Spanish magazine Hobby Consolas: First Alan Wake Review

TMC: Spanish magazine Hobby Consolas has the first printed review of the upcoming action thriller Alan Wake. Hobby Consolas says Alan has spectacular lightning, atmosphere and sounds combined with big scares and a perfect story rhythm that will leave you glued to the controller from start to finish.

[FangBlade]

Very nice score.
Acording to this, the game is 10-16 hours long, which is also very nice.
Still hoping for a PC port.
And no, im not trolling, so stfu please.

[xTruthx]

Good score

For those who just want to know the score
93/100

BTW: Graphics look great and IMO, its the best graphics on 360 so far.

[Shaman]

Great score,Remedy you earned.Best graphics on 360 and one of the best on consoles,no matter if its sub hd it still has some nice 4xaa.Sub HD didnt stop Ratchet and Clank and MGS4 to be great looking games so this wont stop Alan Wake either.

[xTruthx]

Shaman plz dont start mentioning games on other platforms lol.

edit: love the phantom disagrees from kids

[Shaman]

Its just to stop "AW is sub hd lalalal" because both of those games i said are sub hd and look great.

[Lionhead]

Oh man, the wait has been soooo long. Can't wait.

Now to run for cover before this hits top of the page haha

[Strikepackage Bravo]

that game looks good, sub HD? even if that's true, WHO CARES, if this is what sub HD looks like than who needs HD in gaming!?!?

I have always believed the importance of 720p and 1080p in gaming has been greatly exaggerated, and this game proves that, IF it actually is sub HD. Poly count is what matters in gaming, poly count and apparently lighting LOL!

[Biggest]

You heard it from Strikepackage Bravo first! Gaming can stop moving forward right here. Take all that technology stuff and kiss it goodbye!

[-Alpha]

Great score. I don't care for the graphics either, but they look great.

but what's with the title of the article? This stuff only leads to subjective titles in the future like "OMG, GT5 10/10, BEST GAME EVAR!"

or "ALAN WAKE 9/10 BEST GAME EVAR!"

Is "First Alan Wake Review: 93/100" too unappealing or standard? Sorry, not trying to start anything..

[no_more_trolling]

looking forward to playing this

how do the haters do it? trolling n4g to make their sorry lives have something of worth

xbox 360 is a great contender in the console race

[lelo2play]

I was expecting a AAA title, so not surprised with this score. This is Remedy... they made Max Payne.

GOTY confirmed.

[Echo307]

Eeee, I don't know about GOTY confirmed, but this certainly looks good. May is a BIG month for games, but I would say this is easily in the top 2 for the month.

[La Chance]

Great score. 15 hours seems perfect for this kind of game. Means the pacing is just right.

So I'll be getting this in May and then Crackdown 2 in June then I'll have my jaw dropping to the floor for a month after E3. And I just got Conviction today. I might get Perfect Dark on XBLA this week too.

Damn MS aint giving us no time to breath!

[Bnet343]

Holy sh*t those graphics look ridiculous. I'm very impressed. Good job for whoever got those up. I don't think after looking at those anyone can say this game looks bad.

[van-essa]

Perfect Dark XBLA (and many other downloadable mini games) is 1080P and that game looks like crap. Resolution doesn't mean that much. I've seen Alan Wake and it looks gorgeous despite being "sub-HD".

[Cold 2000]

Spoilers should be rolling in any time soon so better watch out.

@below: I just saw your post go from 0 to 3 disagrees in 10 seconds. Looks like the same idiot tracking me just for disagrees is tracking you too cuz the same just happened to my post.
I very often get 3 disagrees automatically in less than a minute even in calm threads by some dumb fangirl tracking me. Too bad theres no way to know who's tracking who. Would love to see who's that mor0n.

[Hallmark Moment]

Didn't think consoles games could be this visually stunning until now. If any 360 fans end up commenting in this article please PM me and tell what you think.

[TheBand1t]

Which pisses me off, as there's one thing even the most foul fanboy shouldn't do, and that's spoil a game.

[Cold 2000]

I hate PS3 fanboys but spoiling a game wouldnt even cross my mind. Some people come up with the craziest ideas.

Oh well, luckily its the journey that counts, not just the destination, at least for me.

