x360a writes: "Alan Wake was a personal highlight for me this year at E3. Not only is it a game that I was actually anticipating, but when I actually got chance to see it in action, boy was it impressive. Deep within the depths of the Microsoft booth at this year's show, Alan Wake's Lead Writer, Sam Lake, and Producer, Jyri Ranki, ran us through an extended walkthrough from the one that the majority will have seen at the Microsoft press conference. Alan isn't going over the cliff this time, we can assure you that much.
So as you probably know by now, Alan Wake is a bestselling writer whose been hit with a sudden case of writer's block. In order to get those creative juices flowing again, his wife Alice takes him out to Bright Falls, Washington, in order to help the struggling writer. Whilst in the idyllic town of Bright Falls, Alice somehow goes missing and the story that Wake doesn't remember writing is coming true before his very eyes. The plot's very Stephen King if you ask us and we love a bit of Stephen K..."