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Alan wake remastered review11/30/2023 ![]() ![]() This is gonna be one hell of a holiday, one you’re bound to remember for the rest of your life…Īlan Wake Remastered is a third-person action game with mild horror jump scares and a gripping thriller narrative throughout. Not only are you now on a mission to find your wife, but you must also fend off these mysterious ghost-like spirits, possessed townsfolk and vehicles, and collect the pages from a manuscript you don’t recall writing yet seem to describe future events. He makes an attempt to reach the nearby gas station when he realises, the evil, shadowy figures of his dreams are real and they’re not friendly… Not long into their trip, things tragically take a turn for the worst – an incident occurs at the cabin, Alice goes missing, and Alan blacks out for a whole week, awakening at the wheel of his car having driven off the road at some point. Before even stepping foot upon this isolated island, Alan is haunted by a disturbing dream filled with ghostly apparitions which can only be defeated by using lights to make them solid then finishing the job with a trusty firearm.Ĭlearly a nightmare isn’t anything to worry about, it may be disturbing and quite frightening, but it’s not like it’s real… right?! ![]() As such, he and his wife, Alice, plan a trip to Bright Falls at the recommendation of his friend and agent, Barry. The question is, does it hold up today and is it as good as people make it out to be? Let’s find out…Īlan Wake is a supernatural horror game staring the titular protagonist, a bestselling crime novelist who has been suffering from writer’s block for the last two years. Thus, with the backing of Epic Games and support from d3t Ltd, Remedy have released the long-awaited Alan Wake Remaster, not only on Xbox and PC platforms, but on Sony’s PlayStation for the first time! The IP was owned by Microsoft and remained dormant up until 2019, when Remedy were finally able to acquire it. ![]() After two years of pushing by the developers, the game finally came to PC thanks to Nitro Games, just in time for the spin-off, American Nightmare, which launched a few days later on Xbox and on PC in the following months. Well, not until last week when I had the chance to play Alan Wake Remastered on the PlayStation 5 all the way through, including the two DLC expansions.Īlan Wake launched as an Xbox 360 exclusive back in 2010, Remedy wanted the game to launch on both Xbox and PC but Microsoft cancelled the latter due to presuming you’d only enjoy the game and it’s atmosphere if playing from a couch, rather than a PC monitor on a desk. ![]() Since then, I’ve heard a lot of great things about the title, seen all the requests and demands for a sequel, and I’ve even played the AWE DLC for Control – yet I still never went back to see what all the fuss was about. For all technical details on the game, please refer to Digital Foundry's tech review video that is embedded below.A few generations ago, my choice of console was the Xbox 360 – mainly due to the exclusives – yet I was never really a fan of stealth, horror, or spooky games, so I never had any interest in trying out Alan Wake when it originally launched back in 2010. Overall, Alan Wake Remastered is still a worthy remake of one of the great games of the Xbox 360 era. The game also lacks some modern features like HDR and raytracing support. It was already known since the official announcement that Alan Wake Remastered would include both DLCs The Writer and The Signal, but the standalone add-on Alan Wake's American Nightmare is unfortunately missing from the remaster. The PlayStation 5 version of Alan Wake Remastered appears to be dropping a few more frames here and there, but in comparison to the Xbox version there is no screen tearing thanks to activated V-Sync. On PS5 and Xbox Series X, the remaster is rendered at a resolution of 1440p while mostly maintaining 60fps. Alan Wake Remastered features higher resolution textures, improved lighting and shadow effects as well as overhauled character models for which modern shader effects have been utilized. In the aforementioned video, it becomes quite clear that the visual jump from the Xbox 360 original to current next-gen consoles is quite significant. Alan Wake Remastered ( from US$29 on Amazon) launched last week on PC, PS4, PlayStation 5 and Xbox One and Series X/S consoles, and since gamers are mostly spending their hard-earned money for the graphical improvements of such a remaster, Digital Foundry has now put Alan Wake Remastered through its paces and released a tech review video of the new game. ![]()
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