[Lionhead]

Spoiling a game is the worst thing

That Brink2010GOTY guy is such a douche, he spoiled Final Fantasy 13, God of War 3, and Heavy Rain.

[Traveler]

I speak Spanish and it was a nice review. Alan Wake sounds like a really outstanding game. I am really looking forward to it with anticipation. It also looks fantastic. The graphics in those GIFs are some of the best I have seen in a while.

[Hallmark Moment]

My must have single player game this year so far. I upgraded my HDTV for this game[auto motion plus & higher contrast ratio] and I purchased a Monster cable Power Station because I needed one more plug for Natal in my setup. This is going to be one hell of a year. Broke times.

[nveenio]

Something about no-name, out-of-America magazines getting first crack at reviews screams "questionable" to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Alan Wake will have 90+ metacritic, but this just seems.....strange.

[ape007]

looks absolutely stunning, all the doubters, go and just watch

[-Alpha]

Thanks for the fix N4PS3G :)

I don't the issue was ever that the graphics looked bad. People just tried to act as if they were the BEST graphics on consoles which is what started the Alan Wake hullabaloo.

And Cold, it was 360 trolls that started spoiling crap with Heavy Rain. Unfortunately it's either the same troll or angry PS3 fans who are just continuing the circle. Next PS3 game will get a huge spoiler too, followed by Halo ODST, and it will never end.

It's pure nonsense but whoever started it is achieving his goal.

[Boody-Bandit]

Why don't you add dah Bose cubes to that awesome package? ;)
Private joke amongst those that actually know about electronics and wasted (over priced brand names) money.

On topic:
Is this another in a long line of games that has a rating/rankings release date? Embargo, is it? I hate those. Why not just let the media rate the games when they feel they are ready? Why did this embargo crap ever start?

[Natsu X FairyTail]

93/100

>:D

DAY 1

[cemelc]

Sry wrong reply

[Hallmark Moment]

Audio Motion Plus with Samsung Lcds.

Auto Motion Plus for 2009 and 2010 Samsung Lcd models should be set at >custom< Judder Reduction for every day viewing in HD cable programming should be set at -Blur reduction at 10 and Judder reduction at 2 or 3. For gaming Blur and Judder reduction should be set at 10. Judder is the setting that creates the soap opera effect for Movie watching on TV programming and Blu-Ray :)

[Natsu X FairyTail]

wow 5 disagrees for saying im getting Alan wake on day 1. Lol ps3 fangirls are so mad that alan wake scored a 93/100 right now.

[xTruthx]

omg Natsu, do you really have to turn everything into a fan boy fight. Maybe they disagreed because they are not getting it day 1 ? People have a mind of their own yah know, not every 1 will agree to what people say. 93/100 is a great score but do you see anyone talking bad about the review in this zone? no. So its your assumption that some ps3 fans are mad with no fundamental proof. Now ps3

[sid4gamerfreak]

alan wake looks like a buy for me. FInally my 360 is getting some love now...

[vhero]

I don't think this will sell on graphics but on story if anything however looking at the genre it will probably pass the 1 million mark but it won't be in the same leagues as the halos as its no FPS. You can disagree all you like but in reality you know its true.. Alone in the dark is a perfect example of what I am talking about as its a very similar game.. Anyways back to review.. After spending so long working on it they don't deserve good scores on that alone (Too human anybody?) but have done well to get them so well done on the devs however 1 review is a bit premature. However this isn't IGN/EDGE/Kotaku so there review holds a lot more weight.

[Rock Bottom]

Did they mention how scary it is in the review?

[MNicholas]

Apart from a really strange rendering problem in the bottom most image (you can see the lighting within the distant fog through Alan's head and upper torso) the lighting looks great.

[Xeoset]

Amazing review; I'm so pumped for this game.

Still, for fvck sake, the game is neither HD nor sub-HD, it's a mixture of the two depending on what Remedy are using the CPU/GPU for at that moment. The engines resolution taxes the Xbox 360 six times that of a normal output resolution, because it is using multiple instances. While it's not a technical overview, it is bloody well true, hence why this game looks so damn good; Remedy know what the hell they're doing.

[TROLL EATER]

Looks magnificent

[FOXDIE]

im also hoping for a pc port, this game should not be missed.

[MNicholas]

As we have seen from high quality screenshots, the textures and general level of detail leave something to be desired.

