Alan wake shown at e3

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Finally! Can't wait to see it.
 
exclusive for 360 it seems,that means one year after for the pc?
 
it is a little confusing

I'm more concerned about splinter cell 5!!!!
 
Still too long to wait. Looks like it will be competing with Heavy Rain and I must say that the innovation edge goes to HR. This looks awesome, but looks like a slicker Silent Hill or some such. Same old controls, weapons, etc. Nothing new on the table it doesn't seems. I will still get it of course...for PC. :E
 
The gameplay demo during the MSFT pressco: click.

Runs choppy as hell. I am assuming its played on an Xbox and it is having a lot of trouble with the game, especially during heavy light effects.
 
I'm pretty underwhelmed. Cheesy voice acting, uninspired looking gameplay, oddly straight and powerful torch. I hope it's good, but was expecting much more.
 
Looks great although the frame rate sucked. There was way to much lag in that demo, hopefully the PC version will be optimised.
 
Shakermaker said:
The gameplay demo during the MSFT pressco: click.

Runs choppy as hell. I am assuming its played on an Xbox and it is having a lot of trouble with the game, especially during heavy light effects.
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It seems to be a problem with whatever was used to capture the footage. I watched them playing the demo live on a stream and it ran fine.
 
It's still a Vista Exclusive, so no buy for me.
 
This game is probably gonna be worth playing... assuming I get a game console, however I'm not that hyped..
 
Looks very cool, nice to see an original horror game finally
 
Hm, it looked like classic TPP horror game from what they showed. I expected something open-ended, since they showed the capabilities of the engine a few years ago and presented quite a big world it seemed.
 
Sedako said:
Is that a certainty or one of those release "goals"?
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Everything is a "goal" until a month beforehand. Thats just the way development works. Nobody can see the future, not even game developers.
 
Insano said:
Then go Windows 7 ;)

That is, I assume it's playable on that.
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Around the time Vista was launched, it was announced that Alan Wake would be a Vista exclusive. I expected the game to come out around that time. Now it's taken so long that a new operating system (Windows 7) will coincide with its release. heheh
 
Ok, that was awesome. Gimme a gameplay vid that runs better than during the MSFT pressco and I am convinced again that this will be a kick ass game.
 
Are they seriously still making this Vista exclusive? Jesus Christ, I thought that fad was over.
 
The gameplay looks awesome from what i have seen so far but everything else sucks. The voiceacting sucks for sure, the main chars lame its like they didnt even try. Hell, even the frikkin name of game/main charater sucks. Really how good can this possbily be.
 
That vid really set my hype meter back to zero. This went from must-buy to maybe I'll check out a demo one day.
 
Lucid said:
Are they seriously still making this Vista exclusive? Jesus Christ, I thought that fad was over.
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That's because the game is 2 years too late.

It's outdated, the "ground breaking" graphics and physics are nothing new any more.
 
Mutley said:
That's because the game is 2 years too late.
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I keep thinking that they were bounded to a Microsoft agreement about the Vista exclusive (the game runs on XB360, why not WinXP?), so they intentionally slowed down the project to wait for Vista to gain in popularity. At the time of the first announcement Vista had a very small market share. The exclusive looked like an economical suicide.
 
It looks pretty awesome. The lighting and physics engine look pretty boss, and the gameplay seems suited to the atmosphere. The setting, environment and characters look solid as well. I'm pretty sold on it, and will be avoiding any more trailers or info, because the story is clearly going to be a huge part of the game and I want to experience it untainted.
 
Alan Wakes voice acting and dialogue are great too.
 
It sure is pretty but I was disappointed by most other aspects. So far it seems a fairly generic scare-fest, which is not what I wanted from waiting so long. I thought this was going to be a more engaged Heavy Rain type of experience. For some reason I expected the game to be HUDless, going for the immersive cinema look. Oh well, I guess I was expecting a different type of game.
 
Looks like a fun game, is it third person view only? I'd rather play in first person. I know my brother would love this game as is, it's kinda like Dead Space in terms of gameplay.
 
Gunner said:
Looks like a fun game, is it third person view only? I'd rather play in first person. I know my brother would love this game as is, it's kinda like Dead Space in terms of gameplay.
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Not a fan of 3rd person either, but Remedy makes it work. They did with the Max Payne series.
 
Blackthorn said:
It sure is pretty but I was disappointed by most other aspects. So far it seems a fairly generic scare-fest, which is not what I wanted from waiting so long. I thought this was going to be a more engaged Heavy Rain type of experience. For some reason I expected the game to be HUDless, going for the immersive cinema look. Oh well, I guess I was expecting a different type of game.
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Thats what you get for making assumptions! Disappointment when its not what you expected!

I didnt expect a straight up horror game either though, but I had no idea what it was going to be really, so im not disappointed. And it doesnt really look generic I dont think.
 
Kotaku has a preview up here. Their final thoughts:

Alan Wake has the right mood: that something in its world is very wrong. The mechanics are promising, though potentially repetitive. As long as having to shoot enemies with light and then guns doesn't become tiresome, the game could play quite well. Whether it can present the intellectual and tonal sophistication that some fans have been hoping for is something we could not judge at E3, unfortunately. But those potential qualities could make Alan Wake transcend the pack of thrillers and horror games it's still among. We'll keep an eye on that angle, because, in the end, that's what could make or break Remedy's long-in-the-making game.
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Doesn't sound super positive. And there's no release date yet:

The game has been in development a long time but could be as much as a year from release.
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