helsing ward her back, they reach her coffin just in time to see her lowering herself back into it from the air.

* {{Diary}}: Totally optional, but the player can have Alexander write about every significant happening. If he writes after visiting the newsstand, he will also include newspaper clippings.

* IdiotHero: Among many other examples, Alfred Horner threatens Alexander's life when he asks about books on vampires and he doesn't put that together with the fact that he had vials of blood in the last part.
-->'''Alexander:''' Unbelievable! Alfred Horner actually threatened my life today. I want to find out what his secret is, but I mustn't take his words lightly.

* HissBeforeFleeing: Similar to Lucy, when Van Helsing waves a cross at the now vampirized Juliet. She hisses, drops Devlin whom she was feeding and flees back to her coffin.

However, strange murders soon start happening around town and Alexender realizes it's linked to his brother's death. Now he must get to the bottom of what's going on before his friends and loved ones are put in danger.

''Dracula Unleashed'' was a FullMotionVideo game developed by Creator/ICOMSimulations and released in 1993. It acts as a sequel to the story ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', taking place several years after the book's events. You play as Alexander Morris, a brother of Quincey Morris, who comes to London to find out about Quincey's death and wed his sweetheart Annisette Bowen.

* ShoutOut: The first batch of newspaper clippings Alexander puts in his journal includes a story of a dead accountant named Oswald Mason, whose murder was solved by Franchise/SherlockHolmes, a very clear nod to the ''Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective'' series of FMV games, specifically the third installment.

* ArtifactOfDoom: [[spoiler:The amulet.]]

%%* FullMotionVideo

* {{Jerkass}}: Devlin.

%%* NintendoHard

* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Doctor Briarcliffe.]]

* UselessItem: Quite a few, although only Annisette's portrait and the Creator/LordByron book qualify from a story standpoint.

** In a few of the endings, should you go to too many areas past the appointed time or without a item. [[spoiler:One features Alexander running into Annisette dressed in a heavy gown before she reveals her fangs. Playing through the game proper to the climax reveals she's wearing the same clothes while still human, meaning if you get the ending where she's walking in them at night, Drac's already gotten to her and made her into a vampire.]]

* FaceRevealingTurn: Alexander has one dream where he sees Anisette on the streets at night. When he calls out to her, she turns to him revealing she's now pale-faced, has unkempt hair, an almost zombie-ish expression and most importantly, blood spilling out of her mouth. She then promptly turns into a wolf and attacks him, which causes him to wake up.

* GuideDangIt: Pretty much the only way to get through the game without tearing your hair out.

* HowWeGotHere: Interestingly, you cannot replicate the scene, as Quincey's grave isn't a location at any point.
* IdiotBall: A lot of instances in the game seems to grant Alexander the Idiot Ball as he doesn't seem to put two and two together between cutscenes and journal entry writing, making him seem more like an idiot.

* ItsUpToYou: Even after meeting Prof. Van Helsing and becoming Quincey's replacement in the group, Alexander does nearly all of the leg work, and he's also the only one to confront Dracula in the end.

* LoveMakesYouEvil: Devlin, whose was pretty much a prick at the start of the game. Once his love Juliet falls victim to Dracula and is staked, he pretty much goes off the deep end, kidnapping Annisette to bait Dracula to him.
* TheManyDeathsOfYou: You can get arrested, attacked by a crazy man, faint from exhaustion, or of course, get bitten by a vampire.
* MultipleEndings: Really just variations of the same ending, but depending on your actions, either all of your friends can come out alive, only a couple survive, or just Alexander and Annisette are the only survivors.
%%* NintendoHard
* NonstandardGameOver: At one point, Alexander and Van Helsing go to visit Reinfield for information, and being the madman he is, he goes to attack the latter. You need an item to beat him back before he kills the professor. If he succeeds, you have to restart from the last checkpoint, as Helsing needs to be alive for later.

* RedHerring: [[spoiler:The white piece of cloth.]] If you follow its plotline to its conclusion, all it does is [[spoiler:implicate Leopold Stransikowski's dead wife of being the Bloofer Lady,]] which isn't helpful at all.

** In a few of the endings, should you go to too many areas past the appointed time or without a item. [[spoiler:One features Alexander running into Annisette dressed in a heavy gown before she reveals her fangs. Playing through the game proper to the climax reveals she's wearing the same clothes while still human, meaning if you get the ending where she's walking in them at night, Drac's already gotten to her and made her into a vampire.]]
** In the game's story, there's no way you can save Juliet. Dracula will claim her and make her into a vampire, forcing Alexander and the others to kill her undead form.

* FaceRevealingTurn: Alexander has one dream where he sees Anisette on the streets at night. When he calls out to her, she turns to him revealing she's now pale-faced, has unkempt hair, an almost zombie-ish expression and most importantly, blood spilling out of her mouth. She then promptly turns into a wolf and attacks him, which causes him to wake up. Edit: I never thought that was Anisette, in spite of Alexander assuming it was here. When she turns around, she is dressed like the Bloofer Lady and I had assumed it was the Bloofer Lady.

* FaceRevealingTurn: Alexander has one dream where he sees Anisette on the streets at night. When he calls out to her, she turns to him revealing she's now pale-faced, has unkempt hair, an almost zombie-ish expression and most importantly, blood spilling out of her mouth. She then promptly turns into a wolf and attacks him, which causes him to wake up.