In most areas it's not even at the quality of Uncharted 1.

[Omega4]

No doubt this game will be AAA, glad its quite a long game was expecting it to be around 8 hours

[Raf1k1]

Yeah I think length surprised a lot of people. Remedy deserve to do well with this after having put so much time and effort into it.

[bioshock1221]

Yeah I agree I expected this game to be like around 8-10 hours long like most single player games are now a days. But good to see it will be long. Remedy deserves it. This just shows they are a great developer all of their games have been critically acclaimed and this looks to be no different. Who cares if they take long they are a small developer as long as their final product is great then that is all it matters. I'm more excited to buy this game now.

[cemelc]

Ummm i just read the article and it clearly stated that the game is 10 hours, where the hell did the 16 hours come from???

Even in the review said in the last coments that the game felt short.

[Cevapi88]

i hope this sets a new standard for game length...8 hours might have worked last gen but to keep seeing it time and again with great games on both the PS3 and 360 leaves me feeling as though the devs are really underachieving...with such long development times you would think that games would be 10+ hours...at least AW gives you the ability to go and explore...this in turn will give the game some legs in term of length and im glad to see it

[cemelc]

dude the game last 10 hours, wtf are you talking about, what new standard is that????

And before the disagree get someone to translate the last page so you can stop spreading false information.

[Cevapi88]

wow way to misunderstand the comment....yeah the game last 10 hours....but it allows you to explore the setting of the game to discover new things...this is what i meant by it giving the game more legs in terms of length....again i am surprised you couldnt pick up on that

ummm and i do think its a standard when Splinter Cell is 5 hours long and GoW III is only 8 hours...probably shorter depending on the players skill...look at MW 2 SP was only 5 hours long as well...way too short....2 of the 3 will rely heavily on MP...it seems like SP is turning into an add on rather than being the pivotal focus of what a game is

[cemelc]

I get you're point man... but from the review i don't think this game is all about exploration(But who knows perhaps i'm wrong).

I'm actually truly hopeful about the plot, i hope no harm from me was done to you, not my intention... ill give you a bubble.

[Cevapi88]

its cool and thanks :)

[Fishy Fingers]

Hopefully someone with to much time on their hands translates the review. Crazy as it is I'm one of those that reads them.

Great stuff though, you cant doubt Remedy.

[Julie]

I was going to translate but the scans are too blurry :(

EDIT: wait! 1st page is blurry the other ones i can read :) brb

Ok this is what i could read , some pages are cut in half dunno why and don't make fun of my english lol D:

-There are save rooms with some "generator" thing where you can save the game , refill health and stay safe from enemies

-There is no danger on the day so we can use that time to find clues, explore and to talk to the npcs.

-The game also have some puzzles mostly used to proceed to the next area.

-On the dark there will be some QTE

-There are crows who will drain the energy from Alan Wake. On the forest there are "nouns" (dunno the spelling are like woodcutters :p) , and they are really hard to beat.

-There are vehicles , they help to travel faster and can be used to beat enemies.

-Alan has flashbacks to tell his story before he reaches Bright Falls , they also gives clues for the story.

Meh too bad the pages are missing a half and the 1st page is all blurry sorry :(

[Julie]

BRB again lol now i can see the whole pages :)

-Some NPC seem to be hiding something and some are really creepy. We need to explore the whole town and forest to find all the book pieces , and collectible objects.

-Story is spread in episodes and each one will give a twist to the main theme like "Lost" wich leave us glued to the game.

- At the begining of each episode we will see a brief of the previous chapters , the game has a movie feeling from the sound, dialogues, the characters, the story to the terrifying atmosphere.

-There scenaries are full of detail and are really big , even on indoors ,and stores there is a lot of detail , the forests have trees and plants that moves with the wind, the lights are also stunning from the sun on the day to the flashlight on the night or dark places.
We can for example illuminate the inside of a house from the outside.

-The character models are pretty detailed but they need a bit more of detail on the expressions.

-Is an exellent survival horror game , it mixes the best of Silent Hill with a really fun combat and detailed characters.

-The best:
The story: awesome ambient and script.
The Combat: great use of light and lots of variety.

-The Worst
Lenght:is pretty short we would like the game to last longer.The game is about 10 hours.
Facial Expression: the facial expression is not at the same level as the game intensity.

