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.
11.08.2023 - 19:33 / gameranx.com / Saga Anderson / Geoff Keighley / Alan Wake / Will
A few notable showcases happen each year for the video game industry. Gamescom Opening Night Live is one of the upcoming showcases you might be interested in streaming. This streaming event will feature host Geoff Keighley again, bringing out a series of updates and announcements for the video game industry. In fact, recently, Geoff took to Twitter and alerted fans of one video game in particular that will have a showcase.
If you haven’t been keeping track, Gamescom Opening Night Live will be kicking off on August 22, 2023, at 2 PM EST. Hopefully, the stream will hold a few notable video game reveals you’ve been waiting on. Likewise, there should be plenty of video game updates to some of the already previously revealed video games. For instance, one title that will be featured at the event for another showcase is the highly anticipated sequel to Alan Wake. We don’t know what exactly will be featured, but according to the event’s host, Geoff Keighley, you’ll find that Alan Wake 2 will have a brand new reveal.
Alan Wake is in the dark place…don’t miss the brand new reveal from @alanwake 2 live during @gamescom Opening Night Live on Tuesday, August 22.Streaming live everywhere at 8p CEST/7p BST/2p ET/11a PT at https://t.co/AFycLZGHNd pic.twitter.com/o98AcKKfsd
This reveal will further help get fans excited, as it won’t be too long afterward that we’ll actually get our hands on the game. Alan Wake 2 is set to release this October, so marketing should really ramp up as we approach its launch date. Of course, if you haven’t been keeping tabs on the game, we do have some information to go off from. We know that Alan Wake 2 will take place over a decade after the events of the first game. Alan is still very much missing, and while society has moved on, this vanished author might finally find a way back home.
While we know that this game campaign will feature Alan Wake, you will also get to take the role of a new character. This campaign will be split between Alan and an FBI agent named Saga Anderson, who is sent to Bright Falls in order to investigate a series of ritualistic murders. Currently, Alan Wake 2 is set to launch into the marketplace on October 17, 2023. When the game does release, you’ll find that this title will be available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC platforms. Meanwhile, you’ll find that this game installment will be a complete survival horror experience. In fact, most recently, we learned that Alan Wake 2 developers took some inspiration from the Resident Evil franchise.
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.
At Gamescom Opening Night Live 2023, Remedy Entertainment debuted a new trailer of Alan Wake 2, finally giving us a new look at the titular protagonist and The Dark Place, after previously having focused on newcomer Saga Anderson, who’s in Bright Falls. That’s not all, however, because Alan Wake 2 gameplay footage is also starting to emerge from Gamescom, and the survival horror title is continuing to look impressive.
In Alan Wake 2, the world is conspiring to topple the ailing writer. At Gamescom 2023, Remedy Entertainment showed GamesRadar+ an exclusive gameplay demo that descended into the Dark Place, the prison that has held Wake for 13 years. It's here where the shift towards survival horror is most stark – a twisted New York City, suffocating beneath a sheet of rain, where twisting figures stand in every shadow.
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.
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.
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.
You might have wondered why the latest Alan Wake 2 trailer, fresh from Opening Night Live 2023, includes a glimpse at a character who looks like Max Payne.
The much-anticipated Alan Wake II is only a couple of months away at this point, feeling so soon all of a sudden despite a lengthy wait. Among the unique draws of Remedy’s latest horror game is the use of dual protagonists in the form of writer Alan Wake and FBI agent Saga Anderson. And while the last bit of gameplay we saw from Summer Game Fest focused on Saga, a larger focus was put on Alan this time around during the new trailer that debuted during Gamescom Opening Night Live, and as Saga’s adventures are in the real world, Alan finds himself dealing with the surreal realm of the Dark Place.
Remedy Entertainment's upcoming horror title Alan Wake 2 has received some brand new preview footage ahead of its planned release on October 17 this year.