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Bringing a new style of storytelling to Xbox 360, "Alan Wake" is a psychological action thriller from Remedy, the renowned developers of the successful "Max Payne" series. In this dynamic new title exclusively for Xbox 360, players assume the role of Alan Wake, a best-selling suspense author suffering from writer's block, who escapes to a small town only to experience the mysterious disappearance of his fiancée.
Set in the deceptively idyllic town of Bright Falls, Wash., "Alan Wake" immerses players in an intense and expansive cinematic world that enables players to explore the hyper-realistic and interactive environments. "Alan Wake" is mission-based with a deeply engaging and suspenseful storyline unveiling new twists and profound character revelations at every turn.
Players will unravel the riveting plot through multilayered character interactions, unique problem-solving and intense combat against terrifying enemies. In this nightmarish world, where fantasy and reality collide, Alan Wake must use a variety of weapons to survive, including his most powerful ally against the darkness — light itself.
- Intense psychological thriller. "Alan Wake" delivers a deeply psychological and finely crafted plot that raises the bar for storytelling in video games. The riveting story of "Alan Wake" is propelled by a movie-like atmosphere, compelling situations, memorable characters and real-time pacing. Remedy has a record of creating and developing games with unique cinematic presentation and exceptionally high production values.
- Light as a combat element. As Wake journeys deeper into the mystery of Bright Falls, the shadows close in around him. When darkness descends, light becomes his only ally as he fights his way to daybreak. . This poses a severe problem for Alan Wake since his enemies seemingly gain strength from the shadows, and before long, light itself becomes his greatest ally. Players must skillfully combine their use of light with more conventional weapons to stand a chance.
- Realistic, interactive environment. Set in the town of Bright Falls, the hyper-detailed environments of the Pacific Northwest play an important role; even the change in daylight and weather will profoundly affect the characters and enemies in "Alan Wake." The game's advanced rendering engine provides amazingly realistic environments that bring this world to detailed life — from the lush forest of evergreen trees to the quaint small-town buildings and streets. The world of "Alan Wake" is alive and real.
- Episodic narrative. The mission-based structure of "Alan Wake" creates an episodic narrative similar to a deeply structured dramatic television series, such as Twin Peak and X-Files. As the episodes progress, gameplay will evolve to introduce new elements and characters, escalating the level of threat and action in the game.
- 15
- Microsoft
- Xbox 360
- English
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Bringing a new style of storytelling to Xbox 360, "Alan Wake" is a psychological action thriller from Remedy, the renowned developers of the successful "Max Payne" series. In this dynamic new title exclusively for Xbox 360, players assume the role of Alan Wake, a best-selling suspense author suffering from writer's block, who escapes to a small town only to experience the mysterious disappearance of his fiancée.
Set in the deceptively idyllic town of Bright Falls, Wash., "Alan Wake" immerses players in an intense and expansive cinematic world that enables players to explore the hyper-realistic and interactive environments. "Alan Wake" is mission-based with a deeply engaging and suspenseful storyline unveiling new twists and profound character revelations at every turn.
Players will unravel the riveting plot through multilayered character interactions, unique problem-solving and intense combat against terrifying enemies. In this nightmarish world, where fantasy and reality collide, Alan Wake must use a variety of weapons to survive, including his most powerful ally against the darkness — light itself.
- Intense psychological thriller. "Alan Wake" delivers a deeply psychological and finely crafted plot that raises the bar for storytelling in video games. The riveting story of "Alan Wake" is propelled by a movie-like atmosphere, compelling situations, memorable characters and real-time pacing. Remedy has a record of creating and developing games with unique cinematic presentation and exceptionally high production values.
- Light as a combat element. As Wake journeys deeper into the mystery of Bright Falls, the shadows close in around him. When darkness descends, light becomes his only ally as he fights his way to daybreak. . This poses a severe problem for Alan Wake since his enemies seemingly gain strength from the shadows, and before long, light itself becomes his greatest ally. Players must skillfully combine their use of light with more conventional weapons to stand a chance.
