Alan Wake Official Thread (56K Go Away) 8.5 on GS Tomorrow?!!!!!!!!!!!

Alan Wake is the Latest game being developed by Remedy Entertainment.

It is being published by Microsoft only for the Xbox360.

It is being released On May 18th in the U.S.

And on May 14th in Europe

Regular Edition Box Art

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The Collectors edition.

It will Sell at Retail for $79.99

Inside with your purchase will be

Game Disc in box with unique art
Exclusive In-Game Audio Commentary and Hints by Remedy
The Alan Wake Files – a 144pg book that includes a short story written by Alan Wake and compiles the FBI dossiers investigating the events in Bright Falls, WA
Exclusive Audio Disc with Soundtrack and Musical Score
Game Add-on token redeemable on Xbox LIVE for the first Alan Wake add-on content pack
Exclusive Xbox disc with special content: Alan Wake Xbox Live Theme and Alan Wake Avatar for Xbox LIVE

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Alan Wake, a bestselling writer, hasn't managed to write anything in over two years. Now his wife, Alice, brings him to the idyllic small town of Bright Falls to recover his creative flow. When she vanishes without a trace, Wake finds himself trapped in a nightmare. Word by word, his latest work - a thriller he cannot even remember writing - is coming true before his eyes.
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The story will play out in an episodic format, with a television show presentation. Remedy has confirmed that Alan Wake is only the first season of a bigger story, opening the door for future sequels.

Light plays a significant role in gameplay and strategy. The enemies, called the Taken in the game, are sensitive to light, encouraging the player to take advantage of environmental light sources and placing significant emphasis on the flashlight as a primary weapon. Players also have the ability to set traps that illuminate when triggered, either damaging or temporarily immobilizing an enemy.They are then destroyed and turned into batteries.

Remedy also promised a free-roam, sandboxcity, similar to those seen in the Grand Theft Auto series. However, in an interview with Finnish magazine Pelaaja and British magazine Edge, this feature is stated to have been removed, with Remedy opting to focus on a compelling storyline over sandbox-gameplay.That being said, this path that the player is on is quite wide at times and all through the game there is a lot for the player to explore, but it's not a free-roaming sandbox, said Sam Lake of Remedy. Despite this on the official website for Alan Wake, when Sam Lake was questioned whether the game was free-roaming or not gave the answer We'll open more of the game world as the game progresses. The area is so large, that we want the players to become familiar with a smaller subset of the world, before we introduce new locations and new areas.. This has caused confusion amongst fans due to his prior statements that the game will not be a sand-box game. Whether it is or it isn't is yet to be fully clarified.

Alan Wake features a day/night time cycle. During the day, players may interact with other NPCs to find out more about the town of Bright Falls.

It seems the game will most likely not be open world

Announcing the impending Alan Wake as an open-world title back at E3 2005 was a mistake," developer Remedy freely admits. We're not even shy to say it.

Remedy is a humble group of people and we will say it was a mistake, head of franchise development Oskari Häkkinen told Joystiq in a recent interview. It was a tick-box back then, that was a trend. Open-world,free-roaming and sandbox was the way to go.

The studio tried to make the thriller work in an open-world setting and get the pacing right but when players were turning up to a love scene in a monster truck when they should be showing up in a Cadillac, he said,you know something's wrong. You know something is not working.

Remedy ended up throwing away about six months worth of work.

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Kotaku has said the same thing
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Teaser

Trailer 2

E3 2006

E3 2009 Wake Up Trailer

X10 Waking up from the nightmare

Interview Trailers

GC 09 Director Interview

GC 09 Sam Lake Interview

Buildng a Thriller Featurette

X 10 Cinematic Action Interview

TGS 09 Matias Myllyrinne Interview

E3 09 Interview

Gameplay Videos

E3 09 Press Confrence Gameplay Demo

E3 09 Confrence Gameplay

SDCC 09 Waking Nightmare gameplay (cam)

Exclusive Police Escape Gameplay I

Exclusive Police Gameplay II

Exclusive Opening Gameplay Part I

Exclusive Opening Gameplay II

Exclusive Opening Gameplay III

Exclusive Opening Gameplay IV

Alan Wake Wars

First 11 Minutes (If you dare!)

