YouTube Review
I’ve always been wanting this game ever since it was
advertised back in 2010. At the time I didn’t have an Xbox 360. Xbox 360
exclusives in my opinion weren’t really that great, gears of war which I know
has a culture following and so does Halo. I’m not asking for haters to comment.
I’m literally just coming from another perspective. Alan Wake was the only
exclusive at the time that I thought one day, I’d own an xbox 360 and play that
game. Well that day has come and after completing it just hours ago, I’ve got
to say that it’s Meh but let me explain.
By all means, it’s not a throwaway title. It’s a deep and
heartwarming story of a man trying to find his wife that has been kidnapped by
the lady of the dark.
I picked up the game at my local games shop for only £3 and
it’s well worth the money. I might be saying it’s Meh but it’s a quality title
that you should definitely play. The gameplay was a bit repetitive but it was
only repetitive because the story was fantastic and all I wanted to do was
rescue my wife and progress on with the story. Most of the game is you going
through the forest or through a warehouse or solving little puzzles that aren’t
too hard. They are only logical puzzles. The enemies just felt like they were
slowing you down and once you started getting anywhere or you came to a big
environment, you knew that there was a enemies going to be there ranging from
little ones that only need 1 or 2 bullets to defeat with a low tolerance of
light, then there’s others that you would need a few batteries for. Just to
destroy their darkness forcefield that all the enemies have. In comparison to
call of duty single player, there would be triple or even quadruple the enemies
but because in Alan Wake, because of every enemy, you’d have to destroy their
force field because you could even fight them, it took a little bit longer to
kill the enemies and advance.
Alan Wake is a fantastic game but very cliché, you’d find
that you can guess a lot of things that are going to happen. Find yourself on a
little cart going from one place to another and before you know it, there would
be crows coming at you at the tens of hundreds. One scenario near the end of
the game. There’s a garage door that needs opening so you can carry on with the
game. It turns out that the button for the door is far away and you’ve got to
hold it down in order to open it. During this time, there are two people that
are with you. The sheriff and your best friend, they tell you to hold the
button down whilst they go and find something to hold it open. They fail to
find something so you’ve got to run before it shuts and I remember saying to
myself “something to going to happen so I’m not allowed in there and guess
what, a piece of concrete dropped blocking me from the entrance whilst the two
people I was with we’re telling me to find them and catch up with them and I
thought this was typical.
The game is split up into episodes, just like a television
series. You’ve got cliff hangers and Previously on Alan wake, for the first few
episodes, I was very eager to get home from work and start playing it straight
away but once I got to episode 3 or 4. It started to get very samey and very
repetitive. Just when you thought you were coming to the end of the episode.
The police would come or the entity would appear causing you to make a quick
escape and causing you to go off a cliff. Nothing felt like you were
progressing, it just felt like you were doing a little bit better each time.
The gameplay was great, using the flashlight to destroy your
enemies, really does throw another twist on the third person shooter franchise,
all the enemies, all the friendlies and all the objects in the game world cast
a shadow wherever you point your flashlight, either that’s on the floor or the
wall, it casts a shadow. Which is something that we are currently seeing in
mainstream games on the PS4 and the Xbox One. Dominantly the game is set at
night time which is really sets the tone. it’s quite refreshing when a portion
is actually day time but you’re always gasping for daylight because before you
know it, it’s taken away from you again.
As I said before the game was £3 from where I got it and I’d
easily play £10 for it. It’s a must play but I still need to warn you that it’s
predictable after episode 3 and 4 but the story is fantastic and it’s
fantastically well written and even though I won’t be picking up their new game
(Quantum Break) any time soon. Remedy Studios are brilliant on what they
produce and all around good gaming experience.
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