GoozerNation.com: Alan Wake - Value Bin Review

While widely talked about in 2010, and into 2011, Alan Wake was one of those games that everyone wanted to try out, but never got around to until much later. Mike D of GoozerNation takes a look at this game, and offers a bit of love for a series that didn't exactly do well initially.

[SlipperyMooseCakes]

Amazing game. Go out and check it out if you're up for a good story based game.

[Active Reload]

This game is good, but if Lost was longer or as long as AW, it would blow AW out of the water. AW may have the shooting and graphics but that's about it, besides the length.

[DeeZee]

I still need to play this game, it was one of the ones I had no time to play last year. Might pick it up when I'm getting my 3DS.

[Picnic]

I haven't played Alan Wake but I wonder whether Remedy talking about Stephen King (which many of the game's buyers might never have read or regard as particularly classic to survival horror games in a Lovecraft way) or about the game as being like a TV serial (just makes you think 'cheaper than a movie then') or the punnish name of the game itself put some people off.

But it was probably more to do with a paucity of screenshots which mostly looked similar to each other and reports of the linearity of the game (when we were looking forward to this putting other next gen games to shame) and similarity of the enemies to each other.

Still, despite all of this it sounds like a solid game and sometimes seems to look graphically stunning so I would like to play it and a sequel. But I would like to see more daylight scenes than I have read about please and for it to have some looseness rather than just a tight objective nature.

[CrazyOrange]

Want AW2 :(

[Lamarthedancer]

I feel sorry for the people who wanted to get it on PC, shame they cancelled that version.

I still believe this would of done better if it was released on the PC and PS3 only. Heavy Rain shows that theres people who have a PS3 who care a lot about a game being Story driven like Alan Wake.

[BabyTownFrolics]

remedy had their reasons for going exclusive with the 360.

namely money and the opportunity to create a brand new engine so that they wont have to use a 3rd party engine.

also alan wake sold over 1 million copies, so that money and the exclusivity money meant the risk of releasing a new ip would be padded by guaranteed profit.

all games would sell more if they were released as multiplats, except maybe enslaved.

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[KILLERAPP]

I enjoyed Alan Wake very much it was a awesome game but what really got me going was the ending, I don’t know if they will make part two but when the game ended I wanted to know more and look for info online where there was a debate already over the ending about what it meant but I want to know what happens to Alan I want to continue his story hopefully they will continue with Alan wake part two and expand on the game, it was a great game people compare it to Heavy Rain and there not the same type of game both are story driven but both are very different, I enjoy heavy rain very much bought it day one and it was awesome the same can be said for Alan wake love the rock and roll part it was freaking awesome… Hope they keep making games like this and Heavy Rain…

[Workshyskiver]

Word on the "street" is that a sequel is definitely coming, the DLC sales and that the game has sold well, just not quickly, made MS give the green light.

[KILLERAPP]

Good cause I need to know what happens to Alan…