AusGamers has reached it to the end of Alan Wake's book, having watched and played through every episode, and reasonably happy with the outcome.
Definitely standing as one of the most unique narrative presentations in a videogame,
Alan Wake offers players a television-series style format that sees levels played out as 'episodes' replete with each one opening "Previously, On Alan Wake...". It makes the game engaging and compelling in a different kind of way. However, we did have a few issues with various parts of it, all of which you can read about in our review.
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Posted 02:54pm 12/5/10
I love Ausgamers reviews.
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Posted 03:17pm 12/5/10
b) Wait for 1st price drop
c) Bargain Bin
d) No Buy
e) Send the developers some faeces in the mail
This game probably rates around (b) then
Posted 03:30pm 12/5/10
good concept but just not quite there yet.
Posted 03:39pm 12/5/10
I will still check it out once it hits the bargain bin though no doubt!
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Posted 04:07pm 12/5/10
agree, was looking forward to this then the made it less sandbox for memory and then xbox only when it was meant to be pc only at the start.
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mV2AYoKc1u8 oh how things have changed
Posted 04:39pm 12/5/10
It was announced as a next gen console and PC title.
Nice review Steve.
Posted 04:44pm 12/5/10
I'm *hoping* Alan wake delivers something like that, still sounds like a good game, 7.9 is hardly a bad score, a flawed masterpiece maybe? Either way I've been waiting for 5 years for it, even if the game totally sucks, I still have to buy it, I'm too committed to pull out now.
Posted 05:08pm 12/5/10
As a port yea, but as a PC game hell no.
Posted 05:20pm 12/5/10
Posted 05:54pm 12/5/10
I'm sorry but someone had to do it.... i mean.. say it.
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Posted 11:27pm 12/5/10
Heh, I realised as I was typing it that there would probably end up being some kind of "pull out" related joke. I'm glad it was you though <3
Posted 12:12am 13/5/10
Posted 07:32am 13/5/10
heh, this should be our official game rating scores!
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Posted 10:12pm 21/5/10
game story line is loosely related to Stephen King's newish one Under The Dome, in that it has fat cops running around like mad chasing some random guy and a small town is in chaos/confusion (although no mysterious Halo-like dome covers the town and the only externalities are freight locomotives and a blackhawk (that oddly goes down, just like in the movie)
It's a shame how the producers neutered the original plans for use of quad core i7 and physx and you can really see how it would have added to the intensity of the gameplay experience when you are watching the cut scenes where they have substituted unladen gpu and cpu power with sprites and bitmap overlay tricks
At a guess I would have to pick it as being an Epic custom Unreal engine or possibly Crytek based, and that's without even having any pre reading of the semantics of the tech used in this one so correct me if I'm wrong.
Bit harsh on a 7.9 Steve but I can understand how you came to that given your disappointments (yeah enemy diversity is very lax and gets boring quick like)
I'm giving this one a good old school C++ for the most engaging story outside of anything that doesn't have dragooons in it
Posted 10:17pm 21/5/10
Posted 10:54pm 21/5/10
maybe the recurring theme is because he likes the po po
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Posted 02:59am 22/5/10
In fact, a friend of mine asked me over msn to give a quick description of what its like, and I pretty much described it as a playable stephen king story.
Thats just from my initial impressions though, I still haven't had a chance to play it more than a few hours yet, and I heard some vague rumour type stuff that the story involves old gods so it may even get a bit of H. P. Lovecraft in there, who knows (well, I'm sure people who've finished it know, but it was a rhetorical question, I don't want the answer, I don't want spoilers :P)
Posted 09:38pm 22/5/10
Posted 11:43pm 23/5/10
It's not a lake...... it's an ocean O_O
Spoiler:
Havok tornado towards the end almost one ups the nuke explosion in Half Life 2
brilliant game, even if it is darker than the ace of spades and more twisted than Conroys Internet filtering policy
last edited by trillion at 23:43:36 23/May/10
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Posted 12:27am 24/5/10
actually now that i think about it, what im reffering to happened in either episode 1 or 2 but definately wasn't in the lost coast
Posted 12:39am 24/5/10
http://www.mygamercard.net/tracker.php#AlanWake