Review: Alan Wake
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I'm so glad I have the Special Edition pre-ordered now.
I thought I was taking a gamble on this but now after seeing lots of 9/10's and similar I just cant wait to get my hands on it. I love games with a great story and this a game built around a story so it could just be my favourite game of the year, hope so
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I thought I was taking a gamble on this but now after seeing lots of 9/10's and similar I just cant wait to get my hands on it. I love games with a great story and this a game built around a story so it could just be my favourite game of the year, hope so
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If they were less of a slap in the face, I don't think I'd have minded them all that much. I appreciate that in places they're in place to create tension or fear - trying to rev up a generator while Taken are in hot pursuit, for example. But the rest of Wake's gameplay is so unobtrusive that to suddenly have a big green "A" staring you in the face is very jarring.StriderShinryu said:
They didn't bother me at all in Heavy Rain, largely, I think, because hitting controller buttons was intrinsic to the gameplay no matter what you were doing, QTE or not. The instruction to hit X didn't feel like it was suddenly coming out of nowhere, because you'd been doing that the whole time.
Hmmm, I can already hear Yahtzee calling this a Silent Hill rip off and condemning it to the ninth circle of hell for it since we all know how much of a SH fanboy he is....lol
That and the game I've heard ends with a cliffhanger...lol
That and the game I've heard ends with a cliffhanger...lol
Thank you for the brilliant review, Susan. I would've picked the game up anyway (been waiting 5 years), but it's great to have such an obvious recommendtaion from the magazine that I trust the most.
Can't wait!
Can't wait!
Red Dead seems to have more replay value and longer play, thats what i'm getting at least. Alan Wake will have to be bought another time unfortunatly...Tdc2182 said:
He's voiced by Mathew Poretta. You know, the guy from Men In Tights [http://lea87.blogs.allocine.fr/blogsdatas/mdata/1/6/7/Z20051005084305673584761/img/1996-97_matthew_porretta.jpg].Woodsey said:
Carth was a guy called Raphael Sbarge.
Two completely different experiences but, yes, Red Dead absolutely has more replay value, as well as multiplayer, co-op, and suchlike.Flamezdudes said:
That was a great review, and it made me very happy that I have my pre-orders structured so that I receive Alan Wake before I receive Red Dead Redemption. I want to devote a good number of days to getting the wits scared out of me before jumping into the land of do-as-you-please.
I'm REALLY on the fence with this game.
On the one hand it seems to go for kind of different type of fear - sort of cozy and rustic a la Twin Peaks - wich I seriously dig. On the other hand.......uhmmmmm........... Ah fuck, I think I'm gonna have to buy this game.
On the one hand it seems to go for kind of different type of fear - sort of cozy and rustic a la Twin Peaks - wich I seriously dig. On the other hand.......uhmmmmm........... Ah fuck, I think I'm gonna have to buy this game.
I think I'll get this after reading your review. I honestly didn't believe it would live up to the hype. Having said that I still want a couple of more dragonage play throughs, then play Arkham asylum and Mass Effect 2. The price should have dropped by then.
That was my reaction to watching the review supplement. "Oh, right, duck a train car, he's toast...er...wait, what? Is that a Nerf train or is Alan secretly Kryptonian?" I'd add that to the list of immersion breaks.Hubilub said:
Hm. I'm not the type to directly request things, as that's silly, but I can't help thinking a game like this must be on Yahtzee's radar. Assuming it ever emerges in Australia.