In Dracula: Origin, the player takes the role of Van Helsing, the famous vampire hunter, in the chase of Dracula, before he performs a ritual to save his lover's soul. In a faithful recreation of Bram Stroker's mythology, the player learns about the origins of Dracula's curse, how he took the path of evil when his beloved one committed suicide, thus becoming damned forever, and how he finally made a pact with the Prince of Darkness to become a vampire. With time he learns of a ritual that could bring damned souls, like that of his deceased lover, from their prison. Centuries pass and the Count finds a girl, Mina, that looks exactly like her and begins to seek the girl and the manuscript where the ritual is described, while Van Helsing goes after him.

Through the usual 3D characters over a detailed 2D background, this point-and-click adventure of classical style, takes you, Van Helsing, from London to Transylvania, passing through Egypt and Austria in the search for Dracula. There are also 40 different characters to gather clues from and 150 objects to use and combine in order to solve the different puzzles and mysteries of the game. The game mixes regular inventory and environment based puzzles with more difficult riddles that require logical thinking or pose language or maths problems. The player has access to reports where tasks are detailed, various documents and a log of all dialogues in the game.

There are some helpful features for adventure players, such as a key that highlights all hotspots in the environment and double clicking to quickly move between areas.

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Alternate Titles

"Охотник на Дракулу" -- Russian title
"Drákula: Zrození" -- Czech title
"Dracula: Początek" -- Polish title

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The Press Says

Game Vortex	Jun, 2008	80 out of 100	80
Game Over Online	Jun 13, 2008	78 out of 100	78
GBase - The Gamer's Base	Jun 20, 2008	7.5 out of 10	75
Gry OnLine	Jul 01, 2008	75 out of 100	75
Chief	Jun, 2008	7.4 out of 10	74
PC Games (Germany)	Jul 30, 2008	71 out of 100	71
GameSpot (Belgium/Netherlands)	Jun 11, 2008	70 out of 100	70
PC Gamer	Sep, 2008	57 out of 100	57
PC Gamer UK	Aug, 2008	49 out of 100	49
Game Revolution	Sep 05, 2008	D+	33