Alan Wake

Yes it is a little bit scary., but nothing more. The torch requires constantly new batteries and without them you can not kill the ghosts so easily and ammo is never enough. 3-6 enemies appear in the forrest from nowhere at once and that sucks... cos the torch batteries do not last even 30 seconds...

Amazing graphics, horrible gameplay, and the story is a huge cliché.

The writing in the game isn't very good an is purposely a cliche of Twin peaks and other horror shows. It doesn't really have much of its own idenity. the consent narration is also a very annoying creative descison. The game also isn't really scary and has very limited enmey varity. The controls are really janky and the games camera is frusturating. level design is very linear and railroaded mostly having to do with this game orginally going to be open world then changed to be a linear game because of the 360s technology restrictions . The games combat really sucks and there seems to be only three or four different guns in the game. Also the game just feels poorly designed. I also was bored most of the time because the writing and Just the character of Alan Wake is bland and has little personality. The gunplay is probably some of the worst in any horror game I've played and this is coming from the devs that made max panye that made gunplay one of its main focus with bullet time. Alan Wake 2 looks 10 times better from the gameplay I've seen and its probably best to just skip this one and play the sequel as Alan wake 1 feels like a waste of time as its kinda boring.

The story is great, especially for someone who has previously played Control and wants to see the Bright Falls AWE 'first hand'. The gameplay is more fun than it has any right to be, not just the shooting, but even the driving, the cars handle nicely for a non-driving-focused game. Shooting enemies is ridiculously satisfying. The 'level design', if you can call it that, is abysmal. A frightening proportion of the game is just walking along nondescript completely linear forest paths fighting the same enemies over and over. The game uses the most tenuous of excuses to have the protagonist walk through the forest over and over. Alan himself even comments on this at one point. Even the grand finale, after Alan finds out what he needs to do and just has to go and do it, has an hour long slog of you driving/walking through the same old forest fighting the same old enemies before you can finally see the final cutscene. The devs clearly had a great story in mind, but were so dedicated to presenting it alternately as a book and as a TV show, they forgot about presenting it as a video game. The result is a whole lot of filler, hours spent walking between the locations relevant to the story, precious little time spent IN the locations relevant to the story. By the end I just wanted it to be over. 3 stars is harsh considering how great the story, graphics, and gameplay are. But all it needed to do to be a lot better was cut out some of the filler. tl;dr: A must-play for the story, but prepare yourself for a LOT of unnecessarily long repetitive hikes through the forest.

I do not particularly like this genre of game, but the story was excellent!