Brian has posted his review of Alan Wake for Xbox 360. Here is an excerpt:
Remedy, the makers of the ever popular Max Payne game, has finally brought another title to light 7 years later. Gone is the mobs and mafia from New York, and in comes a new location, Bright Falls. The controversy for this game started back at E3 when Remedy debuted it’s new engine showing off an amazing array of weather changes as well as night to dark open world exploration. Originally scaled to be on PC and Xbox 360, some things have changed, while others have remained the same.
This is a story centered on a fiction writer named Alan Wake, who is looking to get away from the day to day routine and take a vacation in the hidden Bright Falls community. Driving his way to rest and relaxation, his wife joins him as he heads into the woods and checks into a small village filled with locals and interesting characters only seen in psychological thrillers. No sooner than your first contact with the locals, your wife goes missing, and Alan Wake starts the hunt for kidnapper. Twists and turns in the plot will lead you through an interesting, sometimes complex, story line. While the game would be hard pressed to be compared to a title like Heavy Rain, you will find that the story is the appeal of this title similar to the direction of Quantum’s Heavy Rain. You are in for a ride of scares, humor and a serious story all wrapped around an environment that has yet to be seen on consoles this generation.
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