UPDATE: Please people, understand that what I am talking about, the game is not bad, the graphics is.
I am reviewing a game, and that is all, at the end of the day, it is you people that should decide for yourselves what you think about the game.
I put down two school days of my life for this game, in other words, 5th and 6th of April.
I didn't go to school to play through the game, each day 4 hr or so.
Today I finished the game.
Here what you will find is my third game review, this time I as a PS3 FANBOY (yes, I say FANBOY, I'm not ashamed of the fact and don't know it a bad thing, since I'm one of those that says the meaning of the word has been manipulated) will review Alan Wake a game made for Xbox 360.
I'm going to begin with this:
The hype that Alan Wake received could easily tear this game into pieces and make a horrible game out of it.
Now, fortunately this didn't happen, but it was close, and believe me, the hype can destroy a game, just ask Final Fantasy 13 and The Force Unleashed 2 and a couple of other games to see what I am talking about.
Alan Wake was so hyped that I still remember articles that came in from like 5 months before Its release comparing it with games like Heavy Rain and Uncharted 2 as the graphical beast that takes the graphic crown, to the articles that talked about how Alan Wake has this great story that allows you to feel the characters feelings and so on.
Now, let me say this, the hype didn't destroy the game because the game is in fact a good game, which is more than enough nowadays.
But nowhere close to what the hype articles stated.
First thing I noticed when I began the game was this horrible graphic, it was a shock to me, I was waiting for the graphical king of 360, but all I saw was a game with billions of graphical bugs and a graphic from last generation of pc games.
In fact this shock was so big that I don't even remember the first 30 minutes of my play through the game.
I just remember looking at the cut scenes thinking: "even the games from ps1 had better cut scenes." (ok, maybe a little bit exaggerated)
I mean, common, we are talking about a game with 5 years of development time.
How could the graphic turn so horrible?
But, playing through the game made me care less about the entirely 2d plants and leaves and the horrible bugs like a bottle of milk hanging in the sky e.t.c.
The game it self has a real horror survival game touch, and it makes your heart pound like crazy while playing through the levels where hordes of "Takens" just come without mercy, throwing all kinds of objects at you.
Well, after Graphics we come to Sound.
This game doesn't have a lot of music during the gameplay but the rest is pretty good.
Sound Is in fact well done in most of the parts, just the voice acting isn't very good, but after the annoying voice acting of Heavy Rain this feels pretty good.
Hearing environment around you tearing to pieces, trees falling, junk yard cars flying around hunting you, everything just felt great.
The sound was pretty strong.
Gameplay literally saved the game, Alan Wake has this great Gameplay, it is always about surviving and making it through the next check point in one piece, it is full of terrifying moments and surprises.
It makes you sit down and don't move anything else but your fingers.
controls is a little hard to get along with but you'll get used pretty fast, since you need to have full control on the controller to survive through the episodes.
Even horrible bugs that I saw couldn't destroy the gameplay for me.
The gameplay was really solid.
Now, putting aside the fact of having a great gameplay I must say this, Alan Wake is at best a mash-up, but in fact a copy, a well made copy that is.
Alan Wake is a mash-up/copy of movies like The Shining and Hitchcock's Birds and a good copy of Silent Hill.
I couldn't help it but to all the time expecting Cullens from Twilight appear in front of me, after all it was like Bright Falls was an exact copy of Forks, but well, unfortunately no Vampires for me.
going through the Nightmares that never ends and waking up from one nightmare into the next one was the typicality of Silent Hill.
Well, at least Alan Wake was a game that I could play through it without asking myself why am I doing this to myself, unlike the Silent Hill games.
Alan Wake IS by all means, a good game, but nothing more than that, not a superb Story, or great graphic.
But a fun experience that should be on your list of to be played games.
Kane_1371...out
Alan Wake 2 continues the writer's story, 13 years later.
Remedy has Alan Wake merch on sale, including a pretty blue thermos. Unfortunately, things haven’t gone according to plan, and many players who want a thermos find themselves without one, though it does appear that Remedy is attempting to fix things. Nevertheless, it has resulted in a lot of upset, illustrating just how much the thermos means to Alan Wake fans.
"I really, really, desperately wanted him to start it off."
The story borrowed HEAVILY from the King novel "The Dark Half" anyway. Figured there'd be some sort of lawsuit but seems King was in on and ok with it.
King is well know to be really chill with this kind of thing. And with official adaptations. It's cool and shitty. We have had so many low quality movies.
FAIL REVIEW! Graphics 6.5? FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL FAIL! You should never be given the opportunity to review games ever!
I also disagree with the graphics score. 6.5 is Deadly premonition standards. You're not being honest about foliage, as most of the plants in the game are all fully rendered and move when Alan moves through them...especially in the daytime.
Also, you didn't even mention the best part of Alan Wakes graphics and that's the lighting and the setting. You can't tell me you didn't gasp every time the camera panned out to give a full view of Bright Falls in the day, or the way creepy shadows bounced around in the night.
Every game can't have Uncharted graphics. The "must be top of the line, or fail" attitude towards graphics will have you disappointed in a lot of games.
Not a bad review, but you did really hammer away at the negatives and didn't spend nearly enough time balancing those negatives with positives. The review reads like a 7/10 game.
Whilst I find the overall score rewarded to be fair, your opinion of the graphics is pathetic. 6.5? Have you played the game?!
a 6.5 for graphics well I respect you opinion but I would give it alot more infact I did check my review for the score.
I kind of agree with the graphics score only because of how hyped the graphics were. We heard for years that this was supposed to be the best looking thing ever. But it turned out to be a 540p blur-fest. The atmosphere is GREAT, but the actual models & attention to detail where pretty average.
Here's an example:
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Look at the heating radiator in the lodge, it seriously looks like a PS1 model with about 25 polygons and no textures. Also, look at the poor job on the Bear's paws.
Seems that they spent a LOT of time on some things, and very little time on others. It's just a matter of whether or not little things like that bug you or not.