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Alan Wake
« on: August 22, 2007, 01:36:24 PM »
Not sure if you guys have heard about this title but it really seems interesting. I personally miss the old adventure titles that they used to make. Lucas Arts used to make some really fun ones that regardless of the graphics were a ton of fun like "Full Throttle" and "Hugo's House of Horror's" and actually a very cool one called "The Dig".

Anyways definetly worth a look i first saw this game when reviewing the MS press conference for "Games for Windows" at E3 2007. Oh yeah its DX10 ;)

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Alan Wake is a bestselling horror writer. Early on in his career, his fiancée Alice, was his muse. When he'd first met her, he had started to see strange dreams which he used as material for his first book. The book was a big success. It was a dream come true.

But then Wake's fiancée vanished without a trace. Wake was devastated. After that, he couldn't write anymore. His dreams stopped and he began to suffer from insomnia.

At the beginning of the game, Wake travels to a sleep clinic to seek treatment for his condition. The secluded clinic is located near the small town of Bright Falls, Washington, far away from the stressful urban lifestyle. Receiving treatment at the clinic, Wake is able to sleep again. At the clinic, he meets a mysterious woman who is the very image of his missing fiancée, uncannily so. At once, his dreams return, this time as terrible nightmares. Wake begins to write again: a new book based on those nightmares.

But something is horribly, horribly wrong.

Impossibly, the town of Bright Falls starts to change to something awful that bears a close resemblance to Wake's new book. Wake ends up fighting for his life with a gun and a flashlight in his hands, trying to understand what's happening.








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Re: Alan Wake
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2007, 02:12:30 PM »
Yeah, I've been keeping an eye on this since it was first announced. Graphics and environment look impressive, creating a very nice atmosphere. Seems like it's gonna have a very deep story, almost like an interactive movie.


btw, Remedy are the creators of Max Payne.

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Re: Alan Wake
« Reply #2 on: August 22, 2007, 03:07:01 PM »
Yeah i just really hope that the story is immersive enough for me not to mind the cutscenes so much. Cause we all know what happends when there are too many cutscense *cough* NWN2 *cough*

Plus if these guys made max payne i expect a very feature movie type feel which for a game like this is definetly a good direction to go.

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Re: Alan Wake
« Reply #3 on: August 22, 2007, 08:02:31 PM »
Not sure if you guys have heard about this title but it really seems interesting. I personally miss the old adventure titles that they used to make. Lucas Arts used to make some really fun ones that regardless of the graphics were a ton of fun

Lucas Arts made excellent adventure games when VGA was still cutting edge technology for home users and 256 colors could enthuse anyone. The original Monkey Island or Indiana Jones 3 looked very, very good back in those days.

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Re: Alan Wake
« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2007, 11:37:50 PM »
This looks cool. My GF may really like this.

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Re: Alan Wake
« Reply #5 on: August 25, 2007, 02:27:16 PM »
interesting