He has no choice but to confront the forces of darkness with the beam of his flashlight, a handgun, and what remains of his shredded mind. A hostile supernatural presence is taking over everyone it finds, turning them against him. Wake is forced to question his sanity as, page by page, the horror story comes true before his eyes. Following her mysterious disappearance from the Pacific Northwest town of Bright Falls, he begins to discover pages of a horror story he has supposedly written, but has no memory of. The original is a “cinematic action-thriller.” The troubled author Alan Wake embarks on a desperate search for his missing wife, Alice. Given the support Remedy receives from their players (including nearly a decade of dedication from The Sudden Stop), the studio wanted to shine the “flashlight” on the fans and give this announcement to one of their most passionate communities. For this reveal, Lake is announcing the game with an open letter on The Sudden Stop, a fan-run community website that’s been covering Alan Wake and Remedy since 2012. Let’s hope that Remedy isn’t done with Alan Wake’s other possibilities, like a real sequel, yet. We wanted to bring the game to next-generation consoles and to the PlayStation audience who hasn’t been able to experience Alan Wake previously.” The original game was only available for the Xbox 360 and PC platforms. He added, “The main reason for creating Alan Wake Remastered is to bring the game to new audiences. There are a lot of things we want to work on, but timing is everything.” Then, as Remedy has grown a lot over the past few years, we are in a better place to actually work on multiple projects, which we couldn’t really do before. “In short, this just means we are in full control and ownership of the Alan Wake franchise and can do things like Alan Wake Remastered with Epic. In 2019 we got the publishing rights back from Microsoft,” said Thomas Puha, a spokesman for Remedy Entertainment, in an email to GamesBeat. “We’ve always said that we’d want to revisit Alan Wake, but a lot of things have to fall in place for that. I loved how Remedy’s Quantum Break and Control - two more recent games - made references to Alan Wake. I interviewed Sam Lake about the writing process in 2019, and we had a very enjoyable conversation. It’s a game about a writer, and it’s well written. I’m so glad that we’re going to see it come out again with 4K visuals. So there can be slight differences to the other versions in performance, but I have seen described performance issues in versions for the other systems as well.I reviewed the game back in May 2010 when it debuted, and I called it a work of art. If you are interested in that version, you should look for information on it.Īnd the version of the Remastered I am basing this on is the PS4. I never played much of the PC version, so I can't attest to that. PS: I am talking here about the original on the Xbox 360. In conclusion, like Remedy stated, the Remastered is mostly to new people to the franchise, or people that don't want to buy new hardware just to play Alan Wake. Where there were oily stains on the floor in the original, like detailed on a page in the manuscript, that are completely absent in the Remastered.īut in the original, Wake's apartment's bed only has one pillow. There is a part in the Remastered version - Stucky's garage - which feels not fully fleshed out like in the original. original vision and being Remedy developed.much more fleshed out and on point developer commentary.much smoother technical performance, pretty much without any bugs, visual or otherwise (the only exception being the moving bridge in chapter 5 which has a janky animation to it) that makes for a much more immersive experience.high definition graphics, although the updated graphics, and especially the character models, look weird sometimes (like necks bending to unnatural and almost impossible angles, scenes where the faces look weird and different or moments where the lighting shifts dramatically in night sections briefly) Īnd the strong points of the original in relation to the remaster are:.The strong points of the remaster in relation to the original game are: Having played some more of the remaster I came to a complete picture of the Remastered.
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