Alan Wake – The signal review

Alan Wake - The Signal (DLC) Review

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When I completed Alan Wake, I was eager for more and I looked in the downloadable content menu to find that the signal and the writer was £9.99 each. I thought I’m not paying that when the game only cost me £3. When I was snooping round, looking for demos to play and trials to download. I saw Alan wake in the marketplace. I selected it to see what themes and wallpapers I could download. Whilst I was looking through, there was the Writer and the signal DLC’s for free. so I thought I’ll have some of that.

I’ve played the signal and all it seems like is an excuse to give you more content for not much of the work. Let’s just say thank god it’s free.

All the places that you visited in the original game, game back again, virtually identical. The only things that were different were items and objects were in glowing white text and you’d have to shine your torch on it in order to bring those items or objects into life. These items might be weapons and bullets etc.

The Story is different, this time around somebody is trying to get you out of the world that you’re stuck in and he’s transmitting a signal that is in different locations and just like the original game, you’d travel to that destination but in your path, there would be enemies, trying to kill you at every moment.

Mentioning the glowing white text again. Half way through the DLC, the glowing white text would appear with words such as boom, blast, firework and this changed the gameplay. You could strategically shine the word boom, so that would destroy and eliminate all the enemies with that field. The boom word would basically act as a flashbang. There’s one stage where you’re completely surrounded by words, these words would be ravens, enemies, possessed and these words would be around bang, so if you shined the word bang causing a light explosion, the enemies would be activated causing you to dodge their attacks.

The text would also have memories, so you’d be able to go through and see what you in the original game but only for brief moments.

The signal is most of the same but cutting corners. All I can say is, it’s the same areas and same locations and characters but with a slightly tweaked story and an interesting glowing white text gameplay element.