Alan Wake preview

First announced at this years E3 in Los Angeles, Remedy games is bringing us yet another winner. The developers of the two Max Payne titles are this time going for a psychological action thriller set in a small town in Washington. The game will feature a fully explorable environment in which the action will take place during day and night, giving the gamer some scary moments when playing this.

Alan Wake, the game's protagonist, is a bestselling horror writer, who writes a novel about his darkest nightmares. In the game, those nightmares come true...

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Alan Wake is a writer who was inspired by his dark dreams which he had dreamt when he was with his girlfriend. His nightmares soon became on of the best selling horror novels. But when his love suddenly disappeared he had no chance of living a normal life again. He stopped dreaming and soon stopped sleeping all together.

Like the trailer shows, he moved town only to get help at the sleeping clinic and not knowing what was awaiting him. Alan soon finds another woman who reminds him of his past love and soon he starts his psycho dreams again. This time something changes though. When he starts to write novels again, his dreams start to become reality.

Alan can only question himself, are these dreams really becoming reality or is he the target of a dangerous dementia of which there is no return?


The way the game will be portrayed will be very Max Payne-ish, the dialogues and cut-scenes are approached in film noire style which will really get the dark vs. light effect going. The dramatic dreams come to life at night, which will have great effect on how scary the game can get, and tools such as flash lights and car headlamps will be of great use.

The trailer [which is linked bellow] shows some of the in game graphics and the film noire style of portrayal. It seems the game will be mixed up of components from Indigo Prophecy and the Max Payne series, giving it that real psychological action thriller feeling.

I’m definitely looking forward to this game and I hope Xbox Live will have a demo up at some point.

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