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.

Such a unique game! The story is so fun, the soundtrack is so good a lot of the songs have been added to my playlist. The visuals are clean and the sound design is great. It has some really responsive gameplay for both movement and shooting. 10/10 from me!

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.

I wasn't really engaged in the story at first but I must admit that the story was very good. Unfortunately this game Lack of verity in almost everything. Everything looks almost the same. Same enemies, same locations, same weapons. Honestly graphic is dull and washout of any colors besides dark green (I guess a lot of Xbox360 era games have this issue) but... The ideas, music writing, characters and the fun in building the world around by developers ware amazing. Alan wake is not the best game ever but surely I will remember it for it's unconventional storytelling and world building.

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.