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Reactions: Microsoft’s “House Party 2012″ headlined by I Am Alive, Alan Wake
Before we move on to how out of touch Microsoft’s marketing people are (oh, there’s a trailer below that will blow your mind), let us first discuss the game featured in the above video–I Am Alive. The title’s development struggles have been well documented and there’s certainly reason for concern when we stop to consider that it shifted developers mid-development and transformed from a full-fledged retail game to a downloadable title. And that gameplay does look a little rough around the edges in the graphical department. But I can honestly say that Ubisoft Shanghai’s take on the post-apocalypse is one of my most anticipated games of the year. It’s just fundamentally different from nearly every other game on the market today, and in this humble writer’s hopes, has the potential to revolutionize video games’ take on the post-apocalypse in a very positive way. So dude: seriously, just buy it.
Author: Cody
Reactions: Alan Wake’s American Nightmare set for Q1 2012
“The middle of the first quarter of 2012,” specifically. And if the video below is any indication, then the core gameplay should be a lot more fun than its predecessor.
Author: CodyReactions: Alan Wake XBLA game, MGS: Rising, and more rumored for the Spike VGAs
It seems like Spike TV’s Video Game Awards are quickly becoming the biggest video game show this side of E3, what with Skyrim, Mass Effect 3, and more getting their official reveals there last year. And if Spike TV executive producer Geoff Keighley’s recent tweets are to be believed (and I see no reason why they shouldn’t be), this year’s show could be just as eventful.
Author: CodyReactions: New Alan Wake on the way
If you’ve got a hankering for more of one of InsaneBear’s worst reviewed games of 2010 (it certainly had some points of merit), then you might be interested to know that developer Remedy is hard at work on a new Alan Wake title…but not Alan Wake 2.
Author: CodyReactions: Alan Wake’s “The Writer” DLC due October 12th
Well, you all know that I didn’t particularly care for this game, but in the event that you liked it, this is the last piece of DLC for Alan Wake. 560 Microsoft Points will net you a lot of dutch angles and shining lights at floating words.
Author: CodyReview: Alan Wake
"Wake up, Alan. You slept past your release date."
Score: Meh
Difficulty played on: Normal
Time to beat: About 10 hours
Loved the most: Spectacular soundtrack.
Hated the most: The tedious repetition which burdens a game where everything looks and feels the same.
After years of delays pushed Alan Wake out of the public eye, Remedy (Max Payne franchise) finally got their act together and delivered one of the Xbox 360′s most anticipated exclusives in a year of several great exclusives. And given the unique premise of Alan Wake–we play as a writer who is whisked into the events of one of his own stories–the potential was there for something truly special. I would expect as much from the studio that unleashed “bullet time” on the world of video games. But unfortunately, video games are not books, and one cannot delay publication by several years without design choices showing their age. Alan Wake is a brutally linear game that fails miserably when it comes to merging narrative and gameplay. Worse yet, the gameplay amounts to one identical encounter after the other, with no variety of worth in the entire package. So after all these years of anticipation, Remedy’s latest title, while worth renting for the unique story, will likely fade into obscurity, not unlike the trashy pulp churned out by today’s best selling novelists.
Author: CodyReaction: Alan Wake and Mass Effect 2 DLC news
If you take a long enough break from melting darkness incarnate with your flashlight in Alan Wake and look at its DLC menu, you might notice that the game’s second, and more importantly, unannounced post-release pack, titled “The Writer,” is being advertised. The content looks to put the hard-boiled writer through some grueling trials of some sort, although the 800 Microsoft Points your wallet has to cough up is quite the trial in itself. It’s unclear when “The Writer” will be releasing, but Alan Wake‘s first post-release adventure, “The Signal,” should be coming out in a little over two months.
Author: CodyTrailers: Alan Wake “Wake Up” trailer
Hopefully we’ll get some real nice mind-bending psychological terror in this game.
Author: CodyTrailers: Thanks for the sales pitch, Alan Wake?
It is nice to get a clear idea of what the game’s all about without any spoilers or anything, but that video seems more like a sales pitch to publishers than an advertisement for consumers. I’m also pretty sure that they’re using the same narrator as the guy who’s been doing the Red Dead Redemption trailers, which are very similar in their documentary-like presentation. Considering RDR and Alan Wake have different publishers, then only explanation is that the narrator is an evil robot who’s taken over Rockstar San Diego and Remedy through the guise of a trailer narrator. The Rockstar spouse fiasco suddenly makes so much more sense!
Author: Cody
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