-Graphics (92):Ambience, light and weather effects are awesome
-Sound (94): very good soundtrack but the sound effects are really excellent.
-Lenght (82): with no doubt this is the Achilles Heel of the game (10 hours) with low replayability.
-Fun (93): the story pace , the combat and the dialog will keep you glued from start to finish.

-Score: 93

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Thanks for the translation Julie +bub.

Really looking forward to playing this.

[Julie]

Ty :) i know that my translation must have lots of grammar horrors lol but i tried :p i hope everyone at leat gets an idea of what i translated over there

[ryano23277]

My only concern for the game IMO was the combat/shooting mechanics.

For the reviewer to put that in the Pros section, obviously has more to it than what I have picked up from the videos we were shown of the first half hour.

May's a good month, too bad all the great games come out just a couple weeks apart.

[green]

Nice to play another AAA game this year. Cant wait

[Fishy Fingers]

I dont really like the term AAA personally, just seems like some irrelevant term. But this year is packed with great games across the board, even my Wii will see some love with Red Steel 2.

Good times.

[Omega Zues]

Whoa, first time heard of this one. But good score for AW none the less.

[RadientFlux]

Doesn't surprise me, Remedy has always been a great developer.

[peeps]

shame the review couldn't have been translated. A score says they thought the game was excellent but a score alone doesn't make a review (although it does seem that way on N4G at times).

but anyway, the gifs do look amazing. looking frwd to this, especially being released the day of my last exam

[redneck_smith]

MUST BE N4PS3G , THE BEST 360 FANGIRL IN N4G

[TheXgamerLive]

they don't have the game yet to review, not til about 10 more days for reviewers and they said nothing which shows this site just wanted some hits. yes, the game will be an A+++ title but this site was a joke.

[ELite_Ghost]

BUT BUT BUT IT'S SINGLE PLAYER!!!

[knightdarkbox]

ps3 fanboys people SHOULD be looking forward to alan wake. Remedy always makes great games. but here are the facts:
PC owners will just say its dumbed down for consoles and will not admit a console game will be good.
ps3 fanboys owners wont give a 360 exclusive respect because of hate.

anyway look for this ps3 fanboys:

http://fc02.deviantart.net/...

[Iancranium]

www.allagegaming.com has an exclusive interview with Remedy who made the game.
We went hands on to see for ourselves
only at www.allagegaming.com

[Dtoxz]

ok 93/100. Is that a flop? No. That's a great score. Am I going to call it a flop? No. That's a great score.

Whatever you bots might think, 93/100 is NOT a flop. So stop with the bullsh1t God of War 93/100 flop comments.

http://n4g.com/ps3/NewsCom-...
http://n4g.com/gaming/NewsC...
http://n4g.com/ps3/NewsCom-...

God of War is NOT a flop.
Alan Wake is NOT a flop.

I'm glad Xbox has a good game like this. It deserves it. I might pick it up. Not sure because Red Dead Revolver looks incredible and I don't have the time for both.

Regardless, congrats Xbox customers, this game apparently kicks a$$.

[Natsu X FairyTail]

Your comment isnt fanboy quality. You coulda post it in the gamer zone. Agree +1

[Rampaged Death]

I knew this game would be awesome as soon as I watched the first footage of it.

[LedZeppelin]

What other games have remedy made?

[Dance]

Max Payne series

[hamoor]

max payne 1&2
Dunno about any other games they made

[Dragunov]

I know the magazine. Take the review with a grain of salt, Hobby Consolas tend to be really generous with the big titles.

[MR LOOKINGBILL]

fantastic news for Alan Wake with all the stuff has happened now we all can look foward to some good gaming.

[drzmvp554]

wow Alan Wake looks beautiful...

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

Look at that scene with the water. DAMN. I change my previous comment from another thread. THIS IS THE BEST LOOKING GAME TO DATE!!!!! All those jealous sony fanboys that want to cry about resolution. Well that has nothing to do with graphics. This game blows Killzone 2 and Heavy Rain out of the water.

For all the real gamers out there, prepare yourself for one huge brand new franchise. :)

[Lionhead]

Wow you are talking about real gamers when you are one of the biggest trolls on this website.

This is a great looking game, and it may be your opinion that it is the best looking game ever that's all fine and dandy. The problem comes in when you say how much better it looks than other games.