IGN 9.0

Gametrailers 8.6

1UP B+

Giant Bomb 4/5 stars

Eurogamer
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I'm going to go crazy, another Alan Wake Hype thread?

The MODERATOR's Already chose this one last month, March 12th 2010. It's a Huge OP, and a huge thread.

Alan Wake : The Hype Thread.

Well, my hype is AAA, I've said this now 100 times. I can't keep up anymore.

This probably won't be the last AW Hype Thread either, but kudos on the effort in the TC, you and the other poster from last month put a lot of effort in...but his thread was already stickied a month ago...

I know the score, this is SIMPLY NOT right and it really does suck to that other user. That user is NOT my friend, I don't know him, but I don't like seeing users getting treated like garbage because they aren't apart of my old union. (Watch as mac or another gufu buddy moderator deletes that ENTIRE other Alan Wake HYPE thread to remove the evidence).

I'm going to go crazy, another Alan Wake Hype thread?

Well, my hype is AAA, I've said this now 10 times. I can't keep up anymore.

SolidTy

AAA! Glad this thread was made in enough time to gauge legitimate hype. I see a 9.0 in this game's future, with emblems for Great Story, Great Voice Acting, Great Start, Great Soundtrack, Outstanding Visual Design, probably Technically Proficient Graphics, Tight Controls and Oh Snap! A-M if you need this spot let me know and I'll delete my post.Hahadouken

But thank you 30 days left to go!

AAA! A-M if you need this spot let me know and I'll delete my post.Hahadouken

He has a post right above yours he can edit, but that's pretty hardcore dedication.

It was already AAA Hyped anyways, but here was a SW Stickied Alan Wake thread from March 12th, and the OP was good in that one as well.

Still, I'm always a fan of hardwork, so props to all. :P

EDIT : Biased Moderater Musicalmac again supporting his comrades at GUUF over doing the right thing. He has done this before, and he will do it again. It's atrocious what this guy gets away with. They communicate on GUUF IRC, which I used to be apart of. That shame ended when I left in Late 2009 after becoming System Wars KING, a title a tiny few in there had issue with, including moderator troll musicalmac.

I think this one is a no brain-er where there is no way lems can say after the fact that A.W. wasn't a big hitter with legitimate AAA hype. :P

AAAE from me.

It's about time AM!

AAA all the way to the bank!

[QUOTE="Hahadouken"]AAA! A-M if you need this spot let me know and I'll delete my post.SolidTy

He has a post right above yours he can edit, but that's pretty hardcore dedication.

[QUOTE="SolidTy"]

[QUOTE="Hahadouken"]AAA! A-M if you need this spot let me know and I'll delete my post.Hahadouken

He has a post right above yours he can edit, but that's pretty hardcore dedication.

Yeah, although late, he (The above TC ) did put a lot of effort into this version of the Alan Wake Official Hype Thread. Nice to see OP with information. This is a nice AW thread, but so was the stickied one from last month. It's all so confusing. I feel bad for that other TC, but as long as we clean the clutter of SW.

I put a link above to the other thread, just in case people want to see the AAA hype there, and of course any information found in that OP. This TC did post in that other thread, so he did know about it. I guess he felt it wasn't a big enough OP, but this will be stickied hopefully.

does not look interesting, it reminds me in many ways to alone of the dark that still lies around unfinished at the second level lol.

This thread needs to be stickied methinksmgkennedy5

AAA. Great thread, I eagerly await the sticky!

This thread needs to be stickied methinksmgkennedy5

I made a post a few weeks back where I linked all the Alan Wake Officlal Hype threads...it's also possible a moderator will make their own.

Also, there is a massive Alan Wake thread like this that was stickied about a month ago, it's coming back to me.

Something needs to get stickied in any event.

Also, some of my posts are getting deleted when I call out obvious and known moderator troll tactics.

