I didn’t want to be harsh with Alan Wake, because i like the plot and Sam Lake's crazy storytelling. But unfortunately, this game is horrible. The first two hours are pretty cool, inviting, intriguing, some horror moments, but after that it's all downhill.
Eventually the game abruptly stop the story events to throw a big round of enemies to face, for no reason. The plot doesn't progress, it has no rhythm at all. The gameplay is EXTREMELY repetitive, boring, uninspired, and no story can hold this shitshow together. It's clear that they made a 4-hour game and Microsoft forced Remedy to extend the campaign to at least 12-hours. Because there are hordes and more hordes of senseless enemies ALL the time, a terrible gameplay loop.
Remedy lost its way in the proposal of its game. Alan Wake wants to be a intriguing storytelling game with shootaround and horror moments, like Spec Ops: The Line, Silent Hill or Resident Evil. But it fails miserably in every possible way. Besides being a bad game, it's also predictable. Extremely dated.
Eventually the game abruptly stop the story events to throw a big round of enemies to face, for no reason. The plot doesn't progress, it has no rhythm at all. The gameplay is EXTREMELY repetitive, boring, uninspired, and no story can hold this shitshow together. It's clear that they made a 4-hour game and Microsoft forced Remedy to extend the campaign to at least 12-hours. Because there are hordes and more hordes of senseless enemies ALL the time, a terrible gameplay loop.
Remedy lost its way in the proposal of its game. Alan Wake wants to be a intriguing storytelling game with shootaround and horror moments, like Spec Ops: The Line, Silent Hill or Resident Evil. But it fails miserably in every possible way. Besides being a bad game, it's also predictable. Extremely dated.