[Traveler]

Why is he not allowed to give his opinion? People on the PS3 side do it all the time.

I like both consoles, I just despise the bias and double standards on this site.

[Lionhead]

What are you talking about, I said I wouldn't mind what he said but look through his history.

You gotta be kidding me if he doesn't fit your "bias and double standards" of this site comment.

Guys a huge troll

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

Exactly. Time and time again I get that the 360's graphical power can't match the ps3. And now we have a game that easily surpasses anything on the ps3. And I'm sure they know this since they been flooding all the sub-hd articles about Alan Wake. Resolution doesn't mean squat when it comes to graphics.

Can you really look at those video clips and say that the ps3 has something that impressive? If you do than you're clearly in denial.

It's official folks, the 360 has the graphical crown! :)

[artsaber]

She is a magna-troll, and all it would take for Alan Wake to suck is for it to switch which console it is on, and she would hate it.

On topic, game is looking pretty decent, there is a gaping hole in the scare genre, and a decent spook game is needed since the last one that comes to my mind is Dead Space.

[2-oj]

Halo3 MLG Pro i guess you sleep better now.

[cool cole]

"This game blows Killzone 2 and Heavy Rain." Fixed.

[jjesso1993]

Halo3 MLG Pro this dose not touch uncharted 1 let alone killzone 2 what do you smoke ?

yep tripple A game confirmed cant wait finally a game with good length single player cant wait to order this. but shamon are saying they game would not look better in higher resoltion ? are you telling me should go and play all pc games in 800*600. lower resolution are not somthing to make a fuss about but when sony and micrsoft came in to generation they said it was time for hd games and look five years in we are getting games near to ps2 and original xbox resoltion this would not be much problem at the begging of this generation and developers where just getting used the consoles. whats this going to look like streched on 52'' hd tv ? i download first see what it looks like on main 42'' tv in my house but will being buying for single player/

dance please explain everything i said is pure facts. have you see sd broadcast on big tv ? the fact is resoltion dose play large part when your dealing with big tv's that is made for native resoltion of 1920*1080 that means your tv will try and upscale this to that resoltion. resulting in it looking strected.

[Dance]

I think its you that is smoking the funny stuff

[Traveler]

MGS4 is 1024x768 which is 135,168 pixels less than 720p yet it still looks great. In fact, its subHD resolution doesn't stop many people from calling it one of the best looking games of the generation.

Alan Wake looks fabulous regardless of whatever its native resolution is. As I have said before, resolution has probably the smallest impact on the visual quality that we perceive.

[Rhythmattic]

Traveler

So using that argument , AW is 403,200 Pixels less.

Look, it looks great, and I will be either renting,borrowing, buying it.

As for Pixels, if anyone thinks less is more, well, your wrong.

Lets be honest, what would this look like with the same engine, doing the same tricks, running native 720p or 1080P ? Worst ?

I think not.

Its almost criminal this isnt on the PC platform.

[labwarrior]

And that is probably an understatement

Makes all the hyped paths .. errr ...coriddors ...errr .. games on PS3 look like jokes (GOW3, MGS4, Uncharted 1-2)

Crash Bandicoot on PS has bigger environments than the 10 feet paths you move in PS3 titles, thank god 360 gets some vast landscapes like AW ones

Also the lighting and foliage destroys anything on consoles by far, it is due to the DX10 video card 360 uses, while PS3 is stuck with crap foliage and a tree per mile and painted in a wall like in Uncharted (PS3 uses a DX9 video card)

[damnightmare]

Wow, really?

[XmnMetal]

Really I thought both the PS3 and 360 had both Direct 9 class cards. Alan Wake looks like its going to be a good game but your making a mocker of the 360 sounding like a fool. It been on the market longer, easier to work with it just does not add up. Theres no excuse. Nice try moron LOL!

[megacheak]

Xbox 360 GPU - a generation ahead of PS3 GPU. It has a unified shader architecture, MEMEXPORT and tessellation (some features of DX10-11). I'm not saying that the Xbox 360 more productive, as a whole (a very powerful processor helps PS3).

[Biggest]

Is this that "Xbox 360 has better graphics potential" thing again? Prove it with results, please. Can you do that much for the sane world?