- Realistic, interactive environment. Set in the town of Bright Falls, the hyper-detailed environments of the Pacific Northwest play an important role; even the change in daylight and weather will profoundly affect the characters and enemies in "Alan Wake." The game's advanced rendering engine provides amazingly realistic environments that bring this world to detailed life — from the lush forest of evergreen trees to the quaint small-town buildings and streets. The world of "Alan Wake" is alive and real.
- Episodic narrative. The mission-based structure of "Alan Wake" creates an episodic narrative similar to a deeply structured dramatic television series, such as Twin Peak and X-Files. As the episodes progress, gameplay will evolve to introduce new elements and characters, escalating the level of threat and action in the game.
- 15
- Microsoft
- Xbox 360
- English
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A game that deserved Oscar
The only way to make a movie in a magnificent game mail is bringing him a story that was a spectacular and expectations that Alan Wake had the objective of presenting and giving really sure. Besides having a great story, Alan Wake gameplay experience presents a magnificent player, because it has a genre of Horror Survive where there is no blood and has little violence. Alan Wake is very similar to games like Resident Evil and Silent Hill, but the way it treats the Horror genre is quite different. A game that would be perfectly Set with the RPG genre has a completely different style of play, which brings a lot of Action, Adventure, Horror and Suspense genre that would be primary. Alan Wake gives the player a realistic imagination, where in fact this effect occurs with Alan. Alan Wake has a well-diversified gameplay, where Alan can also drive cars throughout the game even more to help the player escape from enemies or run over them and also makes the player more easily reach the sites. The game has a tone of suspense and interesting, where the horror genre turns out to be just a way to scare the player, because Thriller was able to enter more extensively on gender main game, making the player feel on the skin the main character in the game because the game makes almost all movements are controlled by Alan who is playing. Alan Wake graphic provides an excellent property, which was equivalent well enhanced with touches thoroughly explored in order to resemble the reality, and one example is the fictional scenarios that were well improved, and the graphic quality of the characters was in the same way. Being an engine which took approximately five years to its creation, she managed to make its main goal to become positive, as thousands of players pleased with his perfect lighting and brightness, as well as having stunning textures that make the game even better. The Instrument chart created to enhance the artistic part of Alan Wake could be considered one of the best, so some perfect qualities. Alan Wake has a great audio quality, equivalent to the narration of the voices of the characters was very well selected, and the sounds that occur throughout the game very well bring reality to the game, which sounds great quality. Throughout the game, you can find some radio equipment, and to locate them and connects them you can hear music from real bands, and most often are the rock genre, but certain times instead of music is can listen to a radio announcer presenting his program. Alan Wake has a sound quality and is very admirable and impossible to get bored.
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The story you won't forget
Too bad you can't put 4.5 stars - I decided to put 4 instead. First of all - I had been working on this game for 3 years until it was released. Even so I can't put 5 stars since there are some drawbacks: 1. Similar enemies everywhere. 2. Quite bad driving physics. Sure you won't be driving that much, but it could have been better. 3. Annoying batteries since these die very often. 4. Bad facial animation thanks to one German studio which is now broke:) Other than that the game is perfect. The story is as good as only Remedy guys can tell it. The graphics are impressive (Alan Wake and Crysis 2 are the only 2 console games with "honest" lightning engine to date). The game is very interesting. I'm sure it would have sold better if Red Dead Redemption went out noticeably later. I'm sure Remedy's next game won't have these issues. But even with these the game is really great.
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One of the very best 360 games.
Alan Wake is one of the best singleplayer story based games available on the system. It has excellent pacing and production values. As with Remedy's previous Max Payne games the player character narrates the story as you play, and the realistic visuals (there's a lot more detail and clarity than most titles) slick action, and top drawer audio effects combine to make this a game you will likely sink more than an hour into each time you play. If you've not tried this game out yet...I think you'll find the biggest bargain on the system, the content here is just higher quality than 99% of other games. Definitely not one to pass up imo.
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Just great!
Great graphics, great story... it`s a must-have on xbox!!!
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