Alan Wake 2, the long-awaited sequel to Remedy Entertainment’s 2010 cult action-horror game, was released last week and has already inspired an effusive reception.
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Alan Wake 2 is almost here, and if you'd like a quick catch-up on what happened in the first game to ensure you're up to speed, Epic Games has you covered. Alan Wake: Flashback is a «reimagining» of the events of Alan Wake—a sort of playable crash course recap created using the Unreal Editor for Fortnite.
Remedy has previously said that experience with the original Alan Wake won't be necessary to enjoy and understand the sequel (as much as anyone understands an Alan Wake game, I suppose). Even so, I think it's a good idea to offer fans a refresher—it's been more than a decade since Alan Wake came to PC, don't forget.
Alan Wake: Flashback isn't a full recreation of that spooky action-thriller in Fortnite, but instead compresses the story into a roughly half-hour of singleplayer action. Obviously that's going to mean a lot of details are glossed over, but the broad strokes are there: Troubled author Alan Wake searches for his missing wife in the small Pacific Northwest town of Bright Falls, and discovers pages of a new horror story he seems to have written—but has no memory of.
Prospective players can access Alan Wake: Flashback through Fortnite Discover, or get to it directly with island code 3426-5561-3374. Of course you'll need to have Fortnite installed to do that, but hey, it's free.
Fortnite is no stranger to brand crossovers, but this one seems more elaborate than most. It's short, yes, but still a fully playable game-within-a-game, and—the presence of Fornite avatars aside—it looks and sounds like the real deal. But Epic has more incentive than usual to go all-in on Alan Wake promotion: As we noted earlier this year, Alan Wake 2 will be the first big release to come out of Epic Games Publishing, and Epic fully funded its development. It's unlikely that a single game release is going to make or break the company, but given Epic's recent surprise financial woes, it's no doubt eager for Alan Wake 2 to be a big hit.
Naturally, anyone who purchases Alan Wake 2 on the Epic Games Store—the only place to get it on PC—will get some Alan Wake cosmetics to use in Fortnite, too.
Alan Wake 2, the long-awaited sequel to Remedy Entertainment’s 2010 cult action-horror game, was released last week and has already inspired an effusive reception.
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To say that Alan Wake 2 hooked me at the outset would be an understatement. The survival-horror masterpiece was gripping, surreal, and creepy from the second Remedy Entertainment gave me control of a naked man who had just crawled out of a supernatural lake and found himself lost in the woods and hunted by a maniacal cult. But one sequence, a little more than halfway through the story, convinced me that I was truly playing a game for the ages.
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It’s no secret that sometimes it takes a LONG time for a video game to get the sequel it deserves. The irony is that sometimes these sequels come from genre-defining titles and ones that sold many millions of copies upon their release. An excellent example is with a certain horror franchise that Remedy Entertainment made a long time ago. Despite the unique setting, story, protagonist, and horror elements, there was no sequel to the game…until now, that is. After a long period of teases, rumors, and waiting, Alan Wake 2 is now available for purchase, and the teams behind the game are excited to talk about it.
Find out how you can pry open locks with the Screwdriver in Alan Wake 2.
I’m hard-pressed to remember a game with as shockingly effective an opening as Alan Wake 2. From the outset, Remedy Entertainment makes its intent explicitly clear: to amplify every facet of its 2010 action-horror cult classic, and in doing so, subvert interactive storytelling tropes at every turn. Astoundingly, the studio’s grasp meets its reach, delivering an experience far darker, deeper, and weirder than anything it has crafted before.
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Developer Remedy Entertainment has released a new video on the way to Alan Wake 2‘s release later this month. The video offers up a recap of the events of the original Alan Wake to help players that may not have played the predecessor to the upcoming horror title. Check it out below.
Before the release of Alan Wake 2 later this month, Epic Games is offering Fortnite players the chance to experience a much-needed recap of the terrifying survival horror game.