[Rhythmattic]

The PS3 uses Open GL

http://www.opengl.org/news/...

The beauty of open standards, a bit like the concept behind Firefox.

[TwistedMetal]

everyone is gonna be playeing RDR online and thats what im gonna be playeing to get my moneys worth. open world OLD WESTERN with online modes and hunting and stuff with friends is better then fake horror alan cheesy wake. You gonna be wasteing your money if your not getting red dead redemption. alan wake is a rental at best.

[labwarrior]

This game is a classic, not some random generic landscape to move around and do nothing imprortant like that other crap game GTA4

[Hallmark Moment]

No way. RDR is a must buy probably going to be one of the best games this generation and the best open world game. You have to take into consideration the guy you are responding to is named >twisted Metal< and probably a PS3 fanboy.

[jay2]

Your loss.

[phello]

I have not posted in a long time but just can not believe how everyone is going on about a game they did not play, im not saying it will not be good but come on a spanish review being first are ye really going to believe what they say. If ye want to know what the game is like wait for the people pirating games cause they are usually unbiased cause they do not have any attachment to a company and will tell you straight out how the game plays. Im off to have more sake :)

[phello]

Sorry guys I noticed the disagree's did not realise ye all played the game, ill play it when it comes out but would love to know what was wrong with my comment because I would like to argue any point they may have. This is another reason why I do not comment anymore and if there is anyone just browsing like I normally do make their opinion heard.

[Microsoft_Spokesman]

FLOP WAKE.

[phello]

All of us here love games and yet ye are all fighting over brand loyalty. At the end of the day you made a discission on buying one console because you could not get all of them for whatever reason that does not mean ye have to fight about crap like resolution that ye will not even notice when playing any game. Just game on and dont forget to enjoy the summer too.

[ChronoJoe]

Sounds okay. Pre-release review at 93... so probably an 82-87 meta.

Not AAA, but a good game. (my predicition)

By the way, If anyone uses Metal Gear 4 as an example of a sub hd game, especially when comparing to 540p... I am going to flip. Metal Gear Solid 4 is 768p rather than 780, the difference isn't going to be enough to be picked up to the untrained eye, whereas 540 vs 720 is completely different.

I'm not saying I care that it's 540p, I'm just saying give Metal Gear a break. It's not in the same league of bad graphics as Alan Wake or Ratchet and Clank are.

[Mo0eY]

If this were a PS3 review, bots would claim that this is a no-name magazine and it's still a flop. However, this is a 360 review, and bots are jizzing all over it. Typical bots.

[PeptoBismol]

bots jizzing?

thats impossible. their balls haven't dropped yet

[AliTheBrit19]

Awesome, a good sign of things to come I'm sure.

[ALFAxD_CENTAURO]

Looks like Review have the last word if the game sucks or not.

I thought it was the opinion from each player, not from the review itself.

[Biggest]

That changes depending on the console, fanboy, and score. I think the equations are:

360 + Natsu + 108/100 = Review is probably the most accurate ever.

PS3 + HaloPro + 108/100 = Who cares? Reviews aren't accurate.

Switch the names to Biggest and the console and there is your new truth. I am not really that much a fanboy, but better to use me. Makes the other side feel better about life.

[CryWolf]

Damn another shooter game thats all Alan Wake is a shooter with medium end graphics but the story sounds cool tho, 360 is all about shooters like always nothing never will change with that.

[hatchimatchi]

...

93/100 isn't good enough for you? You're an idiot

Alan Wake looks awesome, graphics aren't everything and you're most likely hating on it because it's a 360 exclusive. The game looks great and if it gets reviews like this across the board it'll be the game that makes me go out and buy a 360.

[caffman]

93/100 = 9.3/10 which does happen to be the metacritic score of God of War 3.
Oh and to the poster above, nice "the critic" avatar

[vandal GAB]

Modern renderers don't work by rendering everything to a certain final on-screen resolution, but use a combination of techniques and buffers to compose the final detail-rich frames, optimizing to improve the visual experience and game performance.

Alan Wake's renderer on the Xbox360 uses about 50 different intermediate render targets in different resolutions, color depths and anti-alias settings for different purposes. These are used for example for cascaded shadow maps from sun & moon, shadow maps from flashlights, flares and street lights, z-prepass, tiled color buffers, light buffers for deferred rendering, vector blur, screen-space ambient occlusion, auto-exposure, HUD, video buffers, menus and so on. In the end all are combined to form one 720p image, with all intermediate buffer sizes selected to optimize image quality and GPU performance. All together the render targets take about 80 MB of memory, equivalent in size to over twenty 720p buffers."

