Outstanding Story, TV style presentation, and heart attack inducing moments,
Character control can fight against you. Some graphical issues.
Remedy Games has been working for just about an eternity on their thriller, Alan Wake. The game has finally hit store shelves and we were able to take it for a drive through the woods. Does Alan Wake hit the best seller list or does he end up in a on...
Abstract: Alan Wake lacks structure. Actually, that’s not right. It has a structure, it’s simply poorly executed. If asked how to describe the flow of the game, you can break it down as a constant run from point A to point B, through familiar forests (or maybe i...
Abstract: Alan Wake has been so long in development, so vigilantly hyped at carefully contrived intervals over the last five years that the Xbox 360 exclusive was practically assured to suffer the same ignoble fate of many such slow-burn releases. But for the mo...
Abstract: With an author for a main character, how could story not be a big part of the game? The titular character and his wife make a trip to the mountainous foresting community of Bright Falls where a remote, lake-front cabin promises relaxation and tranquil...
Abstract: I find it really hard to say too much that's negative about Alan Wake for the simple fact that it appeals to me on so many levels.It takes a "serialized" approach, with very distinct "episodes"; the manuscript pages that litter the environm...
Inevitably, Alan Wake doesn’t live up to the monumental hype that precedes it. There’s certainly a feeling throughout the experience that what the game gives you with one hand, it quickly takes away with the other. Ultimately though, the survival-horro...
Abstract: Alan Wake is a writer, a sort of aging-hipster-meets-Stephen-King characters who goes on an ill-fated vacation to the scariest place imaginable–Cauldron Lake. He has writer’s block, which is only a problem until his life becomes a hellish nightmare whe...
Alan Wake wasn’t the game I expected it to be from all the trailers and footage I’d seen over its lengthy development cycle. Even when I’d seen the game privately demoed behind closed doors at E3 2009, I never quite realized until I played it that this...
