While sections can pause and go at times, the well-paced bread crumb trail mystery mixed with the shared-media presentation - this is a video game structured like a TV show about the events of a writer's manuscript packed with licensed music after all - all combine into an almost ethereal experience. In 2021 this can make the narrative sections boring or slow, but what keeps it from turning into a meandering mess is Sam Lake's distinct writing style. The overabundance of voice-over narration telling you where to go, prompts that draw your attention to events or areas of interest, audio logs, and slow walking sequences can make the story feel more like a lecture than an experience. The attempts at having a “cinematic” presentation with dramatic slow motion and the camera pulling away to show a threat behind you. In addition to Alan Wake Remastered containing all of the content found in the original release, including the two DLC episodes and the “making of” video commentary track, there is a new Remastered audio commentary Cauldron Lake is a special place.įinally, while the central mystery plot and story turns all still pack some sinister punch, Alan Wake Remastered highlights some of the 2010s more annoying gaming trends. Despite some diverse options, you get like environmental effects, flashbangs, and explosive flaregun shots, some fights can boil down to “aim light source at an enemy, break down the shield, pump full of lead, repeat.” On top of that, the (thankfully minimal) platforming sections can feel dodgy and imprecise at the best of times. While the game's central “fight with light” mechanic is used for some clever puzzle and scenario design, a lot of which still hold up really well, gunfights and arena fights can drag. This is where the game shows its age the most. The game is still chopped up into daytime sections where you interact with major characters and explore locations, followed by nighttime sections where you are running through the woods fighting for your life between safe-havens. This is still the story of bestselling author Alan Wake unraveling the mystery of his missing wife and the manuscript of a horror story with his name on it dreadfully coming true. Technical updates aside, Alan Wake Remastered is the same gameplay experience at its core from 2010. This can potentially be taken care of with updates and patches, but overall, Bright Falls and its inhabitants have never looked better. Also, while the game itself runs spectacularly, some of the cutscenes appear to be locked to a certain framerate and have some visual hiccups. Some supporting characters don't fully make it out of the uncanny valley - expressive faces but robotic movements - and there are a few spots of geography that stick out. There are a few spots that can feel undercooked. For all technical details on the game, please refer to Digital Foundry's tech review video that is embedded below.While sections can pause and go at times, the well-paced bread crumb trail mystery mixed with the shared-media presentation - this is a video game structured like a TV show about the events of a writer's manuscript packed with licensed music after all - all combine into an almost ethereal experience. Overall, Alan Wake Remastered is still a worthy remake of one of the great games of the Xbox 360 era. The game also lacks some modern features like HDR and raytracing support. It was already known since the official announcement that Alan Wake Remastered would include both DLCs The Writer and The Signal, but the standalone add-on Alan Wake's American Nightmare is unfortunately missing from the remaster. The PlayStation 5 version of Alan Wake Remastered appears to be dropping a few more frames here and there, but in comparison to the Xbox version there is no screen tearing thanks to activated V-Sync. On PS5 and Xbox Series X, the remaster is rendered at a resolution of 1440p while mostly maintaining 60fps. Alan Wake Remastered features higher resolution textures, improved lighting and shadow effects as well as overhauled character models for which modern shader effects have been utilized. In the aforementioned video, it becomes quite clear that the visual jump from the Xbox 360 original to current next-gen consoles is quite significant. Alan Wake Remastered ( from US$29 on Amazon) launched last week on PC, PS4, PlayStation 5 and Xbox One and Series X/S consoles, and since gamers are mostly spending their hard-earned money for the graphical improvements of such a remaster, Digital Foundry has now put Alan Wake Remastered through its paces and released a tech review video of the new game.
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