As you may already know, we got our first teaser trailer and screenshot of the new downloadable Alan Wake game last week. Not much there to see though, apart from the fact that Alan's back, and he's rocking some new threads, but it has us intrigued nonetheless.
The game is set to be fully revealed next month at the Spike VGAs, but until then here's what we want to see from it:
AND FOR MY NEXT TRICK...
We felt that towards the end of the game Alan Wake started to get pretty repetitive. At about 8 hours in, we found ourselves wandering around yet another forest, shining a torch in another enemy's face. The gameplay mechanics and location remained virtually unchanged from the beginning to the end.
We don't mind a bit of forest wandering action but we'd prefer to see a wider variety of locations, or at least see Remedy do more with the forest sections so it's not just simply go from A to B and kill all of the Taken along the way.
If they do return, there should at least be some Taken lurking around in dark buildings during these parts so the player still feels uneasy despite it being bright. Just do something with them so it's not just a resource gathering slog interspersed with stops to listen to a radio, watch TV or pick up a coffee thermos.
We'd like to see some more puzzle elements to the game too. There was the occasional move some logs into position to make a bridge brain teaser, but nothing really too interesting.
Comments
12 comments so far...
kirinnokoshin on 20 Nov '11 said:
What I'd like to see is NOT another Alan Wake game.
Middle of the road, play it safe, boring central character. Middle of the road, play it safe, boring gameplay.
That is all.
starvinbull on 20 Nov '11 said:
The gameplay was pretty awful but that was primarily because they chose to make it a run and gun action game. what would have made AW a better game? No enemies.
In the first game it's quite obvious that they had a really good town made up with residents well thought out, locations, history and a local festival. That was all good, what wasn't good was running past it all because of wave after wave of enemies.
olibigbird on 20 Nov '11 said:
bulls**t one of the best games ive ever played . it wasnt about gameplay it was about story. and what they said about rubbish ending, wrong it did tie up the story (spoiler) you defeat the darkness and save your wife, it just left a few clues to the next game. are they telling me they have never watched a show with a cliffhanger, "lost" anyone.
Obscure_Metaphor on 20 Nov '11 said:
I loved the game, and I can't wait for the next one, but I think lots of the 'issues' raised in this article aren't issues at all. Turning the daylight driving sections into action scenes is a terrible idea; the point was to show you the beauty of the world, and give you a rest from all the tension. Any good narrative has to have moments llike that, it can't just aaction and tension from start to finish.
Imaduck on 20 Nov '11 said:
I loved the fact that they left so much unanswered, it's meant to be a f**king mystery game!
The combat could do with a more gritty overhaul, a less "AW is a mechanical killer" feel and more of a human feel to it. Variety in bad guys would help, would love some big huge otherworldly beasties.
Visually it's probably overall the most impressive game I've evr seen them squeeze out of a console. I genuinely have no idea how they did it. Few rough edges but some of the views are mind boggling.
Needs to be more scary.
Keep the depth, atmosphere, beautiful soundtrack, music, the lot. Perfect.
gmcb007 on 20 Nov '11 said:
Just as long as the end is not like another bad acid trip ( that and 2 DLCs that are the the exact same thing. floating platforms FTW(!) )
vitorfernandes83 on 21 Nov '11 said:
Please please make this for the ps3 aswell, as was my favourite game on the box.
Imaduck on 21 Nov '11 said:
No offence dude, but if it was you favorite game on Xbox, um, why not play it on the Xbox?
Making ports = less time to work on the game, split resources. You can almost always see the differences between exclusives and multiplat games.
StonecoldMC on 21 Nov '11 said:
Thanks for your input. Most interesting.
kirinnokoshin on 21 Nov '11 said:
Happy to be of service.
Given the lack of input on this comment thread, it would be sensible to predict that not a great many other people care much for another Alan Wake game either.
olibigbird on 21 Nov '11 said:
Happy to be of service.
Given the lack of input on this comment thread, it would be sensible to predict that not a great many other people care much for another Alan Wake game either.
wrong again lots of people care just visit the alan wake forum, theres a strong community there. maybe theres too many idiot gamers who cannot enjoy a good story, you for example
NEO_SUPERMAN on 21 Nov '11 said:
Absolutely loved Alan Wake.
One of the most interesting, beautiful and atmospheric games on the X360.
This will prob be day 1 purchase for me, as was the last game.