Alan Wake Video Preview (IGN)

Video Preview: Use The Light

[KingKionic]

Yes...remedy makes quality.

EDIT

Max payne speaks for itself...

[FragMnTagM]

I want to play it right now.

[Why dis]

SDF

This has 7 or 8 more months of touch up work going on right now.

[Wiinsight]

Dude, have you seen The Conduit before?

http://www.gametrailers.com...

PS3 is for nubs, I talked my friend into trading his in for a wii at gamestop the other day, best decision of his life.

[swiftshot93]

Also graphics are great for an open world game, bu this is not the best looking game on 360. Also the gameplay doesnt look very special but set pieces can redeem that notion easily. Looks to have a load of potential.

Edit: lol @ why dis. The guy you are talking to is talking about the conduit, a wii exclusive game, and you bring in sony fanboys and bashes Uncharted 2. Pathetic.

[Jaces]

Looks great, really can't wait.

If I'm lucky they'll bundle this with the 360, hehe.

[PyReX-]

You are clearly stupid

[terrandragon]

Stop giving advice and you are a nub.

[blusoops]

actually his FRIEND is the one that's clearly stupid...LOL

[SaberEdge]

I absolutely love the atmosphere in Alan Wake and coming from Remedy you just know that it is going to have an excellent plot.

The graphics rival most of the other top games, but Alan Wake is a huge 36 square kilometer open world game. Look how much detail the game has: http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/...

It has been a long time coming, but it is going to be an amazing experience.

[PyReX-]

No he is clearly retarded, lmao

[Syronicus]

It is one of my most anticipated titles. I do hope they keep the gun play down to a minimum and focus heavily on the supernatural horror and survival aspects. I loved Condemned and hope that this keeps that feeling.

[Cenobia]

"PS3 is for nubs, I talked my friend into trading his in for a wii at gamestop the other day, best decision of his life."

So you think it's the best decision you've ever made him make after his ~3 days of owning it?

You sound like quite the classy friend. Peer pressure is definitely going to make him love the Wii...

[Forrest Gump]

I disagree,I would replace The Conduit with Alone In The Dark.

[Forrest Gump]

Is this the same video from the Press Conference?

[KingKionic]

This better?

http://www.gametrailers.com...

[swiftshot93]

otherwise it seems like they've locked it.

[PtRoLLFacE]

how u have so many bubbles, pass the secrect lol

[KingKionic]

EDIT

wrong comment..

But to answer your question about the bubbles. Kindness....kindness

[SaberEdge]

ForrestGump, take the fanboy goggles off. Alan Wake looks really great. I downloaded and watched the E3 demo several times and the framerate looks solid. You were probably just getting stuttering do to the streaming of the video.

Anybody that tries to compare this to Alone in the Dark is a moron.

[Serjikal_Strike]

I would of expected WAY better looking grafx...and you need to shine the enemies with your flashlight to kill them? lol

Sounds like a very EXCITING game....(sarcasm)

[Deadman64]

Don't buy it then?

[KingKionic]

Everyone`s a critic.

[SaberEdge]

If he thinks Alan Wake doesn't look good, he is blind.

Alan Wake is one of the games I am looking forward to the most.

[All Time Greatness]

I'm so stoked for this game. I love the Stephen King feel to it's going to be so fun traversing the 36 square miles of terrain!

Def one of my most anticipated.

[CaptainHowdy]

More like Thomas Harris meets Luigi's Mansion

[KingKionic]

Ether way its obviously going to have a good story.

Remedy.

[All Time Greatness]

"More like Thomas Harris meets Luigi's Mansion"

Definately didn't make sense.

The theme was inspired by Stephen King's material, even the story.

[CaptainHowdy]

Alan Wake is a psychological thriller, something Mr. King is not known for and Thomas Harris is. Not to mention both Luigi's Mansion and this vaporware feature an italian bland protagonist traversing spooky locales with the assistance of a flashlight

[All Time Greatness]

I guess your looking to be stupid.

The game is inspired by Stephen King and Twin Peaks, not Thomas Harris and LOL....Luigi's Masion.

It looks similar to The Mist/Storm of Century and other Stephen King supernatural stories of suspense where a writer is the lead character in many of his stories. It looks nothing like The Silence of the Lambs or Hannibal...Thomas Harris's work.

lulz

[KingKionic]

"Luigis mansion"

lol... a plumber searching for ghost inside a house with a flashlight then sucking them up like he`s a ghostbuster....

lol

EDIT@ below

Stephen King writes horror,science fiction ,and the round about fantasy.

"this campfire ghost story will be a giant letdown. "

Let`s see more towards the story first...im still trying figure out are you fighting ghost`s...

[CaptainHowdy]

The fact that it is inspired by a Stephen King story doesn't dead my argument that Harris writes psychological thrillers (which this is) and King writes horror. Nor does it derail the fact that, like Luigi's Mansion, this campfire ghost story will be a giant letdown.
:D

[xino]

IGN got something good in news for once in a while.
I like this preview style, rather than reading previews:/

Let's just hope the game doesn't turn out like Alone in the Dark 4/5 (the recent one):/

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

But but but the 360 is maxed out? Pshhhhhhh! Alan Wake looks freaking delicious.

[Obama]

Who are you kidding, as Alan Wake really doesn't LOOK all that special. I am talking about just graphics here, in which the game looks slightly better than Alone in the Dark.

