Over the last few days, I’ve been playing an early version of Alan Wake Remastered on PC. After the main six chapters, there are two DLCs which expand on certain elements a bit more. It is entirely beatable within 12 hours, making it a great story to experience during the Halloween season, but I’d recommend against playing it all in one go to avoid burning out. Alan Wake’s story is told over six chapters, with each taking one to two hours to complete. The mystery surrounding Bright Falls, Cauldron Lake and the characters should be enough to push you through to the end of the game. Instead, this game finds its footing in creating a foreboding atmosphere and maintaining it throughout the game. Some level variety is introduced through small environmental puzzles, such as creating a bridge in a logging camp using a log lift, and some areas require very light platforming, but the game isn’t tuned for jumping around and freedom of movement is not this game’s specialty. It doesn’t take long to master the systems and once you reach that point, enemy encounters aren’t as tense as they once were. Later in the game, you will also get access to a hunting rifle, which is more effective at range and standard flares that damage shields but don’t kill taken, unlike the flare gun.Ĭombat and enemy encounters don’t change much throughout the game and unlike Remedy’s most recent game, Control, Alan Wake’s combat is slow paced, after all, you are playing as an author with little in the way of combat training.Īfter a few hours playing as Wake and getting used to the combat, it does start to get repetitive. You’ll also get a flare gun, which can be used to immediately break shields and wipe out enemies instantly, but once again, ammo is very scarce, so you’ll want to use these sparingly and possibly only use them during boss fights. You start off with a revolver, a medium-damage weapon, but shortly into Episode 2, you’ll get a shotgun, which has a damage boost, but is very limited on ammo. In most instances, you’ll be fighting the same way, creating some distance between you and the enemy to avoid getting rushed, shining your torch on them to break the shield, and then firing away. Taken are the same shadow-clad, axe-wielding humans we encountered at the start of the game, some have beefier shields and take more bullets to beat, others are faster, and others can throw weapons at a distance. This covers the introduction to the game, with the remaining chapters centring around Wake and his search for his wife, all while experiencing supernatural events and encountering ‘Taken’, the main enemy in the game. It doesn’t take long for things to go wrong, Alice falls into the lake, Wake dives in after her and we wake up once again in a dark forest near the mountains, tasked with making our way through the area to reach the brightly lit building at the end. We enter a small diner, grab a key from a woman dressed up for a funeral and then we head off to a lakeside cabin on Cauldron Lake. Eventually, we reach the end of the level, and our titular character wakes up, revealing that this was a dream.Īlan Wake and his wife, Alice, are arriving in the small mountain town of Bright Falls, vacationing in from New York City, where Wake, a famous author, has been suffering from writer’s block. If you take damage, you can heal up under these brightly lit areas known as Safe Havens. Through this sequence, we’re introduced to dodging enemy attacks, shining a torch at enemies to stun them and break their dark armour, and shooting them with a revolver. The game opens with Wake running over a man with his car, only to get out and find that the body has disappeared, shortly after, a shadow-clad figure begins chasing you with an axe.
Today for KitGuru Games, we’ll be looking at whether this cult-classic still holds up in 2021 and whether the remaster is worth the upgrade.Īlan Wake is a game that aims to blend elements of psychological thriller with cinematic action. Now over a decade later, the game has been remastered for modern consoles and PC.
#ALAN WAKE REMASTERED CUTSCENE AUDIO PC#
Alan Wake originally launched as an Xbox 360 exclusive all the way back in 2010, followed by a PC release in 2012.
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