Alan Wake is coming to Dead by Daylight at the end of this month, the tortured writer set to be the latest survivor in the long-running multiplayer horror game, but how did this come to be and what will Alan play like?
Alan Wake 2 — A tardy review reminding you not to skip this gaming masterpiece
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Alan Wake 2 is a masterpiece of video game design, full of so many memorable scenes. Everybody knows this thanks to plenitude of Game of the Year awards and the oddball dance routine at The Game Awards.
It’s my favorite game of 2023, easily beating out other contenders like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. It’s the kind of experience you might get if you took a film like Inception and stretched it out for 33 hours — in an articulation of horror, comedy and weirdness. In a good way.
Somehow, I feel compelled to add my own review of the game for posterity. It’s like some dark and twisted demon is forcing me to go down this road that so many critics have already been down. But before we say goodbye to the games of the fall of 2023, I want to remind you to play this one.
I knew this was going to be a weighty game, as it came out 13 years after the original psychological thriller, which I rated at 95 out of 100 in a review that came out in 2010.
In that review, I wrote, “Alan Wake is a work of art, and it’s one of the best video games I’ve ever played. It deserves critical accolades, but the jury is out as to whether it will also be a commercial success.”
I’m pretty sure this sequel is going to sell well without my help. But what I’d like to say is that the experience of playing Alan Wake 2 is going to change the way you think about video games. You’ll remember how you wove and threaded the experience in your own unique way, like you were crafting the story yourself. As Alan Wake is a character who is a writer, and you are the player, it feels like the plot itself was designed to make you understand the creative process.
Although it’s a sequel, Alan Wake 2 makes the original game look like child’s play. While you could finish Alan Wake in six to 12 hours, I played Alan Wake 2 for 33 hours.
In an interview with me in September and at a press event at Gamescom in August, Lake forewarned us it would be full of literary and film references as he rattled off the inspirations. Those inspirations included detective and horror tales like True Detective, Silence of the Lambs, David Lynch works like Twin Peaks, the works of the Cohen brothers like Fargo; other films like Seven, Taxi Driver, Inception, Memento and Fight Club. For games, the inspirations included Inscryption, Resident Evil, Silent Hill and more. And then there are books like the works of Stephen King. This is one reason it’s so hard to describe the game.
The new game extends the innovative game style that revolves around manipulating the power of light against the forces of darkness. In the shooting part of the game, you zap the enemies —
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