A fantastic Story,intense Gameplay,and creepy atmosphere,make Alan wake a Great game !
Warning: This review mite contain minor spoilers, I'll try my best not to spoil anything, but there still mite be very minor spoils.
Story: The Story in Alan Wake is the best part in the game, you may not be able to fully under-stand the story, its a open-end game. I don't want to say allot about it, because it will spoil it. But, Alan Wake is a writer, suffering from "writers block",Alan & his Wife ( Alice ) went on a vacation to Bright Fall's. A book Alan wrote is coming true, but Alan doesn't remember writing it.
That is as far as I can go, I don't want to ruin this fantastic story.
The little touches they put into this game's story is amazing. I would highly recommend you to explore this game, and try to lesson to every little sentence. It will help you under-stand the story more.
Game-play: The game-play is fun, and intense. Its fun to use light as you're Key weapon. Running threw the dark forest, with only a small flash-light and pistol, and having a Axe murder ( who is controlled bye a dark spirit ) chasing you, then vanishing in thin air, only to reappear right in front of you. You'll get crept out, turning around often to see if something is stalking you. You'll get so stressed out, and crept-out, that when you finally get to a "safe haven" (a bright light that the dark spirit wont come in) you'll never want to leave that area.
Game-play is fun enough to keep you hooked to the game. But part of the game-play is one of the minor down sides. you'll find you're self running threw the forest a good bit in the game. But there's still other places besides the forest you'll go threw.
( for those who don't know, you got to use light to take off a "dark shield" on you're foes, once that "shield" is off, you can kill them with you're gun (,pistol, hunting rife, shotgun)
Graphics: I would say this is the most graphic game on the Xbox 360.The lighting is done perfectly. Shadows from the light looks real. The Tree's come to life in the wind. With these great graphics, it gives you a very creepy atmosphere, and you'll come across some "murder scene's" that will make you creep to the edge of you're seat. The people you come across look well done too. But there is a few, bad face's. And there lips don't always match what they are saying. But overall this is a very graphic game. Well done !
Controls: The controls in this game is great, I never had a problem with them, they feel natural. And get the job done.
Sound: The voice acting is good, and the music soundtrack is great, and really sets the mood for the game.
Overall: This is a great game, something a 360 owner should never miss. This game wont make you scream you're lungs out, but there's many stuff that will make you jump.
The only real down side, is that this game is short, its longer than most games out these days. But still its short, only around 10-12 hours long. But I find there being allot of replay value, so you can go back threw and find lost pages of you're book, that will fill you in on the story more.
Now, the Pros & Cons.
Pro's.
- Fantastic Story.
- Action packed Game-play that will keep you hooked.
- Great music sound-track that really sets the mood for the game.
- Superb Graphics.
- Smooth controls.
Cons.
- Short story.
- Some repeating in game-play.
- Mite make you pee you're pants ( if you're easily scared )
And here is the overall scores.
Story. 10/10.
Game-play. 9/10.
Graphics. 9.5/10.
Controls. 10/10.
Sound. 9.5/10.
Length. 8/10.
Replay value - 8/10.
Overall. 9/10.
The short story, and repeating game-play is what took off the 10'th point. This is a solid game.
I highly recommend this game !