- Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
- Release Date: May 18, 2010
- Also On: PC
- Summary:
- Developer: Remedy Entertainment
- Genre(s): Action Adventure
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 87 out of 100
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Mixed: 13 out of 100
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Negative: 0 out of 100
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100A brilliantly told story, excellent voice acting, and an atmosphere so unnerving you'll sleep with the lights on for a month. If only it came with a bottle of instant amnesia so that you could play it for the first time more than once.
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100Ultimately, Alan Wake is driven -- as is any good story -- by the impulse to see what happens next. It offers up a believable world, characters worth caring about, enjoyable combat and a narrative I wanted to follow.
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Alan Wake is ambitious, occasionally funny, and distinctly memorable; like I said before, I don't regret playing it at all. My abiding impression of the game, though, is of wasted potential. We've been waiting for the next great horror game since Silent Hill 2, and this could've been it.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 65 out of 78
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Mixed: 5 out of 78
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Negative: 8 out of 78
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