Alan Wake

The XBOX 360 that was delayed for sooooooooo many years will disappear in 12 hours so grab it while you can.

One of the greatest game ever!

I thought the story and graphics were good but I found the main character very unlikable, as well as the rest of the cast. The switch to live actors in some of the story videos didn't seem to fit but most important, the game play is just average. The flashlight gimmick gets old quickly and it become a little on the boring side. Still a good game, don't get me wrong. But it's nothing spectacular.

For the first two chapters, I had some good fun. The characters were interesting, and the story was going somewhere. However I noticed something when going through gameplay in chapter three, I was bored. The gameplay and mechanics are fine, standard and working, but the game starts to get VERY tedious around chapter three. Because around then it's shown all it has to in terms of gameplay, go from point A to point B a kill monsters. And you do this A LOT, with nothing to really change it up, maybe a few easy puzzles here and there. It doesn't help that the fights are very easy, and ammo is everywhere, so I never felt the need to plan anything out, or try and preserve any of my items. The game didn't give me much incentive to finish it for the story either, as it gave away major plot points early on through casual exposition of all things. So in the end, the whole thing just felt like a chore to play, I didn't feel any satisfaction finishing the game, just glad that it was over. What I did enjoy were learning about each character through finding the pages of the manuscript, and just the characters in general

I've read the story is worth experiencing, but sadly the combat in the game is so difficult when multi enemies spawn all around me, I cannot make headway on the story.