[QUOTE="mgkennedy5"]This thread needs to be stickied methinksmusicalmac

It has been. ;)

[QUOTE="musicalmac"][QUOTE="mgkennedy5"]This thread needs to be stickied methinksWasdie

It has been. ;)

my gosh my first sticky! I'm blushing :oops:

That dinosaur is giving me a seizure. Definitely should have an epilepsy warning on this thread. AAA hype from me

So...another official hype thread? No offence, this one looks official :P

I say AAA again

[QUOTE="mgkennedy5"]I believe the official hype is "AAA", if I'm not mistakenSolidTy

Yeah, it most certainly is, While I could find AW Hype threads proving that over and over, this one should suffice.

It was stickied last month, and it is a Huge AW hype thread.

It will be. ;)musicalmac

[QUOTE="SolidTy"]

[QUOTE="mgkennedy5"]I believe the official hype is "AAA", if I'm not mistakenAnimal-Mother

Yeah, it most certainly is, While I could find AW Hype threads proving that over and over, this one should suffice.

It was stickied last month, and it is a Huge AW hype thread.

And mine isn't huge. I put a lot of work into this if you don't have anything good to say don't say it at all man.

First of all, I didn't say your's wasn't huge, but I was talking about the tons of post in the other thread, this thread just started. Secondly, you posted in that other stickied Hype thread here. so you knew about it. You also can't tell people what they can and cannot say, I think that other TC put a lot of effort into his, and so much so, it was stickied. You knew about it, and you outdid him (props for that), but I feel bad for that other TC. He could have added to his OP.

Musicalmac is deleting posts and probably that previous HYPE thread. He works with Wasdie also from Gufu, HarlockJC from gufu, but mac from gufu is the big problem on GS boards. musicalmac is the new CaseyWegner. Years from now, people will be complaining about an abusive power hungry master moderator, and the primary complaints in SW will be due to musicalmac. I long for the day when he is removed from power. I don't mind conversing with him, but when things don't go his way, he deletes posts and will penalize users that don't fall in line. He's the forum equivelent to a dirty cop. Other mods that know his game laugh, but most don't understand he's a horrible moderator and a troll. He kisses the admins ass, so they don't look twice when multiple users come forward, which works out great for him. It's also why scores of users just don't bother anymore. There is no where to turn. These guys stick together, and when I was in there and I some of the things they did in SW wasn't fair, they didn't like it either.

My issue is that while this game will be good. A user created a HYPE thread for this game, the thread was even stickied. Now, a buddy of user mac, a user from the same union I was from, is being chosen over that other user. Animal mother is that user. He's from gufu, he posted in the other Alan Wake Hype thread, and Animal Mother in his passion decided to make a new HYPE thread. Neither thread's OPs are massive, but AM got the go ahead on IRC chat with moderators in gufu and the everything is going according to plan. It's favoritism, and mac knows it and he doesn't care. I'm the only one that will call him out on his BS today which is why he promised users over chat a few weeks ago to get me banned in any way possible. The guy is out of control. Correction, there are others that also speak out against him, but are silenced. Look below this post and watch as they get deleted.

The reason this post isn't deleted was a clever trick on my part.

Lets make sure we focus on Alan Wake, and not past hype threads.

Now that we've got that clear, Alan Wake looks much more interesting than I previously thought. It's on the radar.

Jeez Solid ... Let it go. You don't half preach.

On Topic It looks excellent, the gameplay however does not have me convinced, neither does the story (The tutorial was terrible)

For now i'm thinking it'll score an 8.0 Unless i'm wrong about the story and gameplay, then it could peak at 9.5

8.0 for now though.

Holy crap at that dinosaur...!

I hope this and reach will get me back on the 360!

I have 12 months gold going to waste. Stuck on PC Gaming.

Holy crap at that dinosaur...!

I hope this and reach will get me back on the 360!

I have 12 months gold going to waste. Stuck on PC Gaming.

thespywholied

I'm with you dude. I have't touch either of my consoles in a good while. Need a good title to get me back to gaming.

i voted AAAAAlan_Boring