Alan Wake

Ultimately, Alan Wake is driven -- as is any good story -- by the impulse to see what happens next. It offers up a believable world, characters worth caring about, enjoyable combat and a narrative I wanted to follow.

Alan Wake doesn't revolutionize the video game medium, but it will definitely get inside gamers' heads.

It may not be a masterpiece, but Alan Wake is one of the best games we played on Xbox 360 in the last six months. Stephen King fans will love it.

A challenging and genuinely frightening experience...As a survival horror, Alan Wake succeeds admirably, and comes highly recommended. But as a self-proclaimed "psychological action thriller", it falls short of its ambition.

Alan Wake may not be the most innovative title in terms of game play, but it does serve up a solid playing experience.

In conclusion, Alan Wake delivers with an interesting and sturdy gaming experience, however for me, the whole experience seemed a little dated from the combat engine to certain gaming moments that we've seen it all before.

For a game five years in the making this is a disappointingly trivial and repetitive actioner.

As a fan of Twin Peaks and Stephen King novels, this game took me on a wild ride with its thrills and twists. Remedy really created something phenomenal with Alan Wake. The gameplay is very fun and the lighting is beautiful. Definetely play this game.

Alan Wake is a very Stephen Kingish and Twin Peaks like action/horror game that tells a story of a writer on holiday where things go very wrong. This isn't a game for everyone, but with its flaws I still enjoyed it very much. Gameplay in Alan wake is a mixed bag for me. Shooting feels fresh, you have to first point with your flashlight and then shoot the enemies but at the same time it's way too easy sometimes.There are only a couple of enemy types, I would have liked more. There are too some dodging mechanics, but it feels clunky and not good. But oh how it feels when you manage to make a good dodge. I think I would have liked combat a lot more if it were more challenging and had more variety. For example there are only 4 types of enemies, and I would like more different guns and gameplay mechanics. In the 2 dlc episodes, there is some environmental fighting, using gas pipes to blow up enemies' style. I would like that in the main game too. There is also too much combat, and this should have been a more horror game than action game. Don't come to this game expecting the best combat in video game history, but instead some okay, fun, sometimes feeling a little bit blank combat. This is in my opinion the worst area in Alan Wake. The environment is a mixed bag for me as well. I didn’t personally like any forest area in this game, it felt copy pasted and boring. But any other environment that wasn’t a forest, I really enjoyed. My favorite place was Bright Falls. Exploration is sometimes useful, a lot of the time i found myself in very odd places looking for something that isn’t there. I would like more things to cheer for exploring. The whole environment for this game is very good, matching the game's atmosphere even if I didn’t like it all the time The characters in this game were okay, nobody shined over others and they all felt pretty natural. Nothing good to say, but at the same time there isn’t any bad character. The character I liked most, was our protagonist, Alan Wake. There is just some charm in him, but I would like more comments on him from the events of the game while playing. The best thing about this game I would say are cutscenes. They were interesting, every time something happened to make the story forward. Pacing in this game feels odd in this game. It follows a show-like structure, and I didn't like the structure very much. Alan Wake consists of 6 episodes. I didn't like the first 3, it felt boring and uninteresting. It really clicked for me in episode 4 and it lasted all until the end. I played it for around 12 hours, so it isn't the longest game. I think it could have been a shorter game in my opinion, there is some filler in the game. But now to the best part about this game, the story that it tells. It's different from any other story game that I have played, and I liked it very much. The ending was great, and the journey to the ending was very good. You should definitely play this, if you respect some unique story with awesome telling and cutscenes. In the end, Alan Wake is a game that is carried by its strong story and atmosphere. If you like story games, and you don't get annoyed by some awful combat and repetitive environments, you should give it a try. 7/10

An sich macht das Spiel Spaß und die Story ist auch gut. Interessantes Gameplay das irgendwann etwas langweilig und anstrengend wird, da sich die Kämpfe einfach nur wiederholen.

Boring and ordinary gameplay, uninvolving, uninteresting generic convoluted survival plot, terrible writing, sub-par graphics, and cliched horror survival mechanics all come together to make Alan Wake.

This is an example of someone who has a decent story idea and then implements it so poorly with game design. Horrible camera, very annoying combat, graphics don't utilize any modern graphics enhancements (kind of caps out at mediocre 1080p-ish), and poor character control too. The atmosphere is good and the story is decent, but it definitely isn't worth the supreme annoyances from so many of the other parts of the game.