The gameplay may be good, but I don't think anyone can deny that it just does not look as stellar as lets say..UC2?

ps: If it really looks that great, it would have won some E3 graphical award. But it didn't.

[kaveti6616]

What the hell is your problem? Why are you bashing a game just because it doesn't stand up to your visual standards. No one cares about the graphics when the game is going to be this epic and is coming from Remedy, okay? I don't understand why you can't just appreciate games altogether. Just because some moron fanboy said, "Uncharted sucks, Alan Wake owns it" doesn't mean you should say something equally stupid. Two wrongs never make a right. If you were truly unbiased, then you would appreciate that both games will be great, instead of making childish comments.

Even if you don't have a powerful PC rig or an Xbox 360, doesn't mean you have to bash this game.

[Obama]

You didn't read my comment did you? I said the gameplay may be good, but the graphic is nowhere as great as some fanatics claim to be.

[The Master Chief]

http://www.gametrailers.com...

It's got 8-9 more months for polishing and it's easily the best looking open world game so far this generation.

And its going to be a HUGE AAA game for Xbox 360 with Mass Effect 2, come early 2010.

[KingKionic]

damn ..look at his coat.

[II Necroplasm II]

Obama you saw gameplay at pitch black nightime. Wait til you see gameplay in the day.

If you watch the demo in High quality it looks great. It will be the best looking open world game ever.

[GMR_PR]

@ Obama

This game is up there with the best on graphics. It even look on par with Heavy Rain.

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/...

http://ps3.ign.com/dor/obje...

http://xbox360.ign.com/dor/...

http://ps3.ign.com/dor/obje...

[Pistolero]

It looks better than Heavy Rain to me...especially in those screenshots.

[Obama]

I really don't trust screen shots. Look at some of the official gears of war screen shots; the in game graphic is nowhere as good as shown in those shots.

The only way to tell if a game looks good or not is by watching the gameplay, simple. I didn't say Alan Wake looks bad, as I am just saying that it doesn't look impressive at all in the graphic department.

[ShabzS]

have a look at this stage demo of heavy rain .... they have some good facial textures and some really fluid animations ... which i think alan wake needs ... but the environment textures around the charecters in heavy rain are really not as good... especially in the garage sequence.. the cars look horrible... anyway have a look at that vid and compare with this one ... u'll see the differences

http://e3.gamespot.com/vide...

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

Don't bother with Obama. He's just a pissed of sony fan cuz he just realized that the 360 can hang in the graphics department. Heavy Rain at one point was seen as the pinnacle of graphics. Well now Alan Wake stomps all over it.

[KingKionic]

"I really don't trust screen shots. Look at some of the official gears of war screen shots; the in game graphic is nowhere as good as shown in those shots. "

In the first gears of war yes

Second one know. Because the graphics are different for the single player in gears of war 2 then the nultiplayer. In the single player gears of war 2 shines.

EDIT @ below

Wow...I forgot the fish...yes..unbelievable detail.
The detail underground...inside the worm...The water....Gears of war 2 is up there on the best games list.

[ShabzS]

dont forget the fish monster .... that was the best fudging monster i've seen ... most games hype the monsters up and dont deliver .... like dead space and its "10 kilo ton mass detected in food storage" .... turned out to be a giant blob with tentacles... but the fish monster looked epic!!

[Cajun Chicken]

Looks like a good game. Isn't exactly looking how some fans made it out to be with propaganda comparing it to Heavy Rain ages ago...y'know, without even seeing it.

Looks like it has a nice spiritual connection with Max Payne, Remedy, you did well.

[Pistolero]

Do you have dirt in your eyes?...Alan Wake looks better than Heavy Rain...not the other way around. Heavy Rain looks pretty good but the textures are kind of flat and the image quality often looks kind of 'muddy' for lack of a better term. Look at this screenshot http://ps3.ign.com/dor/obje... for an example of the kind of muddy low quality textures I am talking about. Alan Wake looks quite a bit better to me.

[II Necroplasm II]

Heavy Rain looks little better but see Alan Wake is a open world game not a QTE interactive cinematic game like Heavy Rain.

I think both games will be breath taking maybe , but I'm more interested in Alan Wake. The story reminds me of the Evil Dead story a bit.

[Pootangpie]

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

vs

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Enough said it looks worse then the earlier build much worse

[emitsiti]

I am no fanboy weirdo, but this game looks better than heavy rain...

see attachments. Remedy is doing a good job.

Take off your fanboy glasses, and use your brain. No bias BS please.
Alan Wake is looking better than what people are admitting... (This is no flame bait)

I just want good games no matter what platform.
F^(k fanboys!!!! like hipphopgamer.

[jaseo]

Alan Wake is better than Nathan Drake for Pete's Sake!

[ShabzS]

and in some areas it looks better than heavy rain ... but where alan wake loses is where heavey rain shines .... and that is in the animations department... they need some more fluid movements in this one ... maybe they should talk to the ubi devs working on conviction ... that sc demo had some of the best animations i've seen ...

[Mexico619]

wow graphics look amazing i can't to see how it ends up looking when it comes out. and for the people who are saying that this isn't one of the best looking games on 360 also remember this is night so you can't really see much but in the day you would be able to see how good the graphics look