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It’s difficult to invoke suspense and tension in a computer game, but games like Nocturne keep trying. Nocturne borrows heavily from Capcom’s Resident Evil third-person action-adventure games, which in turn stole their creepy style from Infogrames’ Alone in the Dark series. This formula calls for claustrophobic scenery, bizarre camera cuts, unexpected encounters, and a scarcity of ammunition, and on first impression, Nocturne follows this formula precisely.

On first impression, Nocturne is also one of the best-looking games of the year. But the game reveals its true colors soon enough, and you’ll quickly begin to find its flaws one by one, one after another, until you find yourself trying to play a game that isn’t as scary as it tries to be, nor as visually attractive as it might have been.

Even so, Nocturne looks bleak and beautiful. Its weather-beaten worldwide settings of the early 20th century, from German castles to runaway trains to Chicago gangland, are realistic in appearance and cinematic in presentation. Nocturne’s stoic hero, the gravelly-voiced no-nonsense secret agent known only as the Stranger, is detailed down to his ruffled necktie and trench coat. His many enemies span virtually every breed of monster you can imagine, including werewolves, vampires, zombies, and demons, and most every one of these is a fearsome reinterpretation of its classic horror archetype.

But it’s Nocturne’s absolutely stunning special effects that are especially impressive. Instead of the usual variety of eye-popping colored lights and full-screen pyrotechnics, Nocturne’s effects emphasize the game’s darkness. Each character casts a perfectly realistic shadow, which stretches and bends and divides depending on that character’s location relative to any nearby light sources. The Stranger’s gun-mounted laser targeting devices cut through dense fog, and while his flashlight isn’t much help in dark places, what luminosity it provides looks incredibly real. You’ll catch yourself gawking at Nocturne’s graphics all the time.

However, Nocturne’s visual quality has its price. The game runs poorly or not at all on machines that don’t have over a hundred megs of RAM, and only the fastest home computers in existence will let the game run smoothly. And even if you’re part of the elite that can run the game just right, you’ll find that Nocturne might have looked much better in spite of its attention to detail, which you’ll find was focused exclusively on particular elements of Nocturne’s presentation. The realistic shadows and the Stranger’s billowing trench coat may look great, but other elements of the game’s appearance are plainly lacking; for instance, none of the characters’ faces are animated. There’s a lot of dialogue in Nocturne, but the characters just stand there like poker-faced ventriloquists the whole time. Besides, none of these characters is well animated in the first place; each moves in the same jerky computer-game-character manner you’ve seen countless times before, which betrays Nocturne’s realism as mere facade.