![]() That said, I don’t want to sell the Taken short because I truly feel they’re a great enemy. There are only a handful throughout Alan’s journey and they’re all disappointingly easy. The gunplay here works pretty well and you’re encouraged to use the full gamut of supplies at your disposal to defeat the Taken - especially on Nightmare difficulty - but I guess I was expecting a greater number of puzzles. While there is plenty here to mess with your mind, most of it is just some good ol’ fashioned American pew-pew, bang-bang gunplay. As a psychological thriller, I was expecting something more cerebral. I wasn’t prepared for how combat-heavy Alan Wake is. What follows are six episodes of Alan searching for his wife while trying to understand why passages from a book he doesn’t remember writing keep showing up on his journey. His wife, Alice Wake, takes him to the small town of Bright Falls for a little R&R, but things quickly go awry when Alice vanishes from the cabin they’ve rented, and Alan awakens a week later not knowing what happened. ![]() And really, I couldn’t be happier going in with so little about it spoiled.įor those who are going to experience this game for the first time with the remaster, Alan Wake Remastered is a psychological thriller featuring a best-selling writer suffering from a bout of writer’s block. Beyond starring a writer named Alan Wake and being heavily influenced by the classic television series Twin Peaks - something that was very common around the time this was released - everything I experienced over the past few days of playing was new to me. I’m coming into this entire experience fresh with very little knowledge about what this game is. If you’re looking for a review that’ll compare and contrast the original version of the game with this remaster, this is not the review for you. I had already waited more than 10 years to play the game surely it would be worth it to wait a few weeks more, right? ![]() A few weeks ago, I finally carved out a little time in my calendar to sit down with the game, only for Epic Games and Remedy to announce this remaster less than a day later. I actually had it downloaded onto my console before it was pulled from Game Pass, but due to hectic scheduling, I never got around to playing it. The one exclusive I was most excited to try was Alan Wake from Remedy Entertainment. With that little console and a Game Pass subscription, I would finally be able to play all those 360 exclusives that passed me by. That fact alone is why I was so eager to get an Xbox Series S when Microsoft first announced it. Once he moved out, that was the end of my access to the hardware. One of my college roommates had one for the brief year we lived together, but that was early in the 360’s lifespan and we only ever played Call of Duty 2 and Gears of War on the thing. If there is any console I greatly regret missing out on, it’s the Xbox 360. Ha ha ha, bless your soul, you really think you’re in control? ![]()
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