Alan Wake

Over 5 years in the making, the spiritual successor of Max Payne 1 is a very cinematic game with good narrative and atmosphere. The tutorial may seem lame, but it gets better. The combat mechanics combining firearms and light work well. The graphics are excellent, if not technically, then certainly artistically. This is an xbox port done right, with minimal consolitis, after using the following tweaks: add "-rigidcamera" (no mouse accel) and "-noblur" to the executable's launch commands, and max the FOV and "direct aiming" in the settings). Be sure to play this at night in a quiet room when there is no one else in the house - anything else does not do it justice.

This is the best game I have played in a while. Every detail and points in this game is extremely polished. The story is the most hard to put down plot I have seen in a LONG time. The character development are really great: Alan Wake is my favorite character so far in gaming. The gameplay is solid, it makes this character feel real and in danger; he's a writer not a action hero. The environments are detailed every inch of the way. It's like you are in the game. Just personally I love this game to the bone. This is definitely one of the best games I have ever played in my life time. Just go out and buy it full price. The compelling of this game is so intense that I was scared. This is a master piece! Please, give me a great follow-up to this.

10/10 Greatness

The game is clearly inspired by stephen king 's novels. It have some interesting play with the shadows and the lights. Its pretty interesting in term of gameplay and iin narrative too. The game is pretty interesting. Until the end bit i need to say that the game can be pretty repetitive at some points and sometme we just want to know the end of the story. Still interesting and pretty entertaining.

Alan Wake, game released in 2010 and developed by Remedy Entertainment. In the game you play Alan Wake, a very famous writer who hasn't written any books in recent years because he's suffering from writer's block. With encouragement from his wife Alan along with her they go to the small town of Bright Falls and then Alan begins to experience supernatural experiences and seeks to unravel the mystery behind it all and rescue his beloved wife who is missing.

Alan Wake is a game with an interesting narrative, during the game, in addition to having the narration of Alan's thoughts, we also have other elements that make the game feel like a book, both for the events and for some lines and type of language used in certain scenes. The Gameplay elements in its base is from Survival Horror, I as a fan of this genre really enjoyed being able to face enemies with Survival Horror mechanics. The game's soundtrack I thought was impeccable, very good and mixes very well with the moment, being often a tense and electrifying track to keep the tension of the fight, but the game also prefers to keep only with the ambient sound, causing many of the sometimes a build up of tension, of knowing that at any moment something might appear, of knowing that nothing around you but your flashlight can protect you.

The characters as any good plot are well developed, at most there is a single character that doesn't have much basis but we can know more about him through the manuscripts we found. From Alan to characters like Waitress Rose are well presented, even though some have little screen time, the game's narrative makes us empathize with them and know that they exist, besides it's a small town and we have this feeling that everyone know each other.

The game's story is something extremely good, in addition to all the elements I've told so far that makes the game wonderful, the story is the main course, as it is an original, deep, interpretive and well-developed plot, a game rich in its universe, not delivering the information to the player from trays, but building the story little by little until reaching its conclusion. I particularly love this type of plot that makes you pay attention to understand things, and as I said above the narrative contributes a lot because it makes you get stuck in the plot and want to know what will happen next.

Alan Wake is an extraordinary game that I won't forget, the experience I had playing was unique, still this year 2021 Remake will be out so I hope more people will play this wonder. Alan Wake clasp with a 9/10 grade.

Playing this game 10 years later their are obviously a few areas in the graphics and gameplay that feel a little dated however the story and overall game are compelling enough for this game to still be enjoyable to this very day! Could possibly have been a little longer but other than that no complaints.