[rakzztar]

i just visited metacritic.
and i saw this

The average user rating for this game is 1.9 (out of 10) based on 56 User Votes.
-.-'

[Dusdg]

Guess its a must have lol.

[DigitalAnalog]

It's been awhile since I've got a good horror fix. I'm gonna borrow my friend's 360 if it does live up to the hype and standards.

-End statement

[0LDSCH00L]

Best graphics on the 360? Are you kidding!!! I haven't been so impressed & excited for a console game since UC 1!!! This game is up with the best PS3 titles easily! Looks like the XBOX brand has finally found it's Naughty Dog! Big congrats to Remedy!

[blakstarz]

why do people continue to pull the PS3 outta their azz every time a review for a 360 game (especially if its an exclusive) and vice versa (360 fans are not excluded from this either, you folks are just as bad!) as what is funny is that most people that don't recognize a certain because its not the mainstream (IGN, Gamespot, 1up...etc) they are quick to say.. "I'll wait till a "real" gamer site reviews, or the favorite one "who the hell is "insert your site" especially if the site gave in a average score, but if its a good score from the site, people are quick to praise them and don't even know who the heck these people are....its such contradiction of people on this site as well as others when it comes to playing the fence when a game that is hyped up for a exclusive console, the chest beating begins.

[Silentmerc3nary]

Looking good!

[0LDSCH00L]

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No more suspense, Alan Wake astonished us from its production to the atmosphere that's been created, but above and beyond all, its technical mastery. Remedy used to be known for its top-notch rendering engines, and they prove again they are worthy of their fame. To be clear, none of the existing Xbox 360 games even compares to it, and even on PS3, which have more real exclusive titles, it's hard to find an equivalent. Killzone 2, Uncharted 2, Crysis, these are the few games which can compete with it. Whether it's the real-time projected shadows produced by the essential flashlight, the total absence of aliasing, the breathtaking realistic lighting effects, the huge size of certain levels, SSAO, the atmospheric effects, the humongous size of some moving objects, the vegetation which interacts with characters and wind, or the largely satisfying framerate and many other physical and graphical effects, Alan Wake never ceases to amaze you with relative ease.

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As for graphics, well, it's hard to say if the darkness enshrouding many of the games in the genre excused less than industry-leading graphics or if it is smaller development teams, not armed with the resources to make industry-leading graphics that turned to the horror genre. Whatever the case, it is rare to see a game in the dark-and-creepy category that could be a Best Graphics candidate, but Alan Wake, like EA's Dead Space before it, represents a pleasant exception. The Pacific Northwest is a rare and magnificent sight in video games, rendered in real and spooky detail in the episode I played. The forests were tall, dark and dense, light playing through branches. As Alan ran into a house for refuge, I noticed it was full of details, chairs and TVs and wall-hangings, meeting my newfound Uncharted 2 standard of amount of stuff I think a developer can render in a realistic indoors space. As some dark presence shook the house apart, I felt not that I was in a primitive diorama but that I was in a big-budget blockbuster. Even in the dark it felt I could see far across the valley, that this was a detailed world so well-rendered I could almost smell the sawed logs.

[0LDSCH00L]

LMAO! People are actually taking my bubbles!!! Why this time??? The kids on this site are pathetic.

[moomooakai]

Now lets see the other scores. :)

[Lipscomba]

Nice score!

[SephireX]

Great score. I really hope it's as good as the review says. If so, definitely a goty contender but there is intense competition so goty is still unlikely. Who knows? GTAV might surprisingly release in October and blow the competition away. Agent might even unveil itself in the near future. However, with Mafia 2 coming in August, I doubt it.

[booni3]

im getting this

[Urmomlol]

10-16 hours works for me!

[gillri]

huh!? thats running on 5 year old hardware!!!?

its amazing what developers can do with hardware if you have the talent and know-how, im looking at you PC hardware!!

all that power in todays graphics cards and a console with 512MB RAM and a ATI X1900XT is comparable with PC's best,

good job remedy!