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17.08.2023 - 15:27 / thesixthaxis.com / Alan Wake
Alan Wake 2 has been delayed, but thankfully only by ten days. This means that instead of 17th October, the Alan Wake 2 release date is now 27th October.
In the announcement tweet, the Alan Wake 2 team at Remedy said, “October is an amazing month for game launches and we hope this date shift gives more space for everyone to enjoy their favorite games,” before teasing some new trailer or news that is due during Gamescom 2023 next week.
As always, October and November are absolutely packed with releases, and developers and publishers are always keen to try and carve out their own little space within that. Assassin’s Creed Mirage has come forward by a week, in a recent shift to earlier in the month, but Alan Wake 2’s slight delay makes a bit of sense as it brings the game closer to Halloween, but also gets a smidgeon of separation from other major game releases.
Here’s the lay of the release schedule land:
A long-awaited and much requested sequel, Alan Wake 2 will be a full survival horror game, shifting the game’s story, atmosphere, pacing and gameplay to match. There will be daytime scenes still, where you’ll meet quirky characters and have moments of lightness, but when things get dark and scary, brace yourself for getting spooked. Importantly, they note that it should still be enjoyable for those that want more of the story.
Alan will not be the only playable character in the game. Joining him is FBI Agent Saga Anderson, a profiler who has a knack for solving the impossible cases. This is her first step into the supernatural, but Alan is an old hand at it by this point with a harrowing past. You will be free to switch between the characters when you like, so you could play all the way through as Saga and not play as Alan as well.
Their paths will become intertwined in Bright Falls, a small town in the Pacific Northwest, with Anderson on the trail of some ritualistic murders in the area, with things somehow leading to Alan Wake, who went missing some 13 years ago. After a certain point you’ll be able to play through either of their stories in the order of your choice, with echoing and foreshadowing between. They duo will discover pages of a horror story written by a certain writer and that story start to become true.
Alan Wake 2 is coming to PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S on 27th October.
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While September is packed with big games, October looks no less epic, especially with titles like Remedy Entertainment’s Alan Wake 2 on the horizon. The developer recently showcased Wake in The Dark Place, a nightmare reality based on a person’s subconscious. In his case, it’s a replica of New York City.
Remedy Games has released the third video of its Alan Wake 2 behind-the-scenes series, featuring the game's actors and showing the frightful Dark Place.
Thirteen years is a long time to spend in a Hell of your own mind’s making, so it’s a blessing in disguise that Alan Wake has a case of the video game amnesia about much of that time. There’s a glimmer of hope for him though, as Alan Wake 2 gives him a fresh chance to find a way out and get back to the real world.
Remedy Entertainment recently announced that it had pushed back Alan Wake 2’s launch by 10 days to later in October, stating that it was moving to a later window due to the crowded release schedule for mid-October this year.
The launch of Alan Wake 2 is slowly but surely creeping up on us, and soon we’ll be able to explore the mysteries of The Dark Place in the highly anticipated sequel from developer Remedy. To help celebrate this monumental release, 13 years in the making, Nvidia is giving you the chance to win a GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card, with a custom Alan Wake 2 backplate.
Alan Wake 2 promises to be a fairly different game from its predecessor, and that’s a good thing. While the atmosphere and setting of the original Alan Wake in 2010 was certainly ominous and surreal, it’s held back by a rather clunky combat system. Fortunately, the move to a more pure survival horror game with Alan Wake 2 ensures that this won’t be the case again, something developer Remedy confirms with PCGamesN at Gamescom 2023.
NVIDIA has teamed up with Remedy Entertainment to give away a unique and rare Alan Wake II-inspired GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card.
As we get our latest look at Alan Wake 2 during Gamescom 2023, Remedy creative director Sam Lake says the team “could not have made this game earlier.” In an interview attended by PCGamesN at the event, Lake and Alan Wake 2 director Kyle Rowley tell us how the survival horror game plays on the history of Remedy itself.
Remedy Entertainment’s portfolio of titles includes some of the most renowned in the industry, such as Max Payne and Alan Wake. While the developer has created a connected universe with more recent titles, not all the games it’s ever made are part of it.
Action-horror sequel Alan Wake 2 showed up to last night’s Gamescom festivities with a cryptic trailer (below) that showed the studio’s signature Lynchian mystery, an upside-down New York, and some interesting live-action scenes. But references to Remedy’s past games have been the big conversation driver, especially since the studio is building up a “Remedy Connected Universe.” Creative director Sam Lake has now clarified that time-bending shooter Quantum Break and the Max Payne games aren’t cool enough to join the Remedy-verse, while also breaking down their approach to these shared-world games.
What’s it like to be trapped in a hell of your own making? For writer Alan Wake, that’s the story he’s trying to tell. And after watching a full 40-minute demo, played from the perspective of Wake himself, it certainly looks set to be a tale worth telling. Taking place in an area called The Dark Place, this lengthy slice of the story follows Alan as he makes his way through an oppressive and haunting replica of New York City riddled with danger, gunfights, and puzzles. It’s classic survival horror but with the distinct edge of developer Remedy - smart, engrossing, and consistently odd.