By Craig Pearson on February 15th, 2012 at 10:46 am.
Remedy’s sleepy writer sim Alan Wake is out on Steam in a day and a bit, after the lengthiest beta test we’ve ever experienced. As far as I can tell, it’s a perfectly accurate recreation of the life of a writer: just this morning, my breakfast was interrupted when I realised I had been sitting on my foot and that foot was now asleep possessed by a demon intent on enslaving the world to do its bidding. What does it want? It wants YOU to watch the launch trailer they’ve just released, or it’ll smite you with corns. I’ve embedded it below, to save your soles.
Anyone picking this up? I am looking forward to it, but I do wish there was an Alan Wake Typing of the Dead style game as well.
It’s out Feb 16th, fact fans.
Via GameRanx.
15/02/2012 at 10:55 Carolina says:
I enjoyed it very much on the 360 and I am definitely picking this up on Steam, because I didn’t get to play the two extra episodes back then.
15/02/2012 at 11:27 pants says:
Oh dang, hadn’t even thought of that! Absolutely loved this on 360, never played the episodes though, I refuse to buy things over xbox live. Can’t wait to give it a replay on PC.
Wait, it’s out tomorrow? What?
15/02/2012 at 11:50 Electricleash says:
Would certainly have bought it at the time, however following their pointing out that it will NEVER come out on PC, I decided to watch the whole thing through on youtube…
15/02/2012 at 12:12 djbriandamage says:
The PC version also has mouse and keyboard support as well as adjustable FOV. For a game that’s *never* coming out for PC they sure know what PC gamers love. I just hope we’re not expected to pay $50 or $60 for this already ageing game.
15/02/2012 at 19:16 wazups2x says:
@djbriandamage
It was already priced awhile ago.
It’s only $29.99 USD
15/02/2012 at 10:56 sneetch says:
Odd, no price on Steam, no pre-order nothing like that it’s as if we… we’re still asleep aren’t we!
*Screaming ghost flying straight at your head!*
Oh my! At least we’re awake now! Or are we…
15/02/2012 at 12:09 _PixelNinja says:
The price has been said to be ~$30.
15/02/2012 at 10:56 Stevostin says:
I’ve already seen this years ago, I think? Maybe not, but it certainly isn’t hugely impressive to me.
15/02/2012 at 11:27 Carter says:
Eh?
15/02/2012 at 11:33 hosndosn says:
So disappointed this turned out to be Max Payne with a flashlight. The early previews (before they ditched the PC version) showed a pretty amazing open world/exploration concept.
15/02/2012 at 11:44 Moni says:
Max Payne with shooting, and guns.
15/02/2012 at 14:09 Milos says:
Guns, but they shoot bullets.
15/02/2012 at 15:36 DocSeuss says:
They’d changed the open world nature of the game fairly early on. All we ever saw of the thing was a tech demo (there was no exploration concept, and the proper game actually facilitates some exploration)–which, by the way, the game still uses, as it has some of the largest, most detailed maps ever seen in a linear game. I’ve been lost on a couple of them because they’re so huge. Then you’ve got stuff like the lodge level, which does not suffer any noticeable drops in quality all the way across the lake and into the mountains.
The reason for the change is basically all story. A lot of the levels were paced in a linear fashion. Even levels that never made it into the game, like the burning sawmill, seemed to be planned linearly.
As it is, Max Payne with flashlights is fucking awesome. When isn’t Max Payne awesome, after all?
15/02/2012 at 18:12 DrGonzo says:
When he’s Mark Wahlberg.
15/02/2012 at 11:34 The First Door says:
While you wait, you can always watch the live action prequel, Bright Falls:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boyGPvfA5B4
Couldn’t find a version without all those annotations, sadly. Anyway, I quite enjoyed it when it was released on Xbox… even if it is a bit cyclical to have a TV mini-series based on a game base on Twin Peeks.
15/02/2012 at 12:34 Revisor says:
Thanks for the link. Also you can disable the annotations by clicking the bubble icon next to the quality icon. (A fact I also didn’t know until a few weeks ago when someone showed it to me. :) )
15/02/2012 at 12:49 The First Door says:
You’re welcome! I think it’s surprisingly good for what it is, and it links into the game pretty well too.
By the way, you’ve just made my day telling me about that button, a hug is totally in the post.
15/02/2012 at 22:45 exenter says:
You don’t know how to disable annotations? oh, wow
16/02/2012 at 10:05 The First Door says:
Mainly because I just don’t watch videos with annotations as they are almost always pointless and the button doesn’t appear when there aren’t any!
15/02/2012 at 11:55 xfxian says:
This game has such a great soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeSUvoY2oUk
Really looking forward to finally play it.
15/02/2012 at 12:27 Khemm says:
I think I’ll get it, despite the mixed reviews – but preferably the boxed version if I can get it somewhere. Shame about the forced installation through Steam, but I’ll stomach is somehow.
15/02/2012 at 12:49 Craig Pearson says:
No love for the “soles” pun?
:(
15/02/2012 at 12:52 fallingmagpie says:
Don’t be needy, Craig.
15/02/2012 at 13:07 HermitUK says:
I thought that line was a little fishy, myself.
15/02/2012 at 15:01 pauleyc says:
But at least kudos for the Futurama pun.
15/02/2012 at 19:28 Vampy says:
I thought it was a fairly bland footnote, personally.
15/02/2012 at 13:18 PC-GAMER-4LIFE says:
Uses Steamworks on PC for all versions. Lets hope Steam pricing is not messed up $=£ like it usually is!! Retail SE is only £30.83 Steam need to sell this for around £20 otherwise I will wait until 2nd March for retail which registers on Steam anyway.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Alan-Wake-Limited-PC-DVD/dp/B00741NABE/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1328625225&sr=1-1
15/02/2012 at 13:27 Igor Hardy says:
“Bright Balls” – a kind of unexpected name for